Physical Education
Gymnastics Class

Life Skills
Watched house fire videos with Daddy & Hope this morning. Learned about fire and safety from a firefighter perspective.

Art, Science
Spent some time outside looking for textures and making rubbings with pastels on paper. Watched leaves fall and examined the various bugs living in our grass (spittle bugs and their spittle egg piles).

Reading, History, Math
Read Johnny Appleseed, by Blair and Johnny Appleseed, by Gleiter and Thompson
Faith read My "A" Sound Box, by Moncure
Counted apples in Johnny Appleseed and used them in adding

Writing
Worksheets: Recognizing the letter "A", writing the letter "A", and locating items that begin with the letter "A"

Physical Education
Played with friends this morning.

Math
Worksheets, Following directions, adding numbers 1-20, recognizing numbers, top, middle, bottom.

Reading
Faith read We Play On A Rainy Day, by Medearis
Read Frog and Toad Are Friends, by Lobel
Read Arthur's Underwear, by Brown

Science
Hunted for worms in the backyard and studied their ability to burrow in the ground. Learned about how they live, what they eat, etc.

Studying The Letter A this week. Apples and Autumn.

Went to the library this morning and checked out books & movies. Faith and Hope colored pictures there and talked with the librarian.

Math, Writing, Art
Apple Seed Count: Traced numbers 1-6 on apple printouts. Cut up apples and removed seeds. Glued the appropriate number of seed to each apple and colored each apple.

Worksheet: Practice writing upper and lower case A.
Worksheet: Recognizing objects that begin with the "A" sound.
Worksheet: "A" maze.

Reading
Faith read page 10 of Frog and Toad Together, by Lobel
Read The Fire Cat, by Averill
Read poems from A Light in the Attic, by Silverstein

Art
Apple prints with paint.

Reading, Writing
Driveway chalk words. Learned "all" words (ie. fall, call, hall) and "a" words.

Reading, Science, Geography
Read Boas, Pythons, and Anacondas, by Ethan. Looked on the globe to see where they live in the world. Discussed the "equator" and warmth, and how seasons are opposite on opposite sides of the equator.

Art
Spiral Snake Craft: Drew spirals on green construction paper, glued google eyes and decorated the spirals and then cut them out to make coiled snakes to hang with string. They slowly spin when hung under a fan.

Snake color by letter worksheet.

Math
snake dot-to-dot

Computers, Math, Art
Played on http://www.noggin.com/ . (dot-to-dot, coloring, making a video sequence, etc.)

Reading
Faith read About Pets, by McKay
Read My "S" Sound Box, by Moncure

Physical Education
Went to play with friends this afternoon.

Physical Education

Gymnastics class

Life Skills, Physical Education
Went to the shooting range with Daddy. Learned to shoot a .22 rifle and gun safety.

Writing, Reading, Art
Worksheet: Letter S. Color the words yellow that begin with the same sound as "sun." Color the other words blue.

Math
Practice recognizing "problem numbers" like 12 & 21.

Reading, Science
Read Vipers, by Ethan. Learned about prey, predators, venom, fangs, camoflage, etc.

Reading, Writing
Worksheet: Faith read a story about a snake and then answered a question. She then copied the answer (sentence) onto the worksheet.

Played with friends at church this morning.

Reading, Science, Bible Study
Faith read pages 8-9 of Frog and Toad Together by Lobel
Read All About Rattlesnakes by Arnosky
Read selections from Egermeier's Bible Story Book
Picture book, Tuesday, by Wiesner

Art
Faith drew pictures of rattlesnakes using new mediums, oil pastels and pastel pencils

Writing, Reading
Took turns reading and writing words on the driveway with sidewalk chalk

Computer Skills
Played by herself on http://www.noggin.com/

Faith decided she wanted to learn about snakes this week. Therefore, we will review the letter S as we study snakes.

Reading, Science
We went to the library and read a book about different kinds of snakes and checked out many other books.
Read Cobras, by Ethan

Art, Science
Faith invented her own craft to do: we picked red, yellow and green leaves and stuck them onto sticks making patterns like snakes. We had learned that many animals in nature that have red and yellow coloring are actually poisonous.

Inside, we used play dough to create our own cobra snakes.

