Bread and Jam for Frances

There were a number of fun activities with our book this week.

 Cooper listed his favorite food as tomato soup.

 Caleb was very busy carrying "Jackson" in his box after completing his Frances mask.

Primary Colors

We're studying color in art. The boys made flags on white backgrounds using only primary colors. Noah's not miserable. He found this pose amusing:

 Cooper really wanted to make the American flag instead of his own design. He did use only primary colors - just not all of them.

 Cooper's been reading us a book a day:

Just another day...

Have we been doing school. Yes. Have I taken photos? Some. Have I downloaded them. Of course. Have they been posted on the blog. Obviously not. Fast forward to today.

This and That

Playing math:

Alphabet Train:

 

 

 Percussion:

 When's your birthday Caleb?

 He can't smell a rose if you erase his _____:

If you make a mouse cookie...

Getting crafty

Noah works on Corduroy's overalls:

 This morning started with "camping" in the sitting room:

 We're still doing shapes in art:

Learning Together

We're learning about how plants grow and change this week. Cooper read Jenny's Garden for us this morning.

 The boys went on a shape hunt as part of their art lesson.

Back to work

We took two weeks off from school in order to pack, move, unpack, and get into a reasonably settled state. We started school a couple of weeks early this summer in anticipation of the move.

I've been enjoying a new (to me) book, Phonemic Awareness: Playing with Sounds to Strengthen Beginning Reading Skills, that I brought back from the States. My ex-Kindergarten teacher mother has a seemingly endless supply of resources, and I'm happy to de-clutter her shelves. 

The activity below is a "Rhyme-Away Story." If you can count to three, erase the _____.

 Working with the balance scale in math was a big hit.

 Simon Says, touch the letter that says "a" to your nose.

 We've moved from lines to shapes in art. The boys created a shape picture with tangram pieces and reproduced it on paper.

 Missing letters:

Ashmolean - Trip 1

School has continued though the blog has not. Below are a couple of photos from our first of what I assume will be many trips to the Ashmolean Museum.

Nick read some Cuneiform to the boys.

Blueberries for Sal

The boys correctly ordered events from the book Blueberries for Sal:

and they made a chart of words that do/do not begin with "B":

Greek with Nick

Our internet has been down, so I wasn't able to post these photos from last Friday.Nick is continuing to teach Cooper and Noah Greek. 

Cooper worked on copying a portion of Scripture:

Noah reviewed the Greek alphabet:

Caleb entertained himself:

Peter and Wolf followed by Augustine

I've concluded that daily blogging is not necessarily (or, not likely) going to happen. I'll try to post often and will include multiple days at times. 

In music, we listened to Peter and the Wolf  while working on coloring sheets of string instruments.

The coloring sheets will be compiled in a book to help us remember members of the string family.

Caleb did his own thing:

In art, we worked on line designs to help reinforce vertical, horizontal, and diagonal.

We read about Augustine in our book, The ABCs of Church History, and then the boys pin-pointed Hippo on a world map.

Today ended with some baking. Yummy!

Maps and More

Before starting our new lesson on geography, we did a quick review of last week's lesson on the solar system. With no prompts, Noah began singing our solar system song, "Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto...Nine planets revolve around the sun." As an aside, we did talk about Pluto now being considered a dwarf planet, but I didn't think it necessary to change the song.

Our new lesson focused on maps. After a bit of reading, the boys prepared to create a map of our garden. They viewed from above:

and then created a map, complete with a color-coded key:

  

Art: Lines

We're learning the basic elements of art. This week's lesson was on "line."

The boys demonstrate a horizontal line:

They practiced drawing various types of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines:

Caleb decided to eat lunch outside:

Curious George and the String Family

We had our first music lesson today. The boys were incredibly attentive while we learned about and listened to members of the string family of instruments. After the lesson, they each had a chance to try out our new lap harp.

Cooper will begin doing reading comprehension and other activities related to books that we're reading. Today we read the original Curious George.

Day 2: Lesson in Chaos Management

I decided to read to the little guys while Cooper finished a review activity. This allowed him some uninterrupted time to work and kept Noah and Caleb content - breakthrough for all of us.

We began studying the universe (think macro, not micro level) yesterday in geography. The boys correctly ordered the planets in our solar system and then worked on a coloring sheet.

Our science lesson today was on animal body parts. After reading and discussing from our textbook, Cooper read a related reader.

First Day of School!

School is back in session at the Reid house.

Caleb was present though he participated in only a few activities.