Unit 17 of LHFHG and Preparing

   This will be our last unit for the year in both guides!! We will finish up the other half of them next year for first and fourth grades!!!  I have one big end of the year unit that all three kids will do next week before we call our year officially over! 

LHFHG

*Calendar: The end is near!! Ian is doing great on his calendar skills!!! 

*Phonics: What a great start to the week! Ian read two short storie in lesson 5 of TRL and distinguished all of his b and d sounds and letters!! 

*Fine Motor: For practice we wrote some sight words and numbers. Ian's writing is getting much better!! 

*Math: I am loving all this review with Ian! He is doing so well and I can tell that he really leaves his math this year. 

*Storytime: Being angry does not help anyone! That was the moral of our reading today. Longlegs and Whitetail were mad at each other because neither one of them caught Grandfather Frog. 

*History/Rhyme: Today we read about Jesus walking with two men who did not recognize him at first. This happened after he rose again. We also did our rhyme. 

*Bible/Music: After listening to our new song for the unit Ian and I worked on his new bible verse. 

*Rotating:Today was a thinking game. We kind of skipped it since it was similar to one we did last unit. We went outside and finished up our school instead. 

Preparing

*Reading: The girls had a nice time doing their reading outside today!! We are still finishing up reading our adventure books. 

*Writing: I let each girl choose their own topic to write about for the week. Audrey is writing about getting a pet horse and Ally is writing about taking a month long trip to DisneyWorld. 

*Language: We did review of diagramming and finding subjects and predicates. The girls did well on this. We are using the worksheets from RS level 3. 

*Poetry: Our poem for this unit is called The Moon. We read through it and discussed it. 

*Bible: We will be working on Pslam 98:1-9 this week. Singing the song and discussing the verse were on our list of to do for today 

*Math: Since the girls finished their CLE for this year I am just letting them do xtramath.org each day to keep their skills up. They LOVE this!!! It makes their day just a little shorter :) 

*Science: Reading more about stars and constellations was done before the girls added the verse Job 9:9 and added one more constellation. 

*History Reading: I read chapter 32 of a CHOW about Hannible conquering Italy and Rome winning the next two Punic Wars against Carthage. We did some discussion questions. They enjoyed doing our lesson outside. 

*Independent History: Chapter 2 of Little Miraim of Galilee and doing a retelling of their reading was what we did. I think I may have to read this book along with them!! 

*History Project: Our project for this unit is to make a Roman coin, a denarius. We used bread, glue, and coffee. It was so much fun but super messy and did not work out well for us. I had the girls draw coins instead. 

*Rotating: We used the Internet to learn about the Roman denarius. The girls did great with their research!!! 

Day 2

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*Calendar: Ian does his calendar all on his own!!! 

*Phonics: We did some reading with Ian's MFW homework and a few pages of TRL. 

*Fine Motor: We had to cut and glue words and match them to their picture. 

*Math: Reviwing number writing and counting were today's skills. 

*Storytime: Grandfather Father is a greedy frog. Even though he was full he stuffed a big fish in his mouth and nearly choked! 

*History/Rhyme: Our story was about doubting Thomas. He has to see Jesus's scars to believe. We also sang our rhyme. 

*Bible/Music: Our verse is Matthew 18:29. We sang our song and traced some of our verse and then played a game to help learn it. 

*Rotating: Art was our lesson today. We made a symmetrical painting with our handprint to show that Jesus had to show his hands to the disciples before they believed. 

Preparing

*Reading: For a reading project now hat their adventure books are done the girls will be creating a comic strip and a movie poster about their books! 

*Writing: The girls added all the needed parts to their writing and then published them! 

*Language: We are still reviewing skills from RS 3. It seems the vocabulary has been forgotten. 

*Poetry:  Today was creative writing day!! We used personification to write about the sun. 

*Bible: We talked about the mood of our verses. 

*Math: xtramath is going great!! We are doing all four main operations for fast practice review. 

*Science: The girls had 

to read an orally narrate to me about their reading on stars. 

*History Reading: In our lesson today we learned how the Romans copied many thing from the Greeks and that they also thought of new things on their own. They built  roads and passed laws still used in Rome. They also used slavery with the people they conquered. 

*Independent History: After reading Little Miriam of Galilee chapter 3 the girls made a t chart comparing Jewish and Roman children. 

*Rotating: Today we did vocabulary for the unit. 

Day 3

LHFHG

*Calendar: Ian can skip count by two from 2 to 20 on his own!!! 

*Phonics: We made some short vowel words, wrote some, and read a few pages in TRL. We are still on lesson 5. 

*Fine Motor: Today we just wrote numbers and worked on our jumping jacks for coordination practice. 

*Math: We did some counting and number writing as well as some work on the days of the week 

*Storytime: We read about Grandfather Frig being Greedy and choking on a fish! 

*History/Rhyme: After our rhyme we read about Jesus teaching the disciples how to be saved. Then, he went back to heaven. 

*Bible/Music: Once we finished copying our verse and sang our song we practiced saying the verse all together. Ian also finished all of his AWANA reviews in his book!!! 

