L is for Leaf

This week in school we learned all about leaves. It was fun collecting different leaves from outside and learning what kind of trees they came from. In our backyard we have a maple tree and a willow tree so we talked about those kinds of trees and learned about roots and how they help get water to the tree to grow.  Our biblical concept to go with the unit was, "I will live and grow in Jesus." For each unit there is a biblical concept that ties into what we are learning and it comes from a bible verse, they just break it down to the simpilist form and then we make a "badge" for each one. Here is Isaac with his badge for this week, although you can't read it.

 

Here are some the things we did this week:)

Daddy and Isaac went for a walk at a park and collected 12 different leaves. We used these to separate from color and size and also traced them.

 

We did leaf rubbings! Which is always a cool thing to do no matter how old you are!

Isaac colored and cut different pictures of things that start with "L." He is getting pretty good with those scissors. I have seen such an improvement since we started. I used to have to hold the page in place for him while he cut across, but now he does it all on his own.

Isaac colored different patterns and practiced writing the number "3"

Isaac used "Cuisenaire rods" to build different objects. These are good for learning shapes, patterns, math and colors. He really enjoys doing these!

 Here are the books we checked out from the library to read all about leaves. It was a pretty good week although I ended up just doing 4 days last week and 2 days this week. So tomorrow we will start our new unit on, "Apples," which is perfect because my fridge is full of them!

School with Isaac!

We started doing "My Father's World K" with Isaac at the end of August and so far I am loving it! He is doing so well and getting used to doing, "school" everyday. Usually we try and do it in the morning before lunch time, but it really depends on our day. Right now Isaac has swim lessons on Mon. and Wednesdays at 10:00am and Beau is doing a gymnastics/tumbling class on Tue. so we have to work around those, but it has been going well. Everything is so well laid out with the curriculum it is very easy for me to follow and does not take too much time to prepare for. Each week we have a different theme or what they call "Units." Last week we learned all about the Sun and this week we are learning about the Moon. Here are some things we are learning in our Moon unit so far.

Since "M," is for "moon" we worked on writing and making M's. Here we used playdough to form the letter M. This was a big hit with Isaac.

We went to the library and got lots of books on the moon.

We made a M & M chart to work on our math and colors. This was after we already ate them all!

We went "fishing" for letters with our magnet fishing pole and some small letter cards with a paper clip attached to them.

 We traced the letter "M" with paint and a q-tip. We also learned about the phases of the moon: Full, New moon, half moon and crescent moon and drew pictures of each phase. We learned that the moon itself has no light. It only gets it's light from the sun. Last week we learned about the sun and how like the sun, Jesus is the light of the world. Well, it was neat this week to incorporate that idea that we only get our light from the "Son" Jesus so we too are to be lights in the world and talked about ways to shine our light for others, based off Matthew 5:14, 16..  We also did quite a few other activities, including attempting to make a cardboard space shuttle and worksheets, but these were some of the "fun" ones :) Tomorrow is the last day of our moon unit, where one of our focuses will be on classical music. It is amazing how much Isaac is already learning. Last week we had a poem of the week, "My Shadow," by Robert Louis Stevenson. I recited the poem at the start of each day and I could not believe by the end of 6 days (units are designed to last 6 days) he had most of it memorized with out me even prompting him to do so! Kids are such little sponges!