Katy and the Big Snow

We're reading Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton this week. Randy has braved some of the lessons, which the boys have loved. So let me catch you up.

Yesterday, we had school pretty late. The boys & I ran some errands in the morning, so school happened before bedtime. I led them in math (we repeated lesson #49 - introducing January & working with January's blue-blue-white-white color pattern in linking cubes) and Bible verse (just read the verse & accompanying story for the M verse). Then they went off to bed. Randy read Katy as their bedtime story & discussed responsibilities. In the book, Katy is a heavy duty snow plow who has to sit & wait until it is time for her to plow. When the big snowstorm comes, she digs out the city, not stopping until she is done, even when she gets a little tired. They also discussed the jobs of different people mentioned in the story (like the doctor & the fire fighters).

Today, we had school at our normal time - just before lunch. Jimmy went over his calendar work, then had a math evualation. He was given a pile of construction paper shapes & had to sort them 2 different ways. He chose to sort them by color (red, yellow, & purple) first, then by shape (circle, square, rectangle, and triangle). Then Jimmy wrote several big M's and little m's, which looked very nice. We reviewed the Bible verse 3 times. Then we read Katy. Today's FIAR activity was starting a weather chart. Jimmy looked out the window at the grey skies & proclaimed it "Sunny!" Sigh. We'll work on that. Meanwhile, we drew a big cloud in today's square for cloudy. It will be fun to record the weather throughout January.