*Rotating:  We just talked about ways we can share the good news of Jesus with others. 

Preparing

*Reading: The girls finished reading their adventure books. They made a comic strip and a movie poster for their books. 

*Writing: I am having the girls write about their third grade year this week!! 

*Language: We are still going through a review of RS 3 with the review worksheets. 

*Poetry: After reading the poem "The Moon" the girls leaned that the poet Robert Louis Stevenson was awake many nights due to his sickness and coughing and would often watch the moon and the nighttime animals. 

*Bible: Bible Quiet times was done today. The girls are getting better about it and I am trying not to harp on them for it being so short! It is the start of a beautiful thing that I do not want to spoil for them. 

*Math: Both girls are doing very well in their xtramath review!!! 

*Science: After reading a page on our star book, the girls had some questions to answer about some of the constellations. 

*History Reading: The girls gave me an oral narration about Julius Caesar and how he fought pirates as a young man and grew up to command the Roman army. 

*Independent History: After reading a few pages in Little Miriam they had to copy Luke 2:1 into their common place book. 

*Rotating: Today we did some geography. We reviewed the equator and the hemispheres along with the continents. We also looked at the countries conquers by Caesar. 

Day 4

LHFHG

*Calendar: Only 10 days of school left for us!!! Yay!!!! 

*Phonics: We did our letter/sound/sight word review, read a small MFW reading book, and worked some on lesson 5 of TRL. 

*Fine Motor: Ian practiced his coloring and his handwriting skills today. 

*Math: We reviewed shapes, numbers, and following directions. 

*Storytime: After reading about Grandfather Frog and Mr. Toad arguing about the best place to live Ian did a small writing about where he lives. 

*History/Rhyme: Ian did not want to do his rhyme. Usually by day 4 he is burnt out on it. In our bible we read about Jesus telling the diciples to spread the Good News as he rose up into heaven. 

*Bible/Music: Our verse is totally traced and almost memorized! We enjoy singing along with our song. 

*Rotating: We did a science experiment to show demonstrate the rising of Jesus into heaven. We used raisins, water, vinegar, and baking soda. 

Preparing

*Reading: The girls finished their reading project!! They created a movie poster about their book and rated it with stars on the back with a written summary. 

*Writing: The girls wrote about about their third grade year! I was happy with some of the things they remembered and what they each liked and did not like. 

*Language: We are still reviewing and will do so through our summer break!! 

*Poetry: Thr girls added an illustration to the poem of what the poem made them think about when reading it. 

*Bible: The girls had to copy the final verses of our Pslams 98:1-9 into their common place book and sing along to their song. 

*Math: Xtramath and math games finished up our math week!! 

*Science: Today was experiment day. We had to find out why constellations only show upbeat night. We discovered that even though constellations are out in the day the sun makes it too bright to see them. 

*History Reading: Today was written narration day about the time of Augustus Caesar in Rome. 

*Independent History: After finishing rising chapter 4 of LM of G the girls coped Luke 2:4 and 2:11 into their common place books. 

*Rotating: The girls added to their timeline about Julius Caesar and Hannible crossing the Alps. 

Day 5

LHFHG

*Calendar: We are down to single digits left in our kindergarten year!! 

*Phonics: After going through sight words and letter reviews we did some pages in TRL. 

*Fine Motor: Ian did some handwriting practice for his co op homework. 

*Math: We counted backwards and also counted pennies! 

*Storytime: Grandfather Frog had decided to venture out into the great world! He did not like Jerry Muskrat telling him that he was too old to do it! 

*History/Rhyme: We read about the diciples preaching through the power of the Holy Spirit!! 

*Bible/Music: Ian can say his whole verse! He does it better with the song :) 

*Rotating: For a science lesson we talked about our skin and the sense of touch that God gave us. We felt different textures. 

Extras we do each week: 

Piano practice for the girls 15 minutes each day with a 30 minute lesson once a week. 

Keyboarding using Keyboarding Without Tears twice a week for all three kids. 

I also try to get them active each day with various activities from their sports and dance to playing outside, going to the park, putting in a PE video, you tube videos, elliptical, taking a walk, and more!! 

Journals: Each week the kids do a journal entry. Usually it is free write time but sometimes I do give them a topic. I throw in math lessons sometimes as well. 

Co op is attended once a week for all of us! We to on Tuesdays from 9-12. The girls are taking MFW Adventures in History and Apologia Flying Creatures. Ian is taking MFW Creation A to Z and Emersyn is in the nursery. I teach Kindergarten with Abeka K5. 

Highlights of the Week of April 25 - 29, 2016

In our weekly video it is all about those books!!! Each of the kids shares something pertaining to a book they read this week, even my little one!! 

https://www.facebook.com/lisa.vanevera/videos/10209553663261946/?l=8175160426110041728

Hightlights of the Week of May 2 - 6, 2016 

We finished up our HOD for the year!! 

We took a family trip to Silver Dollar City since we had no ballgames or birthday events this weekend! 

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there! 

For our weekly video I sat the kids down and asked them some questions about our year! 
https://www.facebook.com/lisa.vanevera/videos/10209608038781300/?l=5609489022995116321