Kindergarten–Weeks 26, 27, 28

I’ve gotten a little behind with our weekly updates.  So, here’s what we’ve been doing for the past several weeks.  We finished up Unit 21 – The Age of Exploration, Unit 22 – The Reformation, and are halfway through Unit 23 – Settling America.

We have read about Balboa, Ponce de Leon, Pizzaro & the king of Peru, Martin Luther, John Calvin, settlers coming to Jamestown, and the Mayflower arriving in Plymouth…

We have learned Psalm 96:4-5, Acts 16:31, and are now working on Philippians 4:13…

We’ve been working on telling time to the hour and half hour in math.  Samuel’s getting really good at it!

We’re still reading about Chatterer the Squirrel and are loving all the mischief he is getting into.  Here are Samuel’s pages from the past couple of weeks.

We’ve also been having tons of fun with all the activities we’ve been doing.  Samuel and Daddy seeing building a replica of Panama & the Panama Canal…

Seeing what it would be like to sail around South America…

…and how much shorter it would be going through the canal.

Digging for Ponce de Leon’s cross & helmet…

Filling a room full of gold coins like Pizzaro had to do for the king of Peru…

After reading about Luther not eating, we learned about digestion.  Samuel “chewing” the crackers…

…digesting in the stomach…

…and walking down the intestinal track.

Painting a picture of Jamestown in the Spring…

Spear fishing like the Indians…

Kindergarten–Week 25

This was a fun week with LHFHG!  We finished up Unit 20 – The Spread of Christianity and started Unit 21 – The Age of Exploration. 

In history, we read about King Alfred, King Richard, the Indians, and Christopher Columbus.

Samuel kept working on handwriting.  He loves it when he finishes his lesson and gets to write a verse and decorate his page.

We finished learning Psalm 119:105 and are now working on Psalm 96:4-5.

In math we started working on telling time.  So far, we’ve learned general times like morning, afternoon, and evening.  We also started learning how to tell time to the hour.

We started a new book for story time – The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel.  We were immediately drawn into the story as it started out with Chatterer running for his life from Shadow the Weasel.  Samuel is really looking forward to finding out what happens.  He had to write 3 adjectives to describe himself and then draw a picture of himself.  He did a great job!

The highlight of Samuel’s week was the day we read about Indians.  We made a tabletop Indian village and he loved it!  It is now inhabited by numerous Lego men and Star Wars figurines.  He has been playing with it non-stop.

On Friday we went on a field trip with our homeschool group to Rainforest Adventures Zoo.  Samuel loved getting to see all the animals.  They mainly have snakes, lizards, birds, and other rainforest creatures, but they also had some larger animals outside.  We had a great time!

There is a snake in here, but you can’t see it.  Samuel is just really into all things Egyptian right now and when he saw the Egyptian decorations he told me I had to take his picture with it!

Kindergarten–Weeks 23 & 24

I forgot to do an update last week, so this one is actually for the last 2 weeks.  I also haven’t done a very good job of taking pictures.  Hopefully, I’ll do better next week.

The past two weeks we did Unit 19 – Christianity in the Roman Empire and got about halfway through Unit 20 – The Spread of Christianity.  We read about many different men who helped spread Christianity throughout the world including St. Valentine, Polycarp, Augustine, St. Patrick, Boniface, and Charles the Great. 

We’ve continued working on handwriting and explode the code.  Samuel loves it when he gets to the end of a handwriting lesson and gets to write his verse and color the page. 

In math, we continued working on addition and subtraction and actually finished that section.  We did a review of all we’ve learned so far, and starting next week we will be learning how to tell time.

Samuel is continuing to do a great job with his reading.  He is working through the Emerging Reader set from Heart of Dakota.  He also loves to go to the library and get books he can read himself.  Lately, he’s been enjoying Henry and Mudge and Nate the Great books.

Samuel’s verse for Unit 19 was John 3:16.  He was so excited that it was a verse he already knew.  For Unit 20, we are now working on Psalm 119:105.

We’ve enjoyed reading The Adventures of Grandfather Frog.  We were worried when he got caught by Farmer Brown’s boy, but he was able to escape with some help from some of his friends only to jump into more trouble getting trapped in a spring.  Samuel was a little anxious about how the book would end, but Grandfather Frog finally made it back home to the Smiling Pond.  We’re looking forward to starting The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel next week.