Well, today was another super simple day for lessons in our home. Its snowing here, and I can't seem to keep a fire going in the fireplace effectively, so its been difficult finding the energy to really do much of anything.
Melissa started with a math lesson. Today we did more practicing of determing even and odd numbers up to 10, and then we practiced counting to 10 by two's. She really did *not* like the lesson because this is a totally new concept to her, so she spent half our our 20 minute lesson time whining and complaining while trying to sneak out of her seat to hide under the table. There's a reason we keep lesson time for each subject short, when it gets difficult she usually starts whining horribly. Then she did 2 pages in her handwriting book, and ended with a couple pages in her Explode The Code book (we're still on the primers with her, as review and fun stuff for her as well as to help her start breaking down the individual sounds in words to help with reading and spelling)
Lydia did another letter sheet today, this one she drew a picture of an Aa item (she chose apple) then she wrote what it is on the line (I had to spell it for her though, no biggie she'll get to that point on her own eventually) She also did a review page from her shapes workbook. She finished up with a page in her handwriting book.
Kimmy colored in a page for the colors red and blue. The pages just had drawings of things that color and we talked about the color and then went over what the items she was coloring are. Then I showed her the right crayons to use, and she did her page. She finished up the rest of lessons time with her number puzzle again, she really likes that thing.
Tonight the girls are going to AWANA for bible, and then tomorrow we'll pick up their memory verses for our bible study until the next AWANA time. Then tomorrow we have gymnastics, so it'll be a busy day there. Ugh, I'm already tired just thinking about it.......... lol
1 comment:
Ahh, the joy of math. Not my daughter's favorite either, and a definite whine inducer some days!
A fun thing we did for odds and evens was lay out number cards 1-10 and put snacks on them like cheerios, chocolate chips, or pretzel sticks. Then she named the evens and got to eat those. I named the odds and got to eat them. Then we switched.
Also, count socks by two! This made sense to her for some reason( I think because they COME in twos). So we laid out pairs of socks, folded them together into pairs, and counted.
Keep it up! Slow and steady work for weeks is better than a lot of work one or two days and burning out for a week or more!
Wasn't the snow crazy today? The kids liked it though I'm not wanting to drive in it tomorrow. Hope the girls have fun in gymnastics!
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