OLD HOMESCHOOLERS NEVER DIE . . . THEY JUST WRITE CURRICULUM


"Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew,
like showers on new grass,
like abundant rain on tender plants."

Deuteronomy 32:2

Courses of Study

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To date, I have courses of study completed for kindergarten through fourth grades.

Newsletter Articles

In 2013 the Lord started me producing a newsletter for the homeschool group we are a part of. Every other month I write an article on a topic the Lord has put on my heart. I've decided to add these articles to this blog. I hope you will find encouragement through some of my ramblings. You can click on the label "Newsletter" to find the articles.

Saturday, May 28

Little House in the Big Woods

It took us some time to read this first book of the series by Laura Ingalls Wilder because I only read 2 or 3 chapters a week. We have read many of the "My First Little House Books" so there were chapters that were familiar to K., and she enjoyed those chapters the most. At this point, K. wasn't really interested in it, so I think I'll wait 6 months or a year and try again.

Kindergarten, Book Study, Week 18

Our Book Study was The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. Seuss. Monday I read the entire book to K. Tuesday I read the first half again, Wednesday I finished the book. Thursday and Friday I did the same thing. Here are activities to go with the book. Most of them are from Games with Books.
  • Talk about Courage
    • Bartholomew was courageous
For a moment Bartholomew was terrible frightened. "Still," he thought to himself, "the King can do nothing dreadful to punish me, because I really haven't done anything wrong. it would be cowardly to feel afraid."
  • Vocabulary Words -- these are the words we looked up in the dictionary. Your child might know these, but have other words that need explanation or definitions.
    • Impudence/impudent
    • Fury
    • Trickster
    • Gutter
    • Turret
  • How Much Is 500, Anyway? -- this activity gives your child practice counting by 10s and an introduction to our base 10 number system
    • You'll Need: 500 pennies, 10 paper cups or empty yogurt containers, 5 zipper style plastic bags
      • You can go to the bank and buy 500 pennies, or if you want the activity to last a while, just dump out your purse and your husband's pockets every few days.
    • Tell your child she is going to collect 500 pennies and when the collection is complete, she can spend the money any way she wants.
    • In order to know how many pennies have been collected, have your child put 10 pennies in each cup (they can be stacked).
    • When each cup is full (count by 10s) they will have 100 pennies.
    • The 100 pennies go into a plastic bag, and your child starts filling the cups again.
  • Make a Hat -- this is a very simple hat that even a 5 year old can easily fold. We both made a hat, sitting side by side, and following the instructions, K. was able to fold her own.
    • Take an 18" square of newsprint
    • Fold it in half into a triangle
    • Fold in in half again, making a smaller triangle
    • Lay the triangle so the base is on the bottom
    • One side, or leg, of the triangle is closed, the other is open
    • Use transparent tape to seal the open side
    • The base of the triangle has 4 layers of paper, pull the front 2 layers away from the back 2 layers, and there is your hat.
    • Decorate your hat!
  • Yeoman of the Bowmen -- this is a fun game and you can use tally marks to keep score, and it is good for hand and eye coordination
    • You'll Need: plastic caps from soda or water bottles, empty yogurt container, feather and tape (optional)
    • The yogurt container is the "hat". You can cover it with paper and decorate it, we just taped a feather to it.
    • The bottle caps are the "arrows".
    • Place the "hat" at a certain point on the table (or floor if you prefer)
    • Mark the place for the "arrows" to be "shot" from (2 feet away - if your child is really good at this you can increase the distance)
    • Take turns being the Yeoman of the Bowmen and flicking or pushing the "arrow", trying to hit the "hat"
    • We played games of 10 turns each, the winner having the most hits. But you could also play until one person has 6 (or any designated number) points.
    • Here K. is pushing her arrow. We had fun wearing the hats we made.
  •  Instead of a Sword
    • In the book, Sir Alaric "wore in his belt, instead of a sword, a long silver ruler." and Sir Snipps "Instead of a sword, he wore at his side a large pair of scissors."
    • Talk about why a records keeper would need a ruler and why a hat maker would need scissors.
    • Then ask about other professions, "What would a house builder have at his side?"
    • If your child can think of professions, let them ask you.
    • We got some pretty interesting ones, such as: zoo keeper, baker, clown, cashier, banker, teacher, king, gardener, fireman, cowboy, etc.
    • I also asked, "What would Daddy have at his side?" silence "Think about what he does." K.'s answer: a trophy
We also reviewed our memory verses this week.

