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Aug. 22, 2005
Today, I decided to make more of an
effort to make sure that I am not trying to push my daughter. I
think our pace has been good for the most part, but the day does seem
to drag on. I tend to look at the clock when we start and again
when the last lesson is put away and think..."Whoa. We spent way
too much time on this." But then I think, somewhere in there we
took a walk, watched a show, had naptime for the younger ones and free
play time for dd6. She is not sitting and studying that long.
For bible today we spent more time on the concept of "created in His
image." I got out my clay, showed her how to mix the colors and
had her look closely at herself in the mirror. She made a little
clay face "in her image." We talked about what she would want the
image of her to do if she could breathe the breath of life into it like
God. She said she would want it to do good things, and then
decided she would have it do her work for her. We talked about
how that is kind of what God wants for us, as well. We were
created "unto all good works." That might be what we get into
next. I have to think about it. I had been planning on
moving into the ten commandments and the beatitudes as a model of how
God wants us to be.
It has been almost a week since we have had a formal time to work on
the phonograms from Writing Road to Reading, so I need to get started
again before I get out of the habit. I will probably do that this
afternoon. My dd2 is sick, so we'll see what I get too between
all the snuggling for a sick boy and an infant daughter.
In
math, we are still working on number bonds and did the same activity
with the bean counters I described earlier, except with the number
seven. She figured out that if
5 + 2 = 7, then 2 + 5 = 7
too. That sounds obvious to an adult, but a good deal of my class
seemed to stick there when I used to teach first grade. I was so
happy she got it entirely on her own. I didn't even ask any
leading questions. I was going to work on that later. We're
wrapping up the concept of order and making personal applications for
how to order our lives to please God. Tomorrow, I want to start
on the concept of "immutability" but I'm not sure if she will
understand it. She might understand "unchangeable."
Last
night, we read another chapter of Mary Slessor, Queen of Calabar for
geography. Mary has just gotten to the mission post in Nigeria,
and we enjoyed following her journey on the map. We also got a
brief introduction to the wildlife of the area, and dd6 is keeping a
log of the animals as they are mentioned. Despite all her
confidence in Scotland, she is experiencing the first twinges of fear.
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