This week we finished up Unit 5 – The Exodus Out of Egypt and started Unit 6 – The Promised Land. We read about the Israelites building and worshipping the golden calf and talked about how silly it was that they would pray to something they had made. We also read about the spies going into the Promised Land and how they all were afraid of the people who lived there except for Joshua and Caleb.
Samuel finished memorizing Matthew 22:37 and then we started reviewing the verses that we have learned so far. I was surprised that he remembered most of them.
We finished reading The Adventures of Reddy Fox which Samuel was really excited about. Next week we will begin the next book in the series, The Adventures of Peter Cottontail.
For math, we’ve still been working on measuring. We’ve been measuring things using our feet, paces, and hand spans. We talked about how everyone’s hands and feet are different sizes so those are not good units of measurement to use.
We’ve also been working on the letter U this week. Samuel has been doing a great job with his writing. His reading is also going well and he only has a few more weeks of his current Hooked on Phonics workbook. Then he has one more to go to complete the series. He’s pretty excited about it and keeps counting how many stickers he has left to get on his reading chart.
Working on handwriting – not sure what’s going on with the face
Working on his Uu letter sheet
Measuring how many “feet” the couch is
Measuring using handspans
Making a golden calf out of playdoug
More handwriting
This was Samuel’s favorite thing we did this week. In science, we talked about the soil and the various layers in it. Then, we made “dirt” We used chocolate chips for the rocky layer…
Crushed graham crackers for the top soil…
And cereal for the humus layer which is made up of dead leaves and plant life
Samuel’s favorite part was eating it! He’s actually asked him to make him some “dirt” as a snack several times since then.
So excited to finish Reddy Fox 
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