Kindergarten–Week 16

This week we finished up Unit 13 – Jesus’ Miracles and started on Unit 14 – Jesus Teaches Others.  We had a youth trip last weekend and Samuel stayed with Grandma and Gramps so we did half a week last week before he left, and then finished up this week before Thanksgiving.

We read about Jesus feeding the 5000, walking on water, the disciples seeing Jesus transfigured on the mountain, and about Jesus and the little children…

Samuel continued making progress in handwriting and his explode the code workbooks.  His writing has improved greatly since the beginning of the school year.  He even took it upon himself to make name cards to decorate our Thanksgiving table this year.  He started to make menus too, but gave up after only making one.  So Daddy and Nana made the rest…

Samuel finished learning Matthew 5:16…

and began learning Matthew 7:12 – In everything do to others what you would want them to do to you.  This is what is written in the Law and in the Prophets.

Samuel has been doing a great job reading.  He earned another free pizza this month through the Book-It program and was very proud of himself…

He is still working on subtraction in math.  He had fun pretending to “shop” and figuring out how many items were left in the store…

We are both enjoying reading Danny Meadow Mouse for story time.  We read about Peter Rabbit leaving the old Briar Patch to visit the peach orchard, and Samuel drew a picture of somewhere he had been – the movie theater…

Samuel had a lot of fun making bread after reading about Jesus feeding the 5000.  I forgot to get pictures of the finished product, but we all enjoyed eating it…

He also enjoyed making a picture of the disciples’ boat in the storm.  We used glue to make waves.  When they dried, you could feel the waves as well as see them…

A Trip to the Zoo

Today, the zoo had free admission with a donation to one of their featured charities.  One of them was a food pantry so we got some canned goods out of the pantry and took a trip to the zoo.  We have been debating whether or not to get season passes for awhile, but since neither of us had ever been before we didn’t know if it would be worth it to spend the money or not.  After today’s trips, I think we’re leaning towards getting passes after the first of the year.  With today being free, it was extremely crowded, but we still managed to see lots of animals and Samuel had a great time.  Here’s a few pics from our day.

Scarlet Macaws

a baby camel

elephants

zebra

giraffe

a couple of monkeys

This is a momma chimp carrying her baby.  I don’t know if you can see the baby or not, but it’s got it’s legs wrapped around her.

Here’s the baby running to the momma after she put him down

4 month old Red Pandas

Samuel seeing if his arms are as long as a condor’s

Rhinos

Kindergarten–Week 15

This week we finished the last day in Unit 12 and started Unit 13 – Jesus’ Miracles.  We read about Jesus and the woman at the well, the paralyzed man lowered through the roof to Jesus to be healed, Jesus calming the storm, and raising Jairus’ daughter from the dead…

Continued moving forward in handwriting and Explode the Code.  He started ETC Book 2 this week…

Started learning Matthew 5:16 – “In the same way let your light shine before others.  Then they will see the good things you do.  And they will praise your Father who is in heaven”  We played “basketball” one day and for each goal Samuel had to say his verse…

Continued working on subtraction in math…

Continued working on fine motor skills like coloring, cutting, and pasting with our rod & staff workbooks…

Had fun recreating the story of the paralyzed man being lowered through the roof and healed by Jesus with Legos…

Learned about surface tension and how the “skin” on water holds droplets together and allows boats to float.  We made a boat with Jesus and the disciples and recreated a “storm”…

Karate

Samuel has been begging to take karate for over a year now.  We had told him he had to wait till soccer was over because we were only going to let him do one activity at a time.  We finally signed him up in September and he is loving it!  He asks me every morning if he has karate that night.  Several friends from church take karate at the same place also.  It is Christian owned and they have open and close in prayer and have a short devotional in the middle.  They also focus a lot on teaching respect and manners.  I finally remembered to take the camera with me and got a few pictures of him.

Practicing his roll

Stretching before class.  He’s the one on the left with his legs in the air

Bowing at the start of class.  He’s on the far left again.

Running to warm up

Doing push-ups…sort of

Getting ready to practice his kicks

Roundhouse kick

Side kick

Sparring.  He was supposed to be practicing getting out of grabs but also trying to push her off the mat

Now he has to beat Sensei

Huddling up to pray at the end of class

We didn’t know Samuel would be earning his second stripe that night.  He was very excited!  One more stripe and he gets to hang his yellow belt!