PreK - Week 24

This week we've continued on with Unit 4 - Jacob's Family in Egypt. We read about Joseph interpreting Pharoah's dreams and being made second in command of Egypt so he was able to help his family during the famine. We also read about baby Moses being saved by Pharoah's daughter. The day we read about Moses, I put a stuffed animal in a basket and hid it in various parts of the house. Samuel had fun pretending to be Pharoah's daughter walking along the "river" (the house) and finding Baby Moses.

We're still working on our memory verse: Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight. Samuel has most of it down already.

Reddy Fox is still getting into trouble. This week we found out that Farmer Brown's boy has had enough of Reddy Fox and has decided to hunt down Reddy Fox once and for all. Luckily Unc' Billy Possum heard Farmer Brown plotting and was able to get back to the forest in time to warn Granny Fox and Reddy Fox to stay out of the way of Farmer Brown's boy!

This was another review week in our language arts curriculum so we really didn't do much handwriting this week. Samuel is moving along in his Hooked on Phonics book and is getting excited about his sticker chart being almost to the top.

We started learning about patterns in math and we've had fun playing with legos and making different patterns and then Samuel will see if he can finish them. He does pretty good as long as there are only 2-3 colors in the pattern. If you get a longer pattern he has a hard time figuring it out, but we'll keep working on it.

One thing Samuel and I have been doing in school is a hymn study using the book Passion Hymns for a Kid's Heart (there's a whole series of these books). For each hymn, there's a devotional that explains what the hymn means and then Samuel and I have been taking about a week per verse of the hymn to learn it. We should average about one hymn a month. Anyway, the first hymn was All Glory, Laud, and Honor. After we've learned the hymn, I'm having Samuel do a notebook page where he writes the name of the hymn and then draws a picture of what he thinks its about. This hymn talks about Palm Sunday and how the people greeted Jesus as he came into Jerusalem. Samuel did a great job on his notebook page. If you can't tell, on the right, is Jesus riding the donkey. In the middle is a palm branch, and on the left is a person.

He really got into the drawing that day and drew this on the back of his paper. The person in the middle that is circled is Jesus in the tomb. There is an angel on top of his head. In the bottom right corner, you see the empty tomb and Jesus standing outside of it. Samuel wrote He has risen at the top all by himself.

Adding another sticker to his chart

Figuring out lego patterns