Creation Day 3

Day 3: God made seas, dry land, and plants.

Caden is adding the fruit to his trees in his creation book...

 Adding flowers and plants to creation book...

Day 3 finished product...

Caden working on his Creation Poster number 3

Rinsing the rocks for our aquarium...

Dax putting rocks in aquaruim 

Caden adding rocks...

 Day 3 of our aquarium...

Day 3 Snack...Dirt Cake...yum!

Caden working on writing his letters...MawMaw Jan got him these dry erase practice sheets...pretty nifty!

How Caden holds his pencil...uses all his fingers...

Count down until Caden's birthday...42 more days...helps us practice counting.

Practicing recognizing our letters...was having trouble getting him to really try, so I decided to reward him which helped a little.  I mix the cards up and ask him to point to specific letters. 

Today we didn't do all this at once.   We did the artsy stuff and the aquarium and then had lunch and had dirt cake.  Then Caden played a little while and we practiced letters.  Then he watched a show and we did our daily board and letters.  Sometimes doing it all at once is a little much, so we do it different every day. 

Tomorrow we watch little Sophia and its our first day with her, so we aren't really sure how it is going to work...but we are sure excited to have a little girl in the house to play with!



Creation Day 2

Dax working on his numbers...

Caden learning to write...he doesn't hold his pencil right yet...will take some practice.

Outside checking to see what the weather is like...adding it to our board.

Adding day 2 of school to our chart and adding the stick into the bucket.

The next page of our creation book...God made the sky.  God divided the water above and below the sky.

Our next number on our Days of Creation poster.

Adding the water to our fish tank that MawMaw Jan got us for our birthdays.

Eating our water and clouds jello.

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First Day of School

I am so excited to get started teaching my kids.  My friend, Bre, told me about this curriculum she had found called My Father's World, http://www.mfwbooks.com./  My original plan was to use the same curriculum as her because I had witnessed success with it and she seemed to like it, but as I looked over the MFW curriculum I fell in love.  Caden technically isn't supposed to start kindergarten until next fall, but I have been so excited I couldn't wait, so we started today. 

We started out the day by doing our daily board...I got this idea from http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/Calendar.html... it isn't quite finished yet, but it is workable. 

Caden and Dax each got to color thier own 100 Days of school sheet.  Each day we put one stick in the bucket on the daily board.  They also get to circle the date on their calendar with the color and shape of the day...today it was red and a circle.  This will help reinforce their colors and shapes.

Our first unit is creation.  I have found so many neat ideas that I am excited to share.  Today we learned about day 1 and God separated the light from the darnkess.  As we go through this process we are going to set up a fishtank according to the days of creation, so today we turned on the light.

We also separtated the light chocolate chips form the dark chocolate chips.

We are also creating a creation number poster...today we put the 1 on it that illustrated the separation of light and darkness and each day we will add a number to illustrate that day of creation.  When we are done we will leave them hanging in our school room so we can use them to review.

They are also making their own creation book so they can read it and remember the days of creation.



And last but not least they had cookies that were vanilla on one side and chocolate on the other and they pulled them apart to represent God separating the light from the darkness.