Today was a huge school today. Huge as in, Babe did so much, and worked all day. And it was all amazing.
Math today was a a review on number sentences, both addition and subtraction, so I brought out the connecting cubes again had Babe both build the sentences and figure out the answer to ones I built. She did this for a good 20 minutes before her boredom kicked in, but going for that long amazed me. She quickly did her worksheet, and then Math was done.
I then gathered all the kids into the living room for interactive storytime with "The Woodcutter's Cap." I first handed them each an animal featured in the story, either a stuffed animal or a toy that Babe found in her room. I think we had two stuffed animals and three Squinkies. ha! I found a beanie in the closet and as I read the story, the kids came up one by one to put their animals in the hat. Towards the end, it was becoming a tight squeeze, just like in the story.
When I finished reading, I asked Babe if she remembered the order of animals that found the hat. She did!
We then headed to the table for craft time. I prepared a sheet for each of them with the animals from the story that they colored and cut out. Then they each made a cozy, comfy "hat" and glued the animals onto it. This took a long time but they were so quiet while they concentrated on coloring each animal and cutting them out. Bubs impressed me with her cutting skills today! She cut out each of her seven animals all by herself!
After clean up, we headed outside to enjoy the weather, cloudy or not!
After lunch, Babe did her worksheet on "The Woodcutter's Cap", still remembering the order of animals. Amazing.
Next, I handed her a map of the United States of America and showed her how each of the fifty states had a capital, symbolized with a star. I asked her to find the biggest star on the map, and that would be our country's capital.
Once she found it, I asked her what the name of it was.
"Washington, D.C."
"Yep! Why do you think it's called Washington, D.C."
"Ohhh because of George Washington! The first president!"
Awesome. I get chills when she remembers stuff like this.
Then I brought out a book that showed pictures of the White House, the Capitol building, and the Washington Monument (which Babe referred to as "a crayon"). I then showed her the Lincoln Memorial.
"Look! That's where Martin Luther King said 'I have a dream!'"
WOW! More chills.
We reviewed the facts about George Washington ("he kicked England out of America!"), and then we worked on Science.
Today, Babe made a weather mobile featuring different weather symbols for tools of measurement and actual weather. I had her sort the icons and when she did, I showed her how to tie them all together to make a mobile. We will start next week with marking the weather of each day with labeled clothespins.
She worked really hard on the mobile and it was such a long day that she started to get frustrated at the end. I reminded her of how hard she worked to do all the tying and that she wouldn't want to ruin it now! She finished strong and was pretty proud of it afterwards.
After Checkpoints, we were DONE. A solid day!
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