Califoregon Living

Bible
Children’s Everyday Bible: We read about Moses and the 10 Commandments

Memory Verse
Hebrews 13:17 "Obey your leaders because they keep watch over you."

Read Aloud
Mother Goose- "The Tarts", "The Equal"
"The Clever Mouse"

Language Arts
Developing the Early Learner-Auditory/Similarities: I made two sounds and the boys (with their eyes closes) had to figure out if they were identical or different sounds.  Both got all correct. 
comprehansion/Association: The boys looked at pictures and had to decide if the item belonged in a yard (flower, toaster, grass, tree, sprinkler, bed).  Both got all correct.

Character
Right Choices-We read about telling lies and how taht is wrong.

Life Skills
‘365 Manners Every Child Should Know’: We read about how to eat fried chicken.  It is OK to eat with your fingers.  Wipe your hands on a napkin, not your clothes.

Math
Singapore Earlybird 1B Lesson 3: The lesson focused on numbers 1-4.  They had to count and sort.

Reading
‘A’ read Bob Books Volume 1, books 5 and 6

Yay, warm weather, finally!  Please, Lord, I beg you, please give us a string of nice days.

Today, our friends ‘A’ and ‘J'(mamabear2003) joined us in the morning/early afternoon.  The kids had fun playing together, then they joined us for our homeschool.  We did our activities outside, under a tree.  Love that! 

The boys found a caterpillar outside and wanted to have him "attend" school as well.  You can see him inside the truck. (Our caterpillars are getting huge, BTW.  They grow so fast…)

The boys acting silly.  They were falling back as I took this picture…

‘A’ and ‘J’ love our cat, Chelan, and took every opportunity to pet and cuddle with him; something, fortunately, Chelan loves to do!

Bible
We read where Moses stuck the stone for water and Jethro (Moses FIL) told Moses he needs to create a team of wise counsel to help him solve disputes among the people.

Memory Verse
"Obey your leaders because they keep watch over you." Hebrews 13:17

Read Aloud
Mother Goose- "Hushabye"
"The Golden Sleepy Book"

Language Arts
DEL- The boys had to draw a line from one item to another without hitting the borders.  All did well.  They also had to pick the set of pictures that were identical.  All did well.

Science
BB- We read about ‘Fall’
Months: October, November, December
It gets colder outside
The days are shorter
Summer plants die
Leaves turn all different colors (red, yellow, orange, brown)

Character
Right Choices- (We are starting this book over, until I find a new character book to use): We read about begin thankful for the food we eat and how we have enough.

Life Skills
365 Manners…We read aobut how to eat corn on the cob.   You hold it with your fingers.  Take some butter and place it on your plate.  Butter a few rows at a time, but not the whole thing at once.  Eat along the rows and the more thorough you are, the cleaner the cob will be.  You can use cob handles to keep fingers from being burned.

During lunch, our other friends, ‘A’ and ‘M’ (you might remember ‘M’…I took care of her last year), came over for a couple of hours.

Little ‘A’ latched on to ‘M’ and would call her ‘mama’.  She followed her everywhere like a little duckling.  ‘M’ is such a good little ‘mama’, and I think she enjoyed the attention!

Having fun!

Bible
We read the story where God made the bad water good to drink and provided quail and manna for His people, while in the desert.

Memory Verse
"Obey your leaders because they keep watch over you." Hebrews 13:17
I quizzed ‘R’ on his knowledge of previous verses.  With prompting, he was able to compete all of them.  I was not expecting this, and am very pleased.

Read Aloud
Mother Goose- "One Misty, Moisty, Morning"
Tiget Gets Stuck

Language Arts
Developing the Early Learner-I read a sentence and each boy had to pick a picture that fit the best in the sequence.  Both were 100%.

Social Studies
Things People Do- We reviewed the bakery positions

Character
Right Choices-  We read that we will do wrong things and that those wrong things are sin.  We read that through Jesus, our sins can be forgiven.

Life Skills
365 Manners Every Child Should Know- We read about how to eat pasta.  you can either twil with the times of the fork, or cut the pasta into smaller pieces.

Math
Singapore Earlybird 1B-Lesson 2- Today, ‘A’ and ‘R’ had to identify the numbers 1-4.  They had to count items 1-4, follow dot to dot for 1-4, and write the numerals 1-4.  ‘R’ can marginally write the number one, but his motor skills are not there.  ‘A’ did very well with the dot to dot, but had difficulty writing on his own.  He holds the pen correctly.

Reading
I was going to have ‘A’ read from Bob Book Volume 2, but he is struggling a little with this new volume.  So, I am going to let him go back to Volume one and re-do those.  He read Bob Books Volume One, Books 1-3 today.

