Friday Wrap Up

This week was  fun one. We are finally getting back into the swing of things when it comes to getting back into the swing of school.

This week in kindergarten we finished up with the Sun Unit. This is the first of the unit studies that are done in the My Fathers World program so the first week is always a bit rough.

So what did we do?

Well, first we all started our school time at the table together. Each kiddo took some time practicing some writing skills based on their age and level. Some were writing numbers, other letters, and another just coloring and loving the fun color options.

On Monday we put some grapes in a container in the window and we are going to see how long it takes for the sun to turn them into raisins. (Don't worry we don't plan on eating them!) Arielle things it will take 10 days for the raisins to be complete. I am pretty sure it will take a bit longer than that.

The rest of the week we talked about the sun and its effects. We studied how the earth tuns and moves around the sun and we learned about shadows.

The Book of the Week was Bear Shadow by Frank Asch.
This is a story about a little bear who tries to get rid of his shadow. It was cute to go through and the pictures are wonderful!







This week in First Grade we continued with most of our lessons from last week

We continued our study on the human body in science. We got to go through the digestive system which for a 6 year old boy was all kinds of fun (Any time you can talk about poop it's bound to be a good time) We learned how the digestive system works, the different names of the organs and muscles in our digestive system, and where to find them in our bodies. We are adding new labels to our human body charts each week. Soon we will know where everything in our body is and how it all works together.

In history this wear we are studying Ancient History. This week we continued along in our study of Ancient Egypt learning about King Tut, and adding to our Ancient Egypt timeline. Dart is really enjoying his studies on the Ancient time period so far. I hope we keep having a good time.

We are trucking along in our learning to read lessons and we also began some long vowel sound practice as well. Math this week was ordinal number. We had a lot of fun with that too. We go to pull out the shapes and do some fun math learning with those.

In Bible we are journeying through the life and ministry of Jesus in Matthew. This week we learned about Jesus' compassion and mercy through His teachings. It was especially fun because Dad got in on the learning with us for Bible on Thursday. Everyone had a good time learning about mercy and we even had a fun craft to go with it!

This was the last week that we had one of our friends here with us all the time so we also took some extra time to just play and enjoy the company. His little sister will keep coming to play at our house during the week but he is starting kindergarten in his new school on Monday! We will miss having him here to play with us but it will be an exciting new adventure for him.

So there you have it. Our weekly wrap up for what we learned in school this week. Next week I am hoping to incorporate some new things into our day to hopefully keep the tone nice and calm and less frantic. Stay tuned on Sunday evening to see what we will be learning about next week.

Thanks for stopping by!