Saturday, May 21

Kindergarten, Bible, Week 17

This week we:
  • Memorized Psalm 139:15
  • Read stories 75 - 83 in Picture Story Bible
  • Other books and stories we read:
    • You Are Special
    • Mrs. R-P and the Treasure Hunt
    • Mrs. R-P and the Empty Nest
    • Monkey Chasers of Lisuland from Other Lands
  • Prayer
  • Song: How Great Thou Art

Kindergarten, Writing, Week 17

Monday I introduced the lower case letters u and q. K. practiced one line of each letter each day.

Small Muscle Development:
  • Tuesday we made a Color Collage
    • K. picked the color pink.
    • We looked through Oriental Trading catalogs and cut out pink things
    • We glued them on a piece of paper

Story Development:
  • Wednesday we played Halting Stories from Games for Writing
    • The reasoning behind this game is that sometimes when you start writing a sentence you get bogged down with spelling a word or something else, and by the time you are near the end of the sentence you have forgotten what you wanted to say.
  • How to Play:
    • Your child starts telling a story -- any story, it can be one they make up or retelling one they know.
    • A few words into the story you say "Halt", they have to stop until you say "Go". Then they have to pick the story up where they left off.
    • You continue doing this throughout the story.
    • Then switch roles.
  • K. really likes this game and we've been playing it in the car when we pick us S. from the train.
Writing Practice:
  • Friday our activity was Word by Word from Games for Writing.
    • This is a fun way to encourage your child to practice writing.
  • How to Play:
    • You'll need a title for your story and a spinner (we used one that has the numbers 2, 3, 4, 5).
    • The story title should tell what the story is going to be about. I chose "Lost in the Woods" for our story.
    • Have your child flick the spinner. Whatever number they land on, is the number of words they must write, no more, no less.
    • After they have written their words, then it is your turn to flick the spinner and write.
    • We were able to talk about the first letter of a sentence being capitalized.
    • We also talked about staying on the subject.
    • Below is a picture of what one side of our page looked like. You can see that she needs practice keeping her letters where they belong.
    • Here is the story. K.'s parts are italicized.
A boy was lost in the big dark scary woods. A bear came lumbering through the woods. But goods are spread all over the ground. He was hungry and thirsty. The boy had food. He had learned to share. The boy had water to drink. He shared with the bear food and water. Bear loved the food and took the boy home. The End

Kindergarten, Reading, Week 17

Monday through Thursday we read from our textbook.
  • Ask questions using the Four Levels of Questioning and Comprehension
  • The genres were:
    • informational article
    • newspaper article
      • after reading the article we found the Who, What, Why, Where, When
    • "based on true story"
      • the true story was the newspaper article
      • we talked about how they gave the same information, but the story had more information and was more fun to read
Friday we did an activity from Games for Reading
  • Set the Table -- this game helps your child visualize accurately
    • Preparation: take 2 paper bags and put 10 identical articles in each bag. Some that we had were: toilet paper roll, crayon, block, plastic knife, chenille wire, etc.
    • Take 3 or 4 things out of your bag and set them a certain way on the table.
    • Then your child takes the same articles out of their bag and makes theirs look just like yours.
    • Then switch and let your child do it first.
    • As your child gets better, make the game harder by adding more pieces.

Kindergarten, Math, Week 17

Monday we worked on Numeration
  • K. wrote the numbers 41 - 60
Tuesday we worked on Counting
  • We counted by 10s to 100
    • we did it with a clapping game
    • we also used 10 dimes
Wednesday we worked on Numeration
  • K. wrote the numbers 61 - 80
Thursday we worked on Counting
  • We counted by 5s to 50, and by 10s to 100
    • We used the buttons on the wires as counting tools
Friday we worked on Numeration
  • K. wrote the numbers 81 - 100

Kindergarten, History, Week 17

Monday I read chapter 13 of Child's History. Item to note:
  • Phoenician people invented the alphabet on which ours is based
  • Phoenicians were great business people
  • They traveled in boats to trade their goods
Tuesday
  • We looked at Ox, House, Stick
  • I didn't push it too much, as much of it is over a kindergartner's interest level, but it is the simplest book on the subject that I've found.
Wednesday
  • I read the book of Ruth
Thursday
  • Ancient World, pages 40 and 41
Friday
  • We worked on our time line

Kindergarten, Science, Week 17

This week we were supposed to identify one tree every day, Monday through Thursday, but the week started out cold and rainy.