The boys dressed themselves today.  They looked so cute, I had to take a picture 🙂 (Note the Pj’s ‘R’ is wearing under the shorts…)

Memory Verse
I had ‘A’ review all of the verses to date.  I would give the verse and the first word or two, and he was able to recite them all! Proverbs 4:20, Hebrews 11:1, 2 Corinthians 9:7, Colossians 3:15, Ephesians 4:25
‘R’ can kind of recite the general idea, but I had to heavily prompt.

New verse- Hebrews 13:17 "Obey your leaders because they keep watch over you.
Concept: Obedience- I obey right away without delay.

Read Aloud
Mother Goose-‘Come out to Play’
‘Pets for Peter’
Animals Animals-‘Mouse’, ‘The Birthday Cow’, ‘Baby Chick’

Language Arts
‘Developing the Early Learner’-The boys looked at a set of pictures (dog, coat, goat, throat, sailboat, fish)  They had to decide which items rhyme with ‘boat’.  Both got all correct.

Science
‘BB Book of Science…’-We learned about lightning and thunder.  Lightning is sparks of electricity that shoots from one cloud to another.  Thunder is the noice that lightning makes.  We use electricity to light our homes, run the vacuum, etc.

Social Studies
‘Things People Do’-We read about the Baker-  There is a Master Baker, an Apprentice Baker, a Cake Decorator.  We learned that there is ‘proofing oven’ that allows breads to rise, a regular hot overn, and a cooling oven.

Character
‘Right Choices’-We read about how it is good to read the Bible and learn about what God wants for us.

Life Skills
‘365 Manners’-We read about eating desserts.  We eat cookies, small pastries, and cream puffs with our fingers.  Puddings, ice cream, custards and other soft desserts are eaten with a spoon.  Pie and cakes are eaten with a fork.  If ice cream is served with pie or cake, you offer both a fork and a spoon, but you do not have to use both.  You can use a spoon to cut an eclair, but use a fork to eat it.

Math
Singapore Earlybird 1B-Lesson 1-This lesson introduced the concept of ‘solid shapes’: cube, sphere, box, cone, cylinder.  ‘A’ struggled a bit with this and kept defaulting to ‘circle, square, etc.  ‘R’ grasped this concept immediately and corrected ‘A’ many times. 

Reading
‘A’ read Bob Book Set 2, Book 1, ‘The Ten Men’

Bible
‘Children’s Everyday Bible’-The Israelites leave Egypt and the parting of the Red Sea

Memory Verse
Ephesians 4:25 "Tell your neighbors the truth because we belong to each other."

Read Aloud
"The Two Brothers"

Language Arts
‘Developing the Early Learner’-
Motor/Patterns-the boys had to look at a pattern and follow corresponding dotted patterns.
Visual/Figure ground-The boys had to outline shaceships in a puzzle pattern.

Science
‘BB Big Book of Science and Nature’-We read about all the fun things we can do in the summer: swim, make lemonade, boating, diving, picnics…

Character
‘Right Choices’-We read about tantrums and why they are wrong.

Life Skills
‘365 Manners’-We read about how to eat soup. You scoop away from you.  You tip the bowl away and scoop to get the last bit.  Do not slurp.  If it is hot, wait until cooler to eat.  If it is served in a cup, you can drink it like a beverage.  Crackers are served on the side.  Crush a few at a time, but not all at the same time.

Math
Singapore Earlybird 1A-This lesson revolved aroung heavy/light.  The boys did well at choose what item is heavier/lighter than the other.  They had a hard time envisioning a scale, with light items higher than heavier ones.  We need to find a scale of some sort that can show this.  Maybe we will find a teeter-totter…

Reading
‘A’ read one page from a Reading Primer ‘The Gingerbread Boy’

Look what paid us a visit to our yard!  We tried to identify it, and our best guess is the Piliated Woodpecker…This one seems more brown than the black I have seen in other pictures.

My friend, Sundi, came over today, with her two kids, ‘T’, boy age 4, and ‘E’, girl age 15m.  They participated in our homeschool activites.  After that, we went to Homeschool Potpourri, where I began to build our curriculum for next year.  We picke dup some subway sandwiches and took them to Marymoor Park.  The weather was perfect! 

Bible
We read about the final plague; the death of the firstborn and the protection of the Israelites through Passover.

Memory Verse
"Tell your neighbor the truth because we belong to each other." Ephesians 4:25

Read Aloud
Mother Goose-"Little Miss Muffet"
‘Busy Timmy’
‘Eric Carle’s Animals Animals’-‘Crickets, Bee!, My Opinion’

Social Studies
Things People Do- School teacher

Life Skills
‘365 Manners…’ We read about eating a salad.  If a salad is served on a salad plate, you use the salad fork.  It a salad is served on a dinner plate, you use a dinner fork.  It is OK to cut larger pieces of lettuc with a knife.  Cherry tomatoes can be eaten whole, or cut in half if too large.  Be careful of burstin seed!

Character
‘Right Choices’-We read about cheating and how it is wrong to cheat.

No ;anguage arts, math, or reading today.