Physical Education
Went on a snake hunt with Daddy. Did not find any snakes, but learned about how and where they like to live near our home.

Math
Practiced addition 1-20 with Daddy. Used the computer to play math games online.

Writing, Math, Art
Learned about the Letter V this week, so we did an introduction to Vincent Van Gogh. I showed Faith his famous "Starry Night" painting and we discussed colors and how it looks from far away and close up. Then we viewed one of his "Sunflowers" paintings and Faith filled out a worksheet on it. Counting flowers. Identifying colors. Identifying "V" objects, such as the vase in the picture and how he signed his name "Vincent" on the vase. Then we did a craft by glueing seeds, beans, and pasta on top of a printout of the sunflowers painting.

Reading, Bible Study
Read John 10:1-18 The Shepherd and His Flock. The Letter V is for Voice. The sheep know the shepherd's voice, and who is the shepherd? Jesus. And how do we know his voice? By reading the Bible.

Reading, Writing, Art
Worksheet: V is for Van. Following directions for coloring a puzzle by recognizing words. Write the word "van."

Faith read Frog and Toad Together by Lobel.

Wrote words on the driveway with chalk. Taking turns, I would write a word for Faith to read and then Faith would write a word for me to read.

Math
Played online games covering addition, number recognition, doubling numbers, counting, and memory
http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/default.htm
and here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime/games/index.shtml

Reading, Social Studies
Read Stories From China by Pirotta

Writing
Faith addressed and mailed her letter to penpal, Caleb.

Reading
Lizzy's Ups and Downs by Harper
Nora's Room by Harper
The Three Grumpies by Wight

Life Skills
When reading The Three Grumpies, we had a discussion about how the character conquered being grumpy. Not with more grumpies, but with choosing to smile and change the way she reacts to them!

Physical Education
Played at the gym.

Reading
Read poems from A Light In The Attic by Silverstein
Faith read A Whisper Is Quiet by Lunn and Happy Days With Our Friends by Montgomery & Bauer

Life Skills
Baked cookies and decorated them

Writing, Art
Worksheet: The color purple
Worksheet: Find and color 4 leaves puzzle
Worksheet: Write the letter that begins each picture word

Reading, Science, Geography
Read Volcanoes: Mountains That Blow Their Tops by Nirgiotis

Science
Invited some friends over to help us build a volcano experiment. We made a sand/water mountain with a bottle inside of it. The kids measured and mixed flour and baking soda in the bottle and then added red wine vinegar to it. It foamed up an flowed down the mountain like a volcano!

Reading
Faith read Selfish Sophie by Kelleher

Life Skills, Math, Science
Baked bread together. Faith helped measure and add ingredients.

Reading, Art, Science
Went to the "Big" Library and read books and checked out books and looked at art and crafts on the walls.
Read Eyewitness Books: Volcanoes and Earthquakes

Writing
Worksheet: The Letter V & The Letter U
Worksheet: Fill in the Blank with a word
Practiced writing numbers 1-10
Practiced writing uppercase alphabet

Science, Physical Education
Went butterfly hunting. Brought the camera and walked around the neighborhood snapping pictures of flowers (what butterflies eat) and mushrooms (where butterflies sit) and of course, butterflies! Faith loves taking pictures.

Reading
Faith read Go Dog, Go!
We read Eyewitness Books: Archeology by McIntosh, A Butterfly's Life by Burke, Insects Up Close by Martin

Science, Art
Learned about butterfly life cycle from the internet and colored a picture of each stage. Talked about how they see (with many lenses) and how their life cycle is different from a dragonfly.

Writing
Worksheet: The Letter Y
Began writing a letter to penpal, Caleb.

Art
Drew a picture for Caleb.

Math
Played Chutes and Ladders.

Reading
Faith read Down on the Farm by Lascaro

Reading
Read poetry, Where the Sidewalk Ends by Silverstien
Faith read Put Me In the Zoo by Lopshire

Math
Adding numbers 1-10 using a computer game http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/drills/add10.htm
Practiced adding using the "dot" system with Seth

Writing, Art
Wrote her report on Mexico. Colored a picture of what she saw in Mexico. Created a cover and put together all of the elements of her Mexico report that she had worked on before vacation.

Art
Free coloring time using multimedia.