Monday
  • We used the binoculars and looked out our windows at trees
  • We counted how many palm trees we could see
Tuesday
  • We read A Tree is a Plant and From Seed to Pumpkin again
  • We looked one last time at some of our experiments
Wednesday
  • We used the binoculars again and identified a cedar tree in our neighbor's yard
Thursday
  • We went to a park to identify trees, but couldn't find any that they had in our book
  • There were four kinds that we had already identified, so we reviewed them
Friday
  • We cut out pictures of plants and glued them on our "3"

Sunday, May 15

Kindergarten, Bible, Week 16

This week we:
  • Memorized Psalm 139:14
  • On Wednesday I introduced Catechism #8: Why ought you to glorify God? I ought to glorify God because He made me and takes care of me. Read Psalms 117:1-2; 146:5-10
  • Read stories 67 - 74 in Picture Story Bible.
  • Other books and stories we read:
    • Sylvester the Three-Spined Stickleback
    • Red Boots from Other Lands
    • Who Holds the Brush from Short and Sweet
    • Mrs. Rosey Posey and the Treasure Hunt
    • Just in Case You Ever Wonder
  • Prayer
  • Song: How Great Thou Art

Kindergarten, Writing, Week 16

Monday I introduced the lower case letters o and p. K. practiced one line of each letter each day.

Small Muscle Development:
  • Tuesday K. glued shapes on paper to make a picture.
    • I had a bunch of shapes cut out of colored and decorative papers
    • The last time we did this, I didn't think she really understood what I wanted her to do, so this time I made a picture first and showed it to her. Then she made this picture. You can see the house, tree, car, sandcastle, and slide.

Story Writing Development:
  • Wednesday we did Write it For Me from Games for Writing. See Week 10 for instructions.

Writing Practice:
  • Friday our activity was Race of Words from Games for Writing.
    • We each had a sheet of paper and pencil (and a large book for a hard surface).
    • We sat in the living room.
    • K. was to write down the names of everything she saw. Spelling did not matter.
    • She had 10 minutes.
    • When 5 minutes had gone past, I got to start writing what I saw.
    • When the timer went off, I counted my words. I got 1 point for each word, so I had 42 points.
    • Then I counted K.'s words. This is how her words got scored.
      • Each word I had, she got 1 point for.
      • Each word I did not have, she got 3 points for.
    • She had 43 points. She won.

Kindergarten, Reading, Week 16

Monday through Thursday we read from our textbook.
  • Ask questions using the Four Levels of Questioning and Comprehension.
  • The genres were:
    • biography
    • poem
      • here we also found the rhyming words and wrote another verse to the poem
    • fiction
Friday we did an activity from Games for Reading.
  • Blindfold Drawing -- this gives your child (and you) a unique visual experience, by mentally picturing the item to draw, your child is training her ability to recall visual images of all sorts -- such as words.
    • Rules:
      1. The person who draws is blindfolded. If your child doesn't enjoy being blindfolded, they they must close their eyes.
      2. The person who draws never lets his pencil leave the paper.
    • The drawings don't come out good, but they are funny.
    • First I asked K. what I should draw. She said a tree with apples and someone picking the apples and a . . .
    • Whoa, just one item. I'll do the tree with apples.
    • I tied the blindfold on me, picked up the pencil and drew. We chuckled a bit after I took the blindfold off.
    • Then it was K.'s turn. She decided to draw a flower.
    • I turn over our construction paper, tied the blindfold on her.
    • I said, now think of what the flower looks like before you draw. She had a hard time not picking the pencil up.
    • We went back and forth a few times. I added a person and a squirrel to my side of the drawing. K. added a bird and the sun to her side.

