Loose day

I decided to skip the math lesson planned for today (the one we skipped yesterday). I read ahead, and tomorrow's math lesson was a review of the same one, so I'll just do it all then. I had a choice to jump ahead to tomorrow's lesson (gaining ground on the school year) or to have a very light school day. I opted for the latter. Two reasons - 1) I'm planning on revamping our math lessons soon, so we'll probably already be finishing math very early this year and 2) I wanted to take advantage of the extra time to play outside. It's a beautiful day!

So we started with calendar work. Jimmy is becoming quite the expert! I'm going to have to look into what else we can do with the calendar to make it more challenging for him. I already know that he struggles with the higher numbers, so for now, we'll focus on maintaining what he already knows, counting higher numbers, and looking forward to future events.

Next, we worked on LofW - G. Jimmy & I repeated the memory verse 3 times, then he gave it a shot on his own (not too bad, just some stumbles over the new words: "preach" and "gospel"). I also asked him to recite the F verse. Then we looked at the letter chart to see what a G and g look like. He wrote 4 or 5 of each. His big G's looked pretty good... until he got lazy at the end. His little g's were very nice. We are still working on the circle-line (same problem he has with little a's), but all of his letters today were very readable. He is much more excited about handwriting now & he is a lot more confident.

Then... we played outside. Hey, PE is a school subject, right? =) We took a walk up our street, then played in the leaves in our front yard, then played with Caleb's Cosy Coupe, Jimmy's scooter, and my basketball hoop. I'd love for this to have tired them out enough to take a nice, loooong nap!

After a quick, warm lunch, I gave them both baths. We did our singing & rhythm lessons during their bath. The bath should also help their naps. Hey, a girl can dream!