Little Hands Toward Heaven - Unit 15

Last week we finished Unit 15 which was about King Solomon. We started out by reading about how God gave Solomon wisdom and the story of the 2 mothers who fought over the baby. Solomon was able to tell who the true mother was because of the wisdom God gave him. We did an activity where we had different pairs of shes and Samuel had to try them on and tell me if they were too small, too large, or just right -- just like Solomon knew which mother was just right.

For our Bible activity, Samule had to follow directions to draw this picture. He drew a blue cloud to show Solomon's dream, a happy face with a red smile to represent Solomon, and a yellow rectangle at the bottom to show the temple that Solomon would build for God.

The second day we read about how Solomon build God's temple. This week we reviewed all of the letters we've learned. We were supposed to choose one to make out of masking tape and Samuel chose the letter G.

For our art activity, we built a temple out of marshmallows and toothpicks. Samuel did a great job on his with only a little help from me.

The next day we read about how the people praised God and thanked Him when the temple was finished. We talked about things that we are thankful for. Then Samuel made the letters I, J, K, & L with glitter. He loves using glitter even though it makes a huge mess for me!

I had started trying to teach Samuel to read with Hooked on Phonics several months ago. He did OK for the first few lessons, but then got really frustrated with it and would cry whenever I pulled the book out so I put it away for awhile. Now that we have gotten moved and settled, I decided to pull it back out again. Samuel has really caught on this time and loves learning to read! We have a chart that came with Hooked on Phonics and for each story he reads he gets a star. Here he was showing off his newest star!

Here are the first two books he was able to read. The other stories he's read have just been in the Hooked on Phonics guide so he was excited to read actual books!

The next day we read about how Solomon listened to his wives and began to worship idols. We talked about how that made God sad because we should only worship him. We worked on our phonics lesson next and Samuel was able to read another story and get a new star. Here he was putting it on the chart.

Samuel worked on his Letter Review page and did a great job matching up the upper and lower case letters and picking out the different letters I asked him to find in the words.