Kindergarten, Math, Week 16

Monday we practiced counting to 100 by 10s.
  • I asked K. how many fingers/thumbs she has: 10
  • I have 10 also
  • We hit our hands together and said the next number each time we hit hands.
Tuesday we measured using Centimeters.
  • I said to K. that when we measure we use inches, but in some countries they use centimeters.
  • I had taken a stiff piece of paper and made a centimeter ruler. I decided to make one so that she didn't have to use a ruler with inches on one side and centimeters on the other and so it didn't show millimeters.
  • I told her to pick something. She grabbed the napkin holder and measured it. 18 cm
  • Then I had to find something that measured 18 cm. I tried a book and measured it.
  • Then I picked something to measure and she had to find something that measured the same.
  • This gave practice measuring and estimating.
Wednesday we worked with Weight.
  • I got out the kitchen scale and we measured 1 pound. There were 2 tangerines and a glass with some water in it.
  • Then K. flicked the "More/Less" Spinner. It landed on "Less".
  • She had to find 1 thing that weighed less than 1 lb
  • We measured 1 pound again. There was a saucer and a recipe book.
  • Then I flicked the spinner. It landed on "More".
  • I had to find 1 thing that weighed more than 1 lb.
Thursday we practiced Counting to 50 by 5s.
  • It was Park Day, so on the way to the park each time we say a white car (I let K. pick the color) we counted: 5, 10, 15, 20 . . .  50.
  • It was a fun way to pass the time in the car and we were counting almost the whole time we were in the car -- about 10 minutes.
Friday we played with Capacity -- Liters.
  • I explained that in some countries people don't use cups/quarts/gallons, but they measure with liters.
  • I showed her the liter mark on the reverse side of my 4 cup liquid measuring cup.
  • Then I pulled out other containers. Some bigger, some smaller, some about the same size and asked her, one at a time, if it would hold more, less, or the same amount as the liter.
  • When she wasn't sure we used water and tried it.
  • After doing about 10 containers we started looking at items in the kitchen to notice and read the liter amount.

Kindergarten, History, Week 16

Monday we looked at and discussed pages 72 - 74 in Ancient World. There was an article on llamas, so I had requested a couple books about llamas from the library.

Tuesday and Thursday we read the books about llamas.
  • Llamas by Emilie U. Lepthien
  • Harley by Star Livingstone
Wednesday I read Joshua 10:1-15 and Judges 3:15 - 4 and chapter 7

Friday we worked on our time line.

Kindergarten, Science, Week 16

This week was spent observing the results of the experiments we started over the last weeks and identifying trees in our neighborhood. We just identified identified one tree a day, except "at another park". My goal was to know exactly what kind of tree, but sometimes we have to settle for knowing the type of tree -- such as Fir or Ash or Magnolia -- because the book I have doesn't have every tree in it.
  1. On the next street over there are California Live Oaks
  2. At the end of our street are Magnolias
  3. In our neighborhood park there is
    • Sweetgum
    • American Sycamore
  4. At another park
    • Fir -- now we know the difference between a pine tree (in front of our house) and a fir tree
    • Ash

Saturday, May 14

Kindergarten, Bible, Week 15

This week we:
  • Learned Psalm 139:13
  • Read stories 58 - 66 in Picture Story Bible
  • Other books and stories we read:
    • Sylvester the Three-Spined Stickleback
    • Christmas in Lisuland from Other Lands
    • Gregory the Grub
    • Mrs. Rosey Posey and the Chocolate Cherry Treat
    • A Visit from Storytime with the Millers
  • Prayer
  • Song: How Great Thou Art

Kindergarten, Writing, Week 15

Monday I introduced the lower case letters i and d. K. practiced one line of each letter each day.

Small Muscle Development:
  • Tuesday we played 3 Color Road Race. See Week 10 for instructions.
  • Friday I hid googly eyes in playdoh. See Week 11 for instructions.
Story Writing Development:
  • Wednesday our activity was "Say It With Pictures." See Week 9 for instruction. Our theme this time was Mother's Day.

Kindergarten, Reading, Week 15

Monday through Thursday we read from our textbook.
  • Ask questions using the Four Levels of Questioning and Comprehension.
  • The genres were:
    • fiction
    • biography
    • historical fiction
  • The biography was about Thomas Edison, so I picked up some books from the library about him to give K. more information about him.
Friday we did an activity from Games for Reading.
  • Letter Contest -- this is a vision exercise
    • Pick a book that has some good paragraphs. I used a 4th grade reader.
    • Pick a letter. You can let your child pick one, or use another method. We have a game board with the alphabet on it, so I dropped a marker and the letter it was closest to was the letter we used. Our first letter was N.
    • Pick a paragraph and have your child count how many of that letter there are in the paragraph. K. counted all the n's.
    • Next pick another letter, and you count them in the same paragraph.
    • The person with the most wins.
    • Pick another paragraph and do it again.

