Saturday, August 28, 2010

Kindergarten – Week 6

This week we had a lot of fun finishing up Unit 8 – Israel’s First Kings and starting Unit 9 – The Time of the Prophets.  Samuel’s been doing a great job.  We’ve been doing Little Hearts at half speed since he was younger than the age range when we started and we were going to take 2 years to do it.  He’s been doing so well that I think in a few weeks I’m going to go ahead and bump him up to full speed and just plan on finishing it by the end of his Kindergarten year.  Anyway, here’s what we’ve been up to this week.

Reading about Solomon becoming king and building God’s temple and about Elijah and the prophets of Baal…

Learning to write the letter Q…                         (Sidenote: We are finally done with Sonlight LA K and I am so glad.  I bought it last year when I thought we were going to do Sonlight and stuck with it since I had it, but I am so glad to be done with it and on to something new.  It had a lot of busy work!)

08252010 (2) 08252010 (5) 08252010 (6) 08252010 (8) 08252010 (10) 08272010 (1)Finished learning Psalms 56:3…

Started learning our new memory verse, Philippians 2:14 – Do everything without finding fault or arguing…

Continued making progress with Hooked on Phonics.  Everyday Samuel counts to see how many stickers he has left to get before the end.  I think he’s down to 14…

Continued learning about tens and ones…

08252010 (12) 08252010 (13) 08252010 (15) 08252010 (16)Started learning number words for 11-20…

Continued practicing fine motor skills…

08262010 (5) 08262010 (6)Read more about Reddy Fox trying to catch Peter Rabbit.  The joke was on Reddy Fox though as he got attacked by a nest of hornets in the process…

Drew a picture of Solomon’s temple and then made it into a puzzle.  We talked about how the puzzle had to be put together correctly in order for the picture to look right just like Solomon had to build the temple according to God’s directions…

08252010 (17) 08252010 (19)Pretended to be a raven bringing bread to Elijah…

08272010 (4) 08272010 (8) 08272010 (10)Finished learning the hymn “Man of Sorrows”…

Made a page to add to his hymn notebook…

08272010 (2) 08272010 (3)Verse 5 says, “When He comes our glorious King…” Samuel says this is a picture of that verse.  Jesus is the guy with a blue face in the middle.  The squiggles at the top are lightening and the orange person at the top of the page is God watching Jesus go to earth.  The other people are bystanders.  The two blue/purple ones have their hands on their cheeks in astonishment and the brown guy is a roman soldier holding a spear. 

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Kindergarten – Week 5

This week we continued with Unit 8 – Israel’s First Kings. 

We read about David becoming king after Saul died, about David bringing the ark of the covenant back to Israel, and about Solomon becoming king and asking God for wisdom…

Learned to read and write the letter X…

08182010 (1) 08182010 (2) 08182010 (4) Continued memorizing Psalms 56:3 – When I am afraid, I will trust in You and talked about how David & Solomon trusted God…

Continued making great progress with Hooked on Phonics.  He is reading great and will be finished with HOP in about a month…

Learned about tens and ones in math…

08182010 (5) 08182010 (6) Practiced fine motor skills like cutting and pasting and thinking skills like sequencing…

08192010 (5) 08242010 (8) 08242010 (10) Continued reading The Adventures of Peter Cottontail and read how Reddy Fox tried to trick Peter Rabbit into getting eaten by playing dead…

08242010 (13) 08242010 (15) 08242010 (16) Learned about daytime and nighttime in science…

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Monday, August 16, 2010

Kindergarten – Week 4

This week we started a Unit 8 – Israel’s First Kings. 

We read about David anointing Samuel when he was only a boy and about David and Goliath…

Learned how to write the letter Z…

08102010 (1) 08102010 (4) 08102010 (8) 08102010 (10) 08122010 (2) 08142010 (2) 08142010 (4)Finished reading his 2nd chapter book for Hooked on Phonics and started the last workbook for the 2nd grade level…

08102010 (12)Learned about ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc) in math…

08102010 (16) 08112010 (4) 08112010 (6) 08112010 (10) 08122010 (6) Practiced fine motor skills…

08112010 (11) 08112010 (12)Got to be David and threw stones at Goliath…

08102010 (17) 08102010 (18) 08102010 (22) Started learning our new verse – Psalms 56:3 – When I am afraid I will trust in you.

Read about Saul’s hatred of David and David’s friendship with Jonathan…

Continued reading about Peter Rabbit’s adventures with Reddy Fox…

Began learning about tens & ones in math…

08142010 (5) 08142010 (8) 08142010 (9)Drew a self portrait and wrote about character traits we have inside to show that man looks on the outside, but God looks at the inside…

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