Leaf and let leaf

Yesterday, I wrote "Thanksgiving" on our math calendar. There are no numbers (we write the date in each day), so it's just the word in a square. I explained that I wrote it on Thanksgiving, when we'll have a big meal with our whole family. I wasn't sure, tho, if Jimmy would understand the concept of it being a finite number of days away. Today, he showed that he did understand - without prompting, he counted the number of days until Thanksgiving. =) And as yesterday, he did fabulously on the rest of the lesson. Spelling the different words (we spell the month & the day of the week) seems to be working to help him remember them. Today, Jimmy noticed that all of our months so far all end in "ber" & that the days of the week all end in "day." Smart cookie.

For our math activity, we made a bar graph. (The lesson we skipped was making a pictograph of the same thing.) I pulled out some family pictures, and Jimmy chose linking cubes to represent each person's hair color. To protect those in denial, I won't tell you how many of each color Jimmy graphed... LOL! As with all of our graphs, Jimmy identified the tallest column, the shortest column, and any columns that had the same number of blocks.

Then we reviewed all of the Bible verses so far. Jimmy flew through all of them, including last week's F verse (it's the first time he didn't stumble even a little). He very nearly has the G verse. He practiced his handwriting next - big G and little g. He's doing very well & he really likes the star system. I draw stars under the good letters, which gives him confidence but also shows him what letters are not good (and gives us an opportunity to talk about why they aren't good). Tomorrow, we'll add some review work to the handwriting lesson so he doesn't forget A-F.

I had originally planned to do art today, but the boys enjoyed being outside yesterday. So today, we had more PE. We took a walk, then the boys played with their scooter/Cozy Coupe & their balls. I took the opportunity to get the leaves out of the driveway. The boys still don't like the leaf blower, but at least they're no longer terrified. Caleb was even brave enough to "rescue" his Cozy Coupe from the Evil Leaf Blower of Doom.