Went to our friends, The Alley's, house for a visit:
Art, Science, Writing
Made alligators from construction paper with working jaws (Jackson is studying the letter A) and Miss Julie explained all about alligators.

Reading
Faith read Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb, by Perkins

Writing, Reading
Made patterns with lowercase b's and d's.

Science
DVD: In the Body: Organs, Health, & Nutrition, by Squibs

Played with friends this morning.

Reading, Science
Read The X-ray Picture of Your Body, by Watts

Art, Writing, Science, Reading
Created a book about My Five Senses. Faith cut out sentences and filled in the missing word, "I _____ with my eyes." Then she glued them to each page and drew a picture of the corresponding body part. Then she shared the book with her daddy.

Math, Writing, Computers
Computer Game, numerical order, recognizing numbers: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime/games/mend.shtml
Writing numbers with daddy
Played on http://www.pbskids.org/

Bible Study, Reading
Read the story of Jacob and Laban from Egermeier's Bible Story Book

Went to the library. Faith decided to learn about the body this week. We will also study the letter "B".

Reading, Science
Read Your Bellybutton, by Nanao. Learned about how belly buttons are made and all the different shapes and sizes of bellybuttons.

Read Body Detectives: A Book About the Five Senses, by Gelman. Learn the differences between the five senses and the basic science of how they communicate with the brain.

Read What Happens to a Hamburger, by Showers. Explains digestion beginning with chewing and ending with waste and energy.

Experiment 1: Dissolved sugar into water to show that things can break down small enough to be invisible to our eyes, but our tounges can still taste them.

Experiment 2: Chewed carrots 9, 10, & 30 times to show how chewing makes food smaller.

Faith read Money, Money, Honey Bunny, by Sadler

Science
DVD: Eyewitness Natural Disasters. 2004 Schlessinger Media.

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.