April 13, 2011: ELEPHANT "I will remember what God has done for me."

We started today with some handwriting. A~ practiced her E's while S~ traced a bit in her pre-school book.


Then we learned about the saying "An Elephant never forgets" we talked about how we should never forget all the wonderful things that God has done for us! So thought long and hard about things that we've asked God to do for us and made a list of all the things that God did for us. A~ Remembered a time in the car when it was pouring down rain and she prayed that God would make it stop raining and He did! S~ Remembered a couple times that she had boo boo's and prayed that God would heal them and He did! A~ remembered the time when she prayed and asked God to put a baby in mommy's belly, and he did! S~ remembered the time when we lost our dog Sammy and we all prayed that God would let us find him, and papaw showed up at our door with him! And A~ Remembered how she kept having bad dreams and we prayed they would go away and they have!!


Then we had to pray and thank God for all these wonderful things he did for us! They both were very eager to pray as you can see!!

Then we learned about the Elephant, and how it is the biggest animal that walks the earth. They have big ears, but cannot hear very well, and little eyes and cannot see very well. The softest spot on their body is the backs of their ears, and they have tusks made from ivory.


And when we were all done for the day, A~ says "mom I want to do more school!" So I broke out our Hooked on Phonics that we bought last year and thought we'd give it a try! She loved it and already got through the first reading book all by herself! Hopefully we can keep it up the rest of the year and she will be reading books all by herself in no time!!

Week of April 11, 2011: HORSE "I obey right away."

We had an awesome day in school today! My 3 year old S~ is coming along beautifully, and surprised me today! She has been working so hard on recognizing her ABC's this year. We had a rough go at it in the beginning with her only recognizing 12 of them, but she knows them all but 2 of them, which she gets confused "V" & "Y". I'm so thrilled with her progress!


We also opened up her Big Preschool workbook to a new section today! She looked at the pictures and picked out which letter started the word. She did fantastic, I was super impressed!


A~ my 5 year old also worked on her long list of words for this week, she reads each of them by herself out loud then I ask her to circle or put an X over certain words, then she has to find which words I say. And again she did fantastic!


Then we learned all about "Horses". We learned that a LONG time ago we didn't have cars! Instead people used covered wagons drawn by horse in order to travel. We learned that a well trained horse obeys right away, just as God wants us to obey right away! We learned the verse Collossians 3:20 "Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord." Then we ended our lesson with the movie "Black Stallion"

Week of April 4, 2011: COW "God's Word helps me grow"

This week we did the letter "C". We counted up to 42 and A~ read her first full sentences.



We also took a field trip to Maymont. We had a picnic and then walked through the petting Zoo. We learned about "Cows" before we went. We learned that Cows can smell up to 5 miles away, they have 4 stomachs, and they chew their cud for over 8 hours a day!! We talked about what foods we get from cows like, milk, yogurt, cheese, and butter. Then at our picnic we got to taste some of those foods! We learned how good for us milk was and how the bible is like milk for our souls. We can nourish our spirits with spending time with God daily, and it helps us to grow!