Friday, March 19, 2010

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



Sunday, March 14, 2010

Samuel's Star Wars Party

Samuel had his birthday party on Saturday. He wanted a Star Wars party. I was able to find a Star Wars cake at Kroger and got plates, napkins, decorations, etc at Party City. I even found a Darth Vader pinata which he loved. Adam woke up on Saturday morning with a stomach bug so he wasn't able to come to the party. Luckily Mom, Dad, and Jennifer were here to help me get everything set up. We just had the party in the church fellowship hall and gym. It worked out great. The kids were able to run around and play and the adults were able to sit and talk (or play if they wanted). Here's a few pics. I can't put up too many because I'm wary of posting pics of other people's kids online. But here's some of Samuel, Noah, and Jack having fun.

The cake

Jack goofing off in the gym

Samuel opening gifts


Not sure what he was doing in this picture :)

The pinata!

Samuel giving it all he's got

Looking at all the candy he got afterwards

Noah's bag was full of candy

Jack looks like he had a good time



Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Happy 5th Birthday!

Monday was Samuel's 5th birthday! He is super excited to be 5 years old and says that he is definitely a big boy now. He is having a Star Wars party on Saturday, so we didn't do too much on Monday. I let him pick what he wanted for dinner and he chose waffles. Then we let him open his gifts from us and had a small cake.

Ignore the wrapping paper :) I thought I had birthday paper and when I went to start wrapping I was completely out so I just used what I had. Samuel didn't seem to mind!










Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Trip to the ER

Samuel had his first trip to the emergency room on Tuesday night. We went over to a friend's house on Tuesday afternoon for a playdate. We were getting ready to leave and he wanted to hug his friend Emma goodbye. As they were hugging, they lost their balance and fell. Samuel hit his head on the corner of a wooden stool when he fell. He had a pretty good size gash in the back of his head and it was bleeding quite a bit so we took him to the emergency room. He was such a big boy and didn't cry when the doctor cleaned it and then put in the staples. He has to go to the doctor in one week to have them removed.


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