Today was a very weird day time-wise, so Math was a little rushed, but we still got everything in. Babe already knows how to count by 10s all the way up to 100, so a lot of it was review. Tomorrow we will work on the spelling of each ten.
In Reading Comp., we reviewed yesterday's book and Babe did her worksheet.
After lunch, I got out Babe's season posters and had her put them in order. She did.
I then had her write two adjectives for each season. She did.
Next, we continued our discussion on Martin Luther King, Jr. I had her remind me who he was, what he did in 1963, and what his famous saying was. She answered everything correctly. I asked her what some of his dreams were.
"He had a dream that we would all be friends, no matter what color our skin was."
Perfect.
Then we had craft time where I had Babe and Bubs trace their hands on two different colored paper. I cut out Bubs' hands, then had her glue them together as if they were holding hands. Babe did the same. Now they had a model of one of MLK's dreams!
Babe then did her Checkpoints, and we were done with Calvert for the day. There were still two more activities I had planned though, so I will go into those.
Today, Babe received her letter from the blind boy she is now a pen pal with. Last week, through the wonders of YouTube, Babe was able to watch the boy figure out what she sent him (a fork, remember?). It was a really cool experience. So my sister had her blind student write a letter back to Babe. It was obviously written in Braille. At the end of the letter, the boy typed the Braille alphabet, along with a sentence that my sister left un-translated. It was up to Babe to translated the sentence. And she did! Tomorrow we will write him back if time allows!
When she was all done translating, I got out a homemade game I wanted to play during our dentist discussion last week but lost the time. Both girls loved this game. It is a counting game, and Bubs did very well at it! The point of the game was to fill their "mouth" with "teeth" first.
Then of course after a few rounds, we enjoyed the treat of the "teeth."
And with that, the day was really done! First half of the week behind us!
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