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Today we started with lesson 10 in Leading Little Ones To God called God Is Three Persons. Wow, this was a difficult one. We spent a lot of time discussing this. I won't detail our discussion here, because I could probably write a book about it, but I think he understood to the best extent that a 6-year old can! This concept is even difficult for me to understand, and there are things that we will not fully understand until we are brought home to be with our Heavenly Father. But it has blessed my heart to see how much he is learning about who God is and about His love from this book. He asks some amazing questions, and I am so excited to answer them to the best of my ability!
We then read Madeline one last time and I expanded on our rhyming lesson from yesterday, explaining that the book is written in the form of a poem. I pulled out Where The Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein for more examples of poems. These poems are really silly, so we had some good laughs. We discussed how different they all were, how they didn't all rhyme, but they all had a rhythm. Then, we made up some simple 2 line "poems", to practice rhyming the lines:
"Kittens and cats Don't wear hats"
"Cats and kittens Don't wear mittens."
"We sweep the floor, then we mop some more!"
He started to get pretty silly with these short "poems", but this was a good introductory to the writing style and now he's been looking for poems everywhere!
We got out our Saxon K math book and did a couple of lessons in it. They were review of the last few that we have done. We moved from ABB color patterns into AABB color patterns.
DS read another story out of the Dick and Jane Basic Reader Friends Old And New called Fun For The Painter for reading practice.
Then, we did something fun! We went to a gym class with our local homeschool co-op! We haven't taken any of the co-op classes yet, so we are very excited about this! It's only once a month, but he met about 30 other homeschooled kids, plus I got to meet their moms! What a treat!
This is a great gym. It has all the colored mats, all shapes and sizes, trampolines, beams, rings, a huge floor mat, a climbing wall, a vault, too much to list! DS had so much fun that he wants to start doing gymnastics! I talked to DH about it and he said he thought that would be a really good thing for him, so we're going to enroll him in Beginner Boys Gymnastics! It will be every Tuesday for 1 hour. What a great physical outlet this will be for him! We are all very excited!
Then, we went to the store and purchase some ingredients for our French dinner. At home, DS helped me prepare the dinner and set the table. We learned how to properly set a table and we made it look all fancy. Then we had a wonderful time eating it!
Cracking Eggs
Putting together the quiches
Setting the table
Bacon and Ham Quiche
Yeast Rolls
Fruit Plate
Finished set table, complete with candles and wine glasses (filled with cranberry juice!)
As we ate, we discussed proper table manners: no elbows on the table, chewing with mouth closed, no talking with food in our mouth, no clinking the silverware or playing with our food, asking nicely for food to be passed, etc.
This was a fun, special meal...not to mention delicious! We actually made 2 quiches and extra rolls so we could have leftovers!
We finished the day by reviewing our week with DH and then reading another chapter of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Next week, we will celebrate Columbus Day on Monday, and then we will spend the rest of the week on How To Make An Apple Pie and See The World by Marjorie Priceman.
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