Thursday, March 18

Daily Devotion: Genesis 45:1-8 Joseph Makes Himself Known
(We use the My Devotions book that our church hands out quarterly)
Talked about forgiveness
We also have a cute, little series of books from Concordia Publishing House called "God, I need to talk to you about......" and each one focuses on a different problem children may face (disrespect, hurting others, lying, sharing, whining, etc.)

Health: Personal Grooming
Talked about a display of different items that we use to keep ourselves clean and healthy.
Sang a song called "What are we doing now?" and filled in the verses with different things like "washing our hair."
Read a poem called "Wish" abut a child who wishes he/she was a fish so no one would ask "Have you washed today?" Discussed why adults check up on whether children have washed.
Completed another page for the booklet about making healthy choices
I read the books "Harry the Dirty Dog" and "Mud Puddle" to Faith and Anna

Writing: Faith made 2 entries in her alphabet journal. She wrote P is for Winnie the Pooh and J is for for Jam. She drew a picture of Pooh, Christopher Robin and Piglet and another picture showing four different jars of Jam.

Math: Did 1 review page on fractions before moving onto something new tomorrow.

Science: Talked about the different parts of a plant (root, stem, leaf and flower, fruit or seed). Examined a tomato, carrot, lettuce and celery. Matched up which food went with which part of the plant. Discussed what parts of different plants are edible.

Geography: Learned fascinating facts about Japan. I make this more entertaining by hiding clues around the house and each clue has a fascinating fact to go with it.

Spelling: Did a worksheet unscrambling the words from word list 2

Reading: Sounded out compound words like kit + ten = kitten
Faith read a few pages of "Go Dog Go"

Another set of books I really like that we have on our book shelf is the Explore and Learn series because they are great reference books or can be used to supplement a curriculum or even make up your own curriculum for younger children.

And of course there are those everyday moments that make great teaching opportunities like cooking, grocery shopping, even folding laundry and matching socks!

Faith attended her weekly 1 hour gymnastics class this afternoon while Seth, Anna and I went to the library.

Tonight before bed the entire family watched 1 hour of a library DVD on the Iditarod sled dog race in Alaska.