4th Week, 2nd Day

If you are reading this daily, I'm sorry for an absent post yesterday! I was recovering from burning a few fingers while making dinner. I will try to remember as much as I can about yesterday, so I apologize ahead of time for a possible shorter post.

In Math yesterday, Babe learned about trapezoids and polygons. She knew what a trapezoid looks like, and how to draw one. Then I told her the definition of a polygon - a shape with no curves. After she was clear on each, we did a listening activity where she drew what I asked her.

I was asking her to draw random shapes, to make sure she knew how to draw each. Then I asked her to draw three shapes in red that are not polygons. Are you surprised that her first one was a heart? I'm not.

When she did really good with that, we practiced counting the sides of polygons. When I asked her to draw a polygon with six sides, she really couldn't figure it out, even though I told her it did not have to be symmetrical, or look even. She didn't care. She was getting a little frustrated that she wasn't able to do it, so I switched it around and had her ask me to draw the shape. Then I asked her to count the sides and label how many sides it had. Before we put this away, I asked her to draw me a three-sided polygon.

"A triangle!"

After that, she caught on. I had her then draw a four-sided polygon.

"A square! Is an eight-sided polygon an octagon?"

Alrighty then. Worksheet. Math Done.

For Reading Comprehension we read "Here Are My Hands" by Bill Martin Jr. It was a quick read and Babe knows the function of all the body parts, so she was getting bored quick and I couldn't ask any more challenging questions, so we were done for the morning.

After lunch, we jumped into Science with the sense of touch. I created a touch box for her and then blindfolded her. Then asked her to first feel everything in the box. When she felt like she had, I asked her to pull out a certain thing (the cylinder, the roughest item, the softest item, the thinnest item).

She had a lot of fun with this, so she asked if she could make a touch box for me. She emptied the box and carried it around the house, picking up random things. Then she blindfolded me and asked me the questions.

"OK, find the crab."

"The crab?"

"Yeah! Well, it's a silly band, but it's shaped like a crab."

I laughed in my head for a long time.

Well, I honestly can't remember what else we did yesterday, but I do know that was the bulk of the day. She had dance so we were done early anyway. And after singing her song in the car on the way, we were officially done for the day!