Califoregon Living

Bible
Children’s Everyday Bible-Continued reading about Moses and Aaron

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

Read Aloud
"The Four Friends"

Language Arts
‘Developing the Early Learner’-
Auditorty/Memory- I gave each boy a set of commands.  They had to wait one minute before executing the command:
‘A’-"color the bird blue; color the bone brown- He did this properly
‘R’-color the bird yellow; color the bone red.-He colored the bird correctly, but colored the bone brown, not red.
‘A’-Color the bird red; draw a line over the bone-He did this correctly
‘R’-Draw an ‘x’ on the bird; draw and ‘x’ over the bone-He did this correctly

Comprehension/Sequence-Each boy looked at a set of pictures and had to decide whic item would go on first:  ‘A’ did well.  ‘R’ had a hard time with this.

Science
BB Book of Science and Nature- We read about the 4th of July:
-AKA ‘Independence Day’
-The USA’s birthday
-there are fireworks

Social Studies
Things People Do-School teacher

Character
‘365 Manners…’-We read about how to eat bread.  If the basket is closest to you, you take the basket, offer bread to the person on your left, take a piece for yourself, and pass it on the right.  Place butter and jelly on your plate and break off small pieces of bread.  Butter and jelly the small piece before eating.  If there is a bread plate, use it; otherwise, place the bread on the left side of the dinner plate.

‘Right Choices’-We read about doing the right thing, even if your friends aren’t.

Math
Singapore Math Earlybird 1A-Lesson 17-We took a vase and filled it with water.  The boys had to pour a cup of water from the vase, into a bucket and recorded how many cups it took to empty the vase.  We did this a few times.

Social/P.E.
The kids played at the indoor playground today.

Bible
‘Children’s Everyday Bible’-Moses and the burning bush

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

Read Aloud
We did a ton of read alouds today.  It was just that kind of day…
Mother Goose-"The Girl in the Lane"
Caps for Sale
Little Peewee
Little Quack’s Bedtime
Time for Friends
Kittlen’s First full Moon
Did I Ever Tell you how Lucky You Are?

Language Arts
‘Developing the Early Learner’- I took four pieces of paper and drew a circle, diamond, rectangle, and triangle on each.  I had the boys look at the pieces of paper, close their eyes, and removed one shape.  Each boy had to take turns and tell me which shape I removed.  Both did excellent.

Social Studies
We read about the school jobs in ‘Things People Do’

Character
‘365 Manners’-We read that appetizers are also called hors d’oeuvres and canapes.  We are to only take one or two and that’s it.  Take a napkin too.  If you take something off of a tray, hold it on your napkin for a few seconds before eating it; don’t just pop it in your mouth from the tray.  An appetizer is meant to stimulate the digestive juices, but not satisfy it.

‘Right Choices’-We read about sharing our food and toys to those who do not have any.

Reading
‘A’ read from the reading primer-a page from ‘The Gingerbread Boy’

Social
My friend, Hope, came over with her two kids for a playdate.  ‘J’, boy age 4, and ‘K’, girl age 2?

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

Read Aloud
Mother Goose- "Willie Winkie"
"The Mouse Deer’s Wisdom"
Eric Carle’s Animal Animals "Every Insect", and "The Ant"

Language Arts
Developing the Early Learner-Motor/Hand-Eye- The boys had to take a look at a group of faces and a pattern below the face.  They had to find the same face and draw the corresponding pattern beneath it.  The drawings weren’t pretty, but you can tell they knew that the pattern was the correct one.

Science
BB Book of Nature-We read about the sun.  We learned that the sun is millions of miles away.  We need the sun for light and heat.  The sun makes things grow, even things that are underground.  Bats and owls do not like the sun and only come out at night.  We should not stay in the sun to long or we will burn.

Social Studies
‘Things People Do- We learned about all the people that work in a school (principal, assistant principal, teachers, librarian, secretary, custodian.)

Character
‘365 Manners’-We read how to eat difficult foods:
hamburger-cut it in half before eating
french fries-OK to eat with fingers at a fast food restaurant, but in fine dining, you need to use a fork and dip your fries in the catsup.
asparagus-OK to eat with fingers (who knew?), but also OK to eat with fork.  OK to not eat the fibrous part.
Lemon-OK to squirt on fish and into ice tea.  Use you rother hand to deflect any errant squirting.
Bacon-if soft, use a fork.  If crisp, OK to eat with fingers.
Baked potatoes-Cut in half, scoop insides onto plate and eat.  Or, cur in half, and eat from the skin.  It’s OK to eat the skin.