Kindergarten, Math, Week 15

Monday we worked with Weight - More/Less
  • We got the More/Less Spinner again.
  • K. spun. If it landed on "Less" then we would each go to our rooms and find something that weighed less. The person who brought the item that weighed the least won.
  • If the spinner landed on "More" then the winner was the person who brought the heaviest item.
Here the spinner was on "Less". I brought the scissors and K. brought the Tinkertoy contraption.

Tuesday we counted by 5s.
  • We went outside and looked at some flowers that had 5 petals, so we counted how many petals were on a plant.
  • Most stems on a rose bush have 5 leaves, so we counted the leaves on the rose bushes.
Wednesday we worked with Capacity - Cup/Quart/Gallon
  • I got out the liquid measuring containers for 1 cup and 1 quart, and an empty milk container (gallon).
  • I poured water into the 1 cup container and K. told me when it was at the 1 cup line.
  • Then she poured it into the 1 quart container.
  • When the quart container was full she poured it into the gallon container (with the help of a funnel).
  • We kept a chart of how many cups and quarts it took to fill the gallon container.
Thursday K. wrote the numbers 21 through 40.

Friday played with Number Theory again.
  • I got out the number line and we did
    • first
    • last
    • next
    • before
    • after
    • between

Kindergarten, History, Week 15

Monday we looked and discussed pages 66 and 68 in Ancient World.

Tuesday and Thursday I read from Greek Myths. Here are all the stories we liked best:
  • Pandora's Box
  • The Story of Arachne
  • Echo and Narcissus
  • Daedalus and Icarus
  • King Midas
Wednesday I read selections from Numbers 20 - 25 and Joshua 1 - 9.

Friday we worked on our time line.

Kindergarten, Science, Week 15

Monday we started the Top to Bottom experiment. This experiment shows that roots always grow down and the stem always grows up.
  • You'll Need: several large seeds (we used pinto beans), 2 small sheets of glass or clear plastic, blotting paper or 2 - 3 paper towels, string or wire, container, water
  • Lay one of the pieces of clear plastic down, fold the paper towels so they fit on the plastic.
  • Soak the paper towels in water. Place the beans on the towels, then put the second piece of plastic over them.
  • Fasten it all together with string or wire.
  • Set it, standing up, in a container. Pour water in the container so the paper towels can continue drawing water throughout the duration of the experiment. You can use something to prop the plastic/beans up, or if your container is small enough (we used a styrofoam mushroom box) it can lean against a wall.
  • Once the beans have sprouted and started putting out roots, turn the plastic/beans 180 degrees.
  • In a day or two you can turn it again.
  • The pictures below show the results of our experiment. This experiment took 12 days from start to final picture below.
Here the arrows show how the root started one direction, then after we turned it, the root started growing the opposite direction.

Here it is after turning it a second time. I traced one root in black and added the arrows to show the changes in direction. You can see how one of the stems changed direction, too.

Also on Monday we set up an experiment to show that plants need air and to see where they take air in.
  • You'll Need: 3 identical plants (the same kind, anyway), vaseline
  • On plant #1 put vaseline on the top of all the leaves
  • On plant #2 put vaseline on the bottom of all the leaves
  • Put no vaseline on plant #3
  • As the leaves grow larger, or they grow more leaves, you'll have to add or re-apply vaseline
  • Wait and see what happens.
Here are all three plants after 12 days.
Plant #1 is on the left. It is still looking good, but isn't growing as big as Plant #3, on the right. Plant #2, in the middle, has a very droopy leaf (see close up below). It was interesting that Plants #1 and #2 started growing more leaves faster than #3, I guess to compensate for the lack of air. Plant #3 was actually smaller than #1 and #2 when we started the experiment, but now it is bigger. 

Tuesday
  • We read
    • A Tree is a Plant
    • From Seed to Pumpkin
  • We looked at what is Inside Seeds
    • You'll Need: lima or pinto beans, paper towels, saucer, water, knife, magnifying glass
    • Fold the paper towels to fit on the saucer.
    • Put the beans between a fold of the towels.
    • Soak the paper towels with water and let it sit for a day or two so the beans will sprout. Make sure the paper towels stay wet.
    • Once the beans have sprouted, use a knife to take them apart.
    • Observe what a sprouting bean/seed looks like.
 God gave us this extra observation on Tuesday.
The pumpkin seedling on the right came up during the night and was yellow instead of green.

We looked at it every hour or so, and by noon it was green. This gave us the opportunity to talk about plants needing the sun to make chlorophyll -- which gives them their green color.

