As usual, today we started off with Math. It really seems like we've been doing least/less/one less all week, but tomorrow ends it, so that's good. I first had Babe estimate which color dog had the least amount in this pile.
She guessed red. Then I had her sort them by color, and estimate again which color had the least amount.
"I still think red. But maybe yellow. I think they are really close."
So, then I had her create a bar graph with the dogs themselves.
"I knew blue was the most! Look how tall the bar is! Red and yellow look the same, so that means we have to count to see which is least, right?"
Well OK then. So, she counted the dogs. Red had 11, yellow had 12.
"Oh they were so close, but I was right!"
I'd say Babe has made huge progress in her estimation skills from a week ago. Even she knew how well she did today. She was really proud!
So she did her worksheets, and Math was done.
We continued with the normal routine and worked on our color project, today being white. Z is officially a gluer - he's no longer pouring the glue all around the paper. He's actually using one dot at a time, putting the glue down, putting something on the glue, and continuing the circle. AMAZING. Not even two years old!
Because of the amazing cold front, I stopped the lesson for the morning and we went for a walk and played outside before lunch. They didn't even want to come in after 40 minutes! But it was time to make lunch, and all three of them will do anything for WordWorld.
After lunch and naps, I went over punctuation marks with Babe. She knew what each one was, and she knew that with an exclamation point, you are supposed to say it really loud or excitedly. She loves pointing those out in all the books she reads.
With the question mark, she knew what it was but when I asked her to read an asking sentence from "In the Big Blue Sea", she read it as if it was a statement. So then I read it, but I asked her to pay attention to what my voice does at the end of the sentence.
"Your voice kind of goes up."
Exxxxactly.
So I had her try and she did it perfectly. I then told her that from now on, when reading a book, she has to pay attention to the end punctuation mark to see how she is supposed to read the sentence - loudly, as a statement, or by making her voice go up at the end.
After Reading Comp., I did a little exercise with her about shades of color. I brought out my 120 crayon box and had her sort them by color.
Bubs actually did her own little sorting exercise and told me she made a pattern.
"See? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!"
So cute.
After Babe sorted, I grabbed up the purple pile and had her draw a little box with each color, then keep the crayons in order of what she colored (to remember which purple colored which box). Then she numbered them and I cut them out.
I then had her put the purples in order from lightest to darkest.
There were eleven shades of purple so no doubt it was pretty tough, but I was very impressed with her work.
She was very confident in her choices and I really couldn't tell her otherwise, so when she was done putting her little boxes in order, I had her glue them and draw bigger boxes with her order.
It sounds pretty confusing...sorry! But she completely understood it. As she was coloring her bigger boxes she said, "It looks like a bar graph! It's like a color graph!"
Ha. Cute.
I plan on doing this with another color tomorrow. It's good practice and she had fun with it.
To end the day, I handed her "My Many Colored Days" by Dr. Seuss for her reading log. I've never even heard of this book! I loved it. Babe was ready for the day to end by now, but during her second read-through, she caught her second wind and finished strong.
And with that, our day was done!
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