Babe was back to counting money in Math today, except this time I threw in a nickel. She had no idea how to count by fives at the beginning of the day, but by the end of her Math lesson, she could count to 20 by fives. That's huge to me! Calvert only wanted her to recognize the nickel today, but to make the worksheet more challenging, I had her count the change and write in the answer. She did amazing. On the other side of the sheet, she had to sort nickels and pennies, so I had her go get her sensory tub that had play coins from Oriental Trading in them.
After Math, there was some time before Bubs and Z's work time was done, so I let Babe work with the bins a bit. She liked lacing the heart! Z absolutely loves shoving BBQ skewers in a cheese shaker. haha
After the designated work time, we discussed more of Abraham Lincoln. I asked Babe to tell me everything she could remember about him and the first thing she did was impersonate him.
"NO MORE SLAVES!"
haha. So I asked her more questions about the Civil War, which she answered correctly, and about how and why Lincoln died. She also answered those correctly, though keeps forgetting John Wilkes Booth's name. Not an issue.
Just like last week with George Washington, they made Abraham Lincoln in toilet paper roll form. They all loved this.
They turned out so so cute.
After our toilet paper roll Abe, I told the kids to grab all the markers they could and head to the kitchen for a major coloring project. They got really excited while I secretly measured a huge roll of white paper and cut it at (what I thought) was 6 feet, 4 inches.
I then drew a very large stick man on it, but drew the face to be Abraham Lincoln. I told Babe that this was really how tall Abraham Lincoln was, though she didn't quite get the full effect as it was laying on the ground. So I had them all tackle the coloring.
While I cleaned up the dining room, I overheard Babe say something to her sister.
"NO! Don't color his head red! Actually, it's OK because he was shot in the head anyway."
I couldn't believe it! I didn't know whether to be grossed out or proud. So yes, our Abraham Lincoln has a huge red mark on his forehead.
When they were all done coloring, I hung it up on the dining room wall and drew a mark at each of our heights to compare.
Later on in the day, Babe's dad questioned the measurement and sure enough, I was off about seven inches. Apparently the way I measured and cut the paper was wacky, so I cut about seven inches from the bottom and retook the shot of Babe.
"He looks the same. He's still tall!"
haha. She was right. Seven inches doesn't matter much when you're only about three feet tall.
After lunch, I introduced Babe to the idea of the 5 Ws in story telling. I had her think of an idea for a story and had her write out something for each W. She did this well, but when she went to actually write the story, she had trouble relaying the information that she already wrote. She wanted to add so much more to the story instead of keeping it basic. So I'm not sure if she's already past this skill that she wants to elaborate or if she's not quite understanding the fact of how to write a story using the 5 Ws.
With some help, she ended up finishing her story. I told her tomorrow we were going to make it a book and that she would be able to illustrate it. She got excited about that, so we ended Writing on a good note.
After Writing, she added "My First Biography: Abraham Lincoln" by Marion Dane Bauer to her reading log. She had trouble with a few of the words but it was expected. With the illustrations in this book it was easier for her to understand the fight between the North and the South, so that was a plus.
After Reading, she had another cat nap for a hopefully completely healthy day tomorrow.
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