Week 5 {10/4 - 10/15}

Did you notice? Yes, you are correct, that is a two week time spread. We took two weeks to do one week of school because we had Mom Mom and Pop Pop Cossaboon in town to visit. That is how homeschooling rolls and I love it! Our Bible Stories were; Joseph is Sold, God is with Joseph, Joseph's Secret, and Joseph forgives his brothers. We talked so much about Joseph, that Joseph is now ranked right up there with God and Jesus with Alyssa. It's pretty cute.

Our God's World theme for the week was "Family", which I had picked because we had family visiting, but it also just worked well with our Bible Stories because of Joseph's relationship with his family.

For Language we learned about Patterns, Finishing a Story (which was absolutely adorable to see what Hayley would say), and we also started with letter writing with the Letter A. For Math we talked about Money. I gave the girls pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters and we just talked about them and tried remembering what they were called. We started working on our numbers with the Numbers 1 and 2 and we also reviewed top, middle and bottom positions.


Can you guess where I took the pictures of the library books? That would be the back seat of the car. I was getting ready to return them and then remembered I had yet to take a picture of them and whipped out my phone to take a picture!

The Character Trait was Diligence and the Memory Verse was 1 Corinthians 10:31; whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

Week 4 {9/27 - 10/1}

Well, Homeschooling is going great... me keeping this blog up-to-date... not so much! I will work harder at it! This homeschooling is no joke. Most evenings I am reviewing my lessons for the next day and searching online to see if there is anything fun that I can add to it. I wouldn't change it for the world though, I am loving it! This week our Bible Stories were; Jacob's Lie, Jacob's Dream, Jacob meets Rachel, and Joseph's Dream. A couple of the crafts that we did to go along with that were we made cut out hearts and we put band-aids on them to remember that lie's hurt, and we also made a colorful weaved paper as a reminder of Joseph and his coat of many colors. For Math we talked about; before, after and in between, measuring, maps, and left to right. For Language; we did a cool exercise where I would give Hayley two words and she had to put them into a sentence, we also practiced listening (pretty much like a Simon Says game), What's missing (where I would lay a couple things out, have them look at them, close there eyes and take something away to see if they could remember what was missing, and hand eye coordination where they practiced lacing. We also learned about taking care of our eyes and we did a mini eye exam, where they had to show me what way the E was pointing.



Our God's World Theme for this week was birds, and we learned about the parts or birds, read books about birds, colored birds and even got to visit and hold birds! Friends of ours have two parakeets and we went and visited them and the girls each got to have the bird stand on their hand.



Our Character Trait this week was Dependability and our Bible Verse was Matthew 5:37 Simply, let your yes be yes and your no; no.