Our store

We had fun in math today. After our daily calendar work (which Jimmy aced), we played with pretend store items. Yesterday, as I posted, we labeled 10 cans of food with price tags of 1-10 cents. Today, we pretended to buy them. Jimmy was given 10 cents and had to decide what he could buy with that. He had a lot of fun and was disappointed when math was over.

We read Clown of God again today, this time discussing people in need. The juggler in the story was an orphan. We talked about how God enjoyed the juggler's talent, but how God also loves when we help people in need. The juggler used his talent to make people happy, and, in the same way, we can use our talents to help people in need. And that makes God happy. We talked about how we could help people with specific needs, like a classmate in Sunday School who is crying (see if they'd like to share the toy we're using) or someone who is hungry (give them food).

Jimmy wrote a lot during handwriting today. He wrote several L & l's (our LotW), and then copied lake, LAKE, caleb, CALEB, jade, JADE, half, HALF, fig, and FIG. He really liked the chance to practice his big letters as well as his little letters. He worked on his own, occasionally showing us letters that he was particularly proud of writing. We reviewed this week's memory verse as he worked.