BIBLE: Another bible verse for the week and once again, mission accomplished! In case you can't see the photo very well here is the verse: "A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control. Proverbs 29:11"
In a cute and funny way, we learned to draw a map of Israel and the area near it, then worked on memorizing the bodies of water. Here is the example we had to look at:
#1 - a man's boat as he is out fishing, - - Mediterranean Sea
#2 - his fishing lines getting all tangled up in the water - - Nile River
#3 - the man's finger's after he fell overboard trying to untangle his lines - -Red Sea
#4 - a distress signal: a balloon - - Sea of Galilee
#5 - with a string - - Jordan River
#6 - a mitten hanging on the end of it - - Dead Sea
#7 - a water bug - - Persian Gulf
#8 - his antennae - - Tigris River
#9 - his antennae - - Euphrates River
Here's Caleb's drawing:
The silly sentence used to memorize the different bodies of water is, "E.T. purrs in the red nile med."
Euphrates River, Tigris River, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Nile River, and Mediterranean Sea....So, with a little more work, maybe we'll both get all that to memory. ;o)
READING: Tons more new words this week and fun little projects to practicing writing some of them. Here he had to cut out some shapes and write some of his new words on the inside.
This project was a little rough. He was learning words with "oo" in them. Some of them sound like "spoon" and others like "book." He had to sort about 24 words into the right pockets of his booklet.
In this dictation exercise, I said the word and Caleb had to write it. If you look in the picture above you can see that at the top of the worksheet, (where he was to fill in the blanks,) there is already one vowel written on the line to start him off. For example, in #1 he had to decide if hot had the "o" or the "oo". In the worksheet below, there are no vowels written and he had to just write the word as I dictated them to him....
Here are a couple of examples of the daily word lists from his workbook...
MATH: This week for math was what I'm referring to as a "lay-low" week. Not sure, but the math lessons were way too easy and not much to them. They focused on the different shapes: circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, crescent, oval, etc...We did the assignments, but they weren't very challenging for Caleb. He nearly did them with his eyes closed and one hand tied behind his back. But, after a quick peek at next week's math, I see why we had a light week. Next week??? Watch out addition - - here we come! Lots of worksheets and assignments every day....We'll take this light week and enjoy it for now.
And of course exploring day came complete with another pattern animal assignment. Caleb continues to enjoy these...
Lots of great stories were read this week! I think we read over 20 books....but I've already exchanged them all out for books for the next two weeks and once again didn't think to keep the list. I did have some of them written down, but we became part of the reader's club with the Corpus Christi Area Teachers Federal Credit Union, and I turned in his list to them. Each month Caleb can earn a "pin" to go on a lanyard. A fun little goal to help encourage reading. The weather "theme" packet from the library came in handy and we read every book in the packet from cover to cover...
SCIENCE: This week we learned a little bit about thunder and lightning from our Things Outdoors book. After reading about the topic in our science book we ventured to youtube.com and watched a few videos on thunder and lightning. Not really a whole lot of hands-on activity for this topic so I incorporated a "lapbook" that continued our topic on rain from last week adding in concepts about thunder and lightning.
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| The cover! |
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| The inside! |
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| Fold-out of the three main types of clouds! |
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| What makes up the weather? |
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| Answers on the inside! I typed them and Caleb glued them in place! |
Whew - another great week in My Father's World!! I'm continually blessed by the opportunity to home school Caleb. He seems to really enjoy school and even though he balks when I mention it's time to start school, within a few minutes he's the one reminding me we need to get busy with our school day. That is so encouraging to me.
I can see differences in his reactions to assignments from week to week. Things that used to be overwhelming and frustrating are now becoming easier. I'm certain that MFW will put another twist in our day and produce some more complicated tasks to make up for it, but I'm equally as certain that Caleb will do quite well with each and every challenge placed before him.
Until next week - blessings to you and as always I ask for your prayers to help carry us through our homeschool journey.
Walking with the King,
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