Friday, March 19

Fridays are our pajama day at school where the kids and I do not have to get dressed for school unless we want to. We also have show-and-tell because the kids kept asking if we could. They each get up to 5 minutes to share something with the rest of us.

Today we had a chiropractic appointment in Park Rapids in the afternoon, so we had a short school day and will probably do our Geography and Arts & Craft project tomorrow, unless I get called to a birth. (A mom called while I was in P.R. and was having contractions.)

This is what we did get accomplished today:

Daily Devotion: Mark 13:32-33 The Day and Hour Unknown
Talked about when Jesus will return (will it be today, next week, years or even in our lifetime?) and what we should do while we wait. Faith reminded us of how the Bible says heaven is full of many rooms that God has prepared for us and when our room is ready Jesus will come and take us to heaven. "In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going." John 14:2-4 (This verse was read by our Pastor many times while my father-in-law lay in bed dying.)

Writing: Faith started on Q is for Quilt in her alphabet journal, but didn't quite finish coloring the picture of her quilt because I only allowed so much time since we had an appointment to be at on time.

Math: Did a worksheet on following oral directions. The worksheet had 16 pictures on it and as I read a story out loud Faith had to put a number by each picture in the correct order. She let Seth help by letting him point to the picture too.

Reading: We played Word Play in the HOP workbook. Faith is given cards with a letter on each and then is given a word to spell with those letters. Seth helped identify the letters in the words Faith spelled. Faith read a short story out of her workbook and then Seth read a book too by looking at the pictures and telling the story. Even though he isn't actually reading any words, telling a story is great practice for his speech development.

I liked the fact that Faith and Seth chose to work together today and cooperated. Anna sat on the couch engrossed in this Amish Life book that has been her favorite for the past few days. She just loves the photos, especially of the babies.

In town we stopped to do a little shopping for some birthday gifts for our friends and Seth practiced his money management skills. He wanted to buy a book of paper dolls that cost $4.00. I told the children I could not afford to buy each of them something that cost that much, but I would give them each $2.00 to spend. Faith chose a plastic jewelry set for $1.50, Anna chose a .25 sucker, but Seth was still intent on the paper dolls. So I gave him a choice of paying $2.00 out of his own money to make up the difference or choosing something that cost less. This was a hard decision because he knows he has a $10.00 bill at home that he has been saving for a bunny rabbit and he did not want to give that up. In the end, he chose to give up two of his dollars for the paper dolls. After some thought while driving home I chose to let him keep his $10.00 bill and instead will keep $2.00 of the money he earns from doing chores. He was very excited about this and agreed to get all his work done.

In a future post I will explain more about our chore and allowance system.