PreK - Week 19

This week we continued with Unit 2 - The People Sin. We read about Adam and Eve's sin, Cain and Abel, and Noah and the flood in history. We also continued working on Ephesians 6:1 as our memory verse this week.

For science, we made a boat out of aluminum foil and floated it in the sink. We added one penny at a time to see how many it could hold without sinking. Samuel's boat held 25 pennies, mine was able to hold 68 before sinking! Then we talked about how boats have to be built a certain way to be able to stay afloat and how God had told Noah exactly how to build the ark so that it could carry Noah, his family, and all the animals safely.

We continued reading about Reddy Fox and found out that his showing off got him into big trouble. He wasn't paying attention and got shot in the leg by Farmer Brown's boy and is now lame. Samuel drew a picture of Reddy Fox and his injured leg.

In math, Samuel has been learning to write the numbers 6-10. He's doing a pretty good job with most of them. He especially likes it when I let him practice on the dry-erase board.

In language arts, we started learning the letter C this week. Samuel is doing a great job with his handwriting and his reading. He is just a couple of weeks away from finishing up the 1st grade level of Hooked on Phonics. In the past couple of weeks he has really taken off and tries to read anything he sees -- food packages, words on signs, any books laying around, etc.

Practicing handwriting
Working on his C letter page

Math - Samuel had to write out certain numbers and then put the corresponding number of stickers next to them

Not sure what's going on in this picture but it cracks me up. The towel was the Garden of Eden and I gave Samuel various directions to follow like walk around the garden, dig outside the garden, be happy in the garden, etc

I think this was him digging or planting outside the garden

Working on Explode the Code workbook

More math - he was gluing the right amount of cheerio's on each number

Writing a sentence about Reddy Fox...

...and a picture of Reddy Fox. The orange thing around his neck is a bandana. Normally Samuel colors really well, but it looks like he scribbled brown all over this one. I asked him about it and he said that is because Reddy has lots of fur.

Making his boat...

...and it floats!