{"id":421978,"date":"2007-11-06T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2007\/11\/06\/my-shift-in-documenting-days-lessons-early-november\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T08:25:00","slug":"my-shift-in-documenting-days-lessons-early-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2007\/11\/06\/my-shift-in-documenting-days-lessons-early-november\/","title":{"rendered":"My shift in documenting days-Lessons early November"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the boys start to pick up activities, it is becoming increasingly difficult to document the daily lesson.  I will continue to highlight special activities through the week, but instead of a daily documentation of the lessons, I will do a weekly synopsis of what we are learning.  <\/p>\n

Last week we read many Bible stories about, Elijah and Elisha, and many of the different kings.  We read Mother Goose, and stories from The Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book, Milly Molly Mandy, The Children’s Book of Virtues, and Eric Carle’s Animal Animals.<\/p>\n

We are continuing to work in ‘Developing the Early Learner’.  There was one interesting activity where the boys heard two words and had to decide of they were the same or not.  Some of  the two words rhymed.  ‘A’ knew immediately that they were same or not, butit took ‘R’ a few tries to recognize that even though the words rhymed, they were not the same.<\/p>\n

We finished the nature section of the Berenstain bears Book of Science and Nature and will begin the Science section this week.<\/p>\n

We looked up four pieces of art.  Here they are:
\n\"\"Georges de la Tour, 1640, ‘Cheater with Ace of Diamonds’<\/p>\n

\"\"Thomas Eakins, 1876, ‘Baby at Play’<\/p>\n

\"\"David Inshaw, 1972-3, ‘The Badminton Game’<\/p>\n

\"\"Rosso Fiorentino, 1520, ‘Putto Musician’<\/p>\n

The boys were interested in the artist who painted the angel and wanted to see more of his work.  We found a detail piece of this painting and had a good talk about what the painting was about.
\n\"\"Rosso Fiorentino, ‘The Descent from the Cross’<\/p>\n

I then took the four dates from the works of art (1640, 1876, 1972, 1520) and asked the boys which picture was the oldest and youngest.  They quessed and got them wrong, but something very cool came out of this.  When I said that some art is only 40 years old, other art is 800 years old or even older,  ‘A’ said, "800 is 8-0-0".  I was so surprised!  I had no idea he knew this concept; we are still working on 1-10 in math!  I asked how he knew this and he said, "one time, you said that 300 is 3-0-0, so 800 is 8-0-0."  I love that he figured that out.<\/p>\n

We finished the book called ‘Manners’ by Aliki and began a new one called ‘A Little Book of Manners for Boys’.<\/p>\n

For math, we are continuing to work on writing the numerals 1-10 using worksheets from Singapore Earlybird.  ‘A’ can easily count items in this range, ‘R’ still needs help from 6-10 (he loses his place).<\/p>\n

‘A’ is working on reading the Bob Book ‘Willy’s Wishes’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the boys start to pick up activities, it is becoming increasingly difficult to document the daily lesson.  I will continue to highlight special activities through the week, but instead of a daily documentation of the lessons, I will do a weekly synopsis of what we are learning.  Last week we read many Bible stories […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-homeschool"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}