Week 2

Our second week went well. On Monday, Mom-mom was over so the whole morning was spent doing arts and crafts together. It wasn't really a school day, but they had a lot of fun. On Tuesday, we reviewed the short a vowel sound with paintings of an apple tree using the sides of their hands for the trunk and their fingerprints for leaves and apples.

Joey's tree

Katie's "tree" :)

We then learned this cute little finger play:

Way up high in the apple tree (arms over head)
Two little apples smiled at me. (hands into fists and smile)
I shook that tree as hard as I could (shake fists)
And down came the apples (bring hands down)

Mmm, (take "bite" out of fists) they were good! (rub belly)

Katie loves doing the finger play, her favorite part being when we take big "bites" out of the apples. Joey loves doing art projects, so a lot of what I do to reinforce concepts will probably be art projects.

Wednesday was a "field trip" to the doctors to see the baby on the ultrasound. Joey was excited when he could see the fingers and feet moving on the screen.

Thursday we painted on the plastic tablecloth with chocolate cool-whip that has been sitting in my freezer since I got it for free with a coupon a while back. Both the kiddos thought this was cool, but Katie tired of it more quickly than Joey.

He painted elephants and elbows and the letter E, and we said the short e vowel sound about one hundred times. I think he might be getting it.

The best part of Friday was reviewing our verse for the week, Proverbs 10:12, and drawing a picture booklet to represent the two ideas of stirring up strife, and acting out of love. Joey drew himself throwing mud at Katie for the first, and sharing cotton candy with her for the second.

I am picking verses to memorize that correspond with the character and discipline issues most often addressed in our home. Proverbs 10:12 was used quite often throughout the week, but it is a blessing to use the Word of God to correct their behavior instead of just the nagging words of mom.

Later we reviewed the short i vowel sound by making a 5 page stapled book of pictures Joey drew of things that begin with the short i sound. See, I told you lots of our activities will be art projects.

Two weeks down, only a gabillion more to go. We still love each other, so I think we are doing pretty well.