TGIF

I'm going to make this quick (relatively speaking, that is) because I'm rushing to get done, get out of the house, and get the kids off to Grandma's. =)

We read Cranberry Thanksgiving, but I didn't have any follow up activited today. I pointed out the partial view picture (when Maggie peeks around a door), which we'll hopefully work on some time next week. I decided to do some light school next week (it was originally a week off from school in my calendar), so I'm loading up on crafts & music then.

For math, we did calendar work. We skipped yesterday, which was a shame because of the Thursday/twenty work, but I reviewed that with him today anyway. He's improving, but I should really avoid skipping Thursdays for a while. Might be tough next week...

I combined yesterday's scheduled math lesson with today's. I really wanted to get today's math lesson finished this week, since it was a test. So we quickly ran through yesterday's lesson - the introduction of "0." I wasn't sure how Jimmy would react, but he absorbed it very quickly. As the book warned, he initially tried to place the "0" after the "10." Once corrected, however, it was as if he's always known of 0. Then we moved on to the test. Let me tell you, it was a huge joke. Even Caleb passed the test with flying colors. I laid 4 shapes on the table - a rectange, a square, a circle, and a triangle. First, I pointed to each shape & asked what it was. Then I asked him to point to each shape as I named it. I know I sound like a broken record, but I really can't wait to adjust his math lessons to be more challenging.

We finished up with Bible verses (Jimmy has the verses & is working on the references), handwriting (I was a very picky reviewer, and those letters were good), and reading. Jimmy read he, his, has, her, hi, it, if, is, igloo, ice, and "if he has ice, it is an igloo" - I know it's a silly sentence, but it helped his confidence to have most of the words be what he had just read individually.

That's all for now! Time to get showered, load the car, and drive off into the sunset. (Ok, notsomuch the sunset part, but you get the idea...)