MFW 1st Grade - Week #16

And here we are - - as promised....    ;o)

BIBLE/READING:   This week we read the story of Jacob and also talked about his twelve sons.  This lead into the Joseph's story, which was rather long and took us about 3 school days to complete it.  After the first day, the story ended with Joseph in prison and Caleb was on the edge of his seat wanting me to continue reading.  It was SO hard for me to make him wait and hear the story as it was set up in our curriculum.

With these stories we added a few people to our timeline:

In his workbook he now has sentences that he has to complete.  It involves figuring out which of the four words at the top of the page should be used to complete each sentence.

Sometimes he still has dictation words, which is still NOT his favorite thing to do.  

His bible verse for this week was:  "The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicket and the good.  Proverbs 15:3"

In his bible notebook he was to illustrate "Jacob leaves home."  In this picture, my little boy who hates to draw, drew a ladder and a picture of Jacob sleeping on the ground.  

This is a picture of Jacob and his coat of many colors....   ;o)  Some days he does attempt to draw something.  When he's flustered over it, he'll look at my bible notebook and sorta try to "copy" what I'm doing.  This is encouraged by MFW for those kiddo's who really don't want to draw.  All I want is for him to try.  I try to tell him that not everyone is an artist, but if we give our best effort at everything we're doing, that's all that God wants.

Reading rules:  He learned a few more reading rules this week.  The sound "ph" and "u" as it sounds in "put."  It's crazy how many rules we've covered since the beginning of 1st grade.  

MATH:  We talking more about counting money.  It's not a totally new concept to Caleb because we count the money in his money dish every day, but these worksheets reinforce the value of the different coins and how to count them out.

This worksheet tied in some math problems.

 SCIENCE:  There wasn't a science topic this week.  We are transitioning into a new science book "Science with Water."  We'll be back to hands-on projects in a week or two.  For now, we'll enjoy not having science to do!

Walking with the King,
Pam