‘Right Choices’- We read that is is wrong to swear and to say the God’s name inappropriately.

Math
Singapore Earlybird 1a-Lesson 16-Today’s lesson focused on more, less, most, least.  We also learned that a cup of water will still be the same amount regardless of the size and shape of the container it is poured into.  We practiced this by taking one cup of water and pouring it into different containers.

Reading
‘A’ read a page fro a reading Primer -The Gingerbread Boy’.  I had ‘R’ parrot a few sentences.

In the Kitchen
While playing outside, the boys were thrilled to discover two ripe huckleberries!

They insisted we make a huckleberry pie.  Here is our attempt at a huckleberry-blueberry meringue!
Making the crust…
Cutting the shortening into the flour..

Rolling out the dough…

piercing the crust…

My attempt at meringue failed miserably, but it still tasted good…

We ahd Bible study this morning, but they were short childcare, so I served in ‘R’s class today.  We played at a local park after that.

A macaroni and cheese lunch with an apple, and on to class…

Bible
‘Children’s Everyday Bible’- We read about Moses killing an Egyptian and fleeing to Midian, then meeting Jethro and marrying his daughter Zipporah.

Memory Verse
This was review day…I had ‘A’ recite:

Proverbs 4:20-"Pay attention my child to what I say, listen carefully."
Hebrews 11:1-"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see"
2Corinthians 9:7-"God loves a cheerful giver." (He needed a little prompting…)
Colossians 3:15-"Let the peace of God rule in your hearts…and be thankful."

Read Aloud
"The New Baby"

Language Arts
Auditory-I had the boys close their eyes.  I made two sounds and they had to tell be whether the sounds were identical or different.

Comprehension/Association-The boys had to decide which items belonged in a kitchen-toaster, knife,cups, plates, clothes, car

Science
‘BB Book of Nature…’ We read about summer:
Months-July, August, September
No school
It’s hot in the summer
The sun is still out when you go to bed
Flowers grow fast

Character
‘365 Manners…’ We read about how to be discreet removing seeds, pits, or bones from your mouth.

‘Right Choices’-We read about marriage and how God wants husbands and wives to love each other.

Math
Singapore Earlybird 1A- Lesson 14 and 15.  The boys colored patterns and worked on number recognition.

Reading
‘A’ read from the Primer , a couple pages from ‘The Little Red Hen’.  ‘R’ parroted what ‘A’ said.

Bible
‘Children’s Everyday Bible’: The story of Moses being found by the princess

Memory Verse
Colossians 3:15 "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts…and be thankful."

Read Aloud
Mother Goose- "Old King Cole"
"The Generous Bird"
Eric Carle’s Animals Animals "Bat"

Language Arts
Developing the Early Learner-Visual/Similarities:  The boys had to look at a set of pictures and decide if they are identical or not.  Both boys were able to pick which were identical and which were not.

Character
365 Manners…We read about the origin of the ‘afternoon tea’ and the difference between the ‘afternoon tea’ and ‘high tea.  In the 1840’s in England, Anna, the 7th Duchess of Bedford began the practice to tie her over from her light and ealy lunch to her late, more substantial dinner.  She invited friends to join her and the ‘afternoon tea’ was invented.  ‘High tea’ is more like a farmhouse supper, with meat and eggs (who knew?).

‘Right Choices’-we read about pride and how it is wrong to think that you are better than others and act that way.

Reading
‘A’ read from the Primer- a page from "The Little Red Hen’

P.E.
‘A’ earned his second stripe on his yellow belt in martial arts today. 

Today, we went to Farrel McWhirter Park  in Redmond.  It is an old homestead that is now a park. 

The boys had a great time running in the field.  We must have been close to swallows nests, because they were swooping around the boys.  The kids loved playing with them.  The blurry spot obove ‘R’ is a bird…

This is a lookout that looked like a spaceship.  the kids enjoyed running in it.

‘C1,2,3 ‘A’ and ‘R’

We saw a variety of animals…

TURKEY…

CHICKENS and a ROOSTER…

RABBITS…(Did you know that rabbits in the wild have their babies underground?)

GOATS…

PIGS…

DUCKS…(this is Lucky and Jasmine)

A COW…

A DONKEY…

A HORSE…

We went on a wilderness hike on the trails at the park.  Here is a picture of the boys against a huge uprooted tree from a storm.

The kids enjoyed crossing a bridge over Mackey Creek…

Mackey Creek…