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We sort of had a half day today so we could get caught up on some things around the house. Here's what we accomplished schoolwise:
We began today as usual with our Bible lesson in Leading Little Ones To God. The lesson was entitled "God Knows All Things". We talked about how God even knows the things we think in our mind and the things we do when we think no one else can see us. We talked about the importance of honesty and always doing what's right, even if we think no one would find out if we did something wrong. I also told him that God knows so much that he even knows how many hairs are on our head and how many stars are in the sky! And, not only does he know what has happened, but he also knows what will happen.
We read Madeline again, but this time DS read it to me. He loves to use intonation when reading, imitating the way that I read to him. In preparation for our study of poetry that we will be doing tomorrow, we located all the rhyming words and discussed how the story flows, line to line, with the use of these rhymes. We also talked about how the rhyming words are always at the end of a phrase or sentence, so that they match up with the next rhyming word, which is also at the end of a phrase or sentence.
Our Bible application today dealt with appreciating those things that are right and good and turning away from those things that are wrong and evil. This was a good review of "discernment", which we learned about during our The Story About Ping study. We looked at the part in the book where the girls "smile at the good and frown at the bad..."
We looked up the following verses in our family Bible:
"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things." Philippians 4:8
"My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them." Proverbs 1:1
"But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil." Hebrews 5:14
Then, we had a brief history lesson, discussing certain items in the book and comparing them to modern day devices:
1. The crank on the bed vs. the buttons that were on Mom's hospital bed when I had the baby
2. The steam radiator heater vs. our electric baseboards
3. The old ambulance vs. a modern one
We did a few math lessons in our Saxon K book. We are working through this book pretty quickly and hope to be finished with it by Christmas so that we can start Saxon 1. A few lessons a day only takes about 20 minutes...unless we start having fun and decide to spend more time with it! DS is currently learning about graphs, money, and telling time.
Plus, he does some work book pages now and then for addition and subraction of single and double digit numbers.
While I got caught up on some cleaning and record-keeping, DS watched Madeline on video - what a cute movie!
DS read out loud from Friends Old And New and I read the next chapter to him from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at bedtime. This read-aloud is really helping to develop his listening skills since he is enjoying it so much and can't wait to see what happens next!
Day 5 will be fun...French food!
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