Wednesday we started an experiment about the Power of Plants.
  • You'll Need: a plant that has sprouted (ours is a pinto bean), a piece of clear plastic (it needs to be clear so the sun can get to the plant), something to hold the plastic up (I cut up a shoebox)
  • Set up the experiment so that the sprouted plant is under the plastic. Here is a picture of ours. (You can see paper clips. The book said to make chains of paper clips to keep track of how far the plant pushed the plastic. If it had pushed the plastic straight up that would have worked, but our experiment didn't work that way, so I removed the paper clips.)

 Here you can see that the bean has pushed the plastic up.

Thursday we started the Follow that Light experiment.
  • You'll Need: a sprouted plant (we used a pinto bean), a shoe box, cardboard, tape, knife or scissors
  • Take the lid off the shoe box, and using tape place 2 pieces of cardboard in the box (see picture below).
  • Cut a whole in the top of the box.
  • Put the plant in the box and place the lid back on the shoe box so it is dark inside. We had to use a bit of tape to keep it in place. Remove the lid and water the plant as needed. It won't need to be watered as much as your other experiments because it is in the dark.
  • At first the plant was just pushing the top piece of cardboard up, so we taped a couple quarters to it so the cardboard would stay down and the plant would have to go around it.
  • The plant will grow around the cardboard and through the hole to get to the sunlight.
  • Through a process called phototropism, plants grow in whichever direction is toward the sunlight.

Friday we made cards from the flower we had pressed a couple weeks before.

Friday, May 6

Kindergarten, Bible, Week 14

This week we:
  • Memorized Psalm 139:12
  • Introduced Catechism #7: How can you glorify God? I can glorify God by loving Him and doing what He commands. Read Micah 6:8; John 15:8; 1 John 5:3
  • Read stories 50 - 57 in Picture Story Bible
  • Other books and stories we read:
    • The Princess and the Kiss
    • Bossy Betty from Storytime with the Millers
    • Pierre and the Christmas Present from Stories from Other Lands
  • Prayer
  • Song: How Great Thou Art

Kindergarten, Writing, Week 14

Monday I introduced the lower case letters e and b.

Small Muscle Development:
  • Tuesday we made Biscuit Letters and Numbers (or Pretzel Letters). See Week 11 for instructions. 
  • Friday we played Obstacle Course. See Week 8 for instructions.
Story Writing Development:
  • Wednesday we made a Story Map. See Week 8 for instructions. 

Monday, May 2

Kindergarten, Reading, Week 14

Monday through Thursday we read from our textbook.
  • Ask questions using the Four Levels of Questioning and Comprehension.
  • The genres were:
    • fiction
    • informational article
    • instructions
Friday we did an activity from Games for Reading.
  • Poster Word
    • We have been having discussions about what is furniture. (Please don't stand on the furniture.)
    • In pencil I wrote the word "furniture" very big on a sheet of construction paper.
    • K. traced over it with marker
    • Then we looked through magazines and clip art for pictures of furniture, cut them out and glued them on the paper.
    • I hung the paper in her room.

Kindergarten, Math, Week 14

Monday we compared Capacity.
  • I pulled a variety of containers off shelves and out of cupboards and we used water or oatmeal to see which held more and which held less.
Tuesday K. wrote the numbers 0 through 20.

Wednesday we worked with Number Theory.
  • I got out a number line (0 through 40) and the word cards
    • first
    • last
    • next
    • before
    • after
    • between
  • I asked questions such as:
    • What is the first number?
    • What number comes next?
    • What number is before 28?
    • What number is after 15?
    • What numbers are between 21 and 25?
      • That was hard at first, so I had K. put one finger on 21 and one finger on 25, then she could tell me the numbers that were "between".

Thursday we counted by 10's to 100.
  • Use manipulatives, if needed.
Friday we Measured with Inches.
  • I handed K. a book and asked her to measure on side. It was about 6 inches.
  • Then, without using a ruler, I had to go find something that I thought was 6 inches.
  • K. measured to see how close I was.
  • Then we switched roles.

Kindergarten, History, Week 14

Monday
  • We looked at pages 60 and 61 in Ancient World
  • I read from Greek Myths
    • Pandora's Box
    • Echo and Narcissus
Tuesday
  • I read Leviticus 24:10 - 23 and Numbers 11 - 14
Wednesday and Thursday we learned about Silkworms.
  • Silkworms by Martha E. H. Rustad
  • Red Butterfly by Deborah Noyes
Friday we worked on our time line.