This week has been tough getting use to the Time Change. Ladybug asked me 3 mornings in a row if we lost another hour last night! We had more snow and ice this week and even lost a few pine trees. Thankfully, we have heat and power. Praise the Lord!
Here's a look at our MFW 1st Grade Week 5!
On our first day of Week 5, we had a new "student" join.
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| My most quiet student! |
Bible: Our Proverbs for this week is Proverbs 16:24 ("Pleasant words are honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones"). On Day 2 of this week, Ladybug copied the Proverb for handwriting practice. We talked about how our words should be kind and sweet (like honey). The teacher's manual suggested a visual for this. I put honey in a spoon and pieces of trash in another spoon. Using the prompts, I explained that honey is sweet and yummy. Our words are to be like this spoonful of honey: sweet, kind and encouraging. Holding up the spoonful of trash, I continued. But unkind and mean words are like this spoonful of trash: terrible and ugly. I used the questions from the teacher's manual to ask Ladybug and Buddy, what kind of words do they like to hear and what kind of words does GOD like to hear. This was a great way to show that are words (and our thoughts and actions) are to be pleasant and sweet...like honey!
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| How pleasant are YOUR words today? |
Grammar: We are continuing to learn long vowels. Ladybug is doing well with the long vowels and it went smoother this week. I appreciate that each day in her workbook, we review what we learned from the previous day. This helps it stick!
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| Ladybug's Workbook Page |
Ladybug loved making her Animal Tales book in Week 4, and she was a little sad when we finished it. Thankfully, her bean seeds (from Week 3), and our other science projects have kept her busy!
Math: We are working our way through the Complete Book of Math (CBOM) workbook. According to the teachers manual, we are still behind. Ladybug hasn't been coloring her math pages as much these days, so we may "catch up" soon. Our math pages have been covering skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s. This is review for Ladybug (she learned to skip count in our Classical Conversations community). We also use the Number of the Day sheets (The master copy is in Teacher's manual) and math ideas/games (also from Teachers Manual) daily.
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| Here's what a Number of the Day sheet looks like! Our number this day was 19. |
Science: This week we studied "Why does it rain?" We learned about the water cycle.
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| Water Cycle Coloring Sheet (click here to print your own) |
Every day, millions of tiny drops rise up into the air, from lakes, rivers and seas. This is called Evaporation. We made our own "lake" using a glass of water. We filled the glass with water and I wrote (with a dry erase marker) "Day one" on the glass cup and marked the water level. On Day Four, we checked the water level again. Over one-fourth of an inch (water) had evaporated!
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| Our "Lake" |
When lots of these tiny drops of water get together (float) in the same part of the sky, they make a cloud. Clouds float because they are light! BUT, if the tiny drops bump into each other, they combine and form bigger water drops. When these drops become heavy enough, they fall back to Earth. We call this RAIN.
We made our own "rain clouds" using shaving cream, cups of water, and water diluted with food dye. The shaving cream (cloud) floated because it was light. Once we added the water diluted dye (with the eye droppers) the "cloud" became too heavy, and it rained!
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Making Rain Clouds Are FUN!!
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| Daddy helped with Pumpkin during Science Project Time |
This week we had fun painting with watercolors and acrylics!
Wow, what a great week this has been! Thank you for following along!
Here's a few updates on our Science projects from Week 3 and 4!
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