Transition Week - Day 5

What a hectic week! With birthday festivities and holidays, it's only right that this kind of week ends in the most hectic day of the year.

Babe knew that there was much to get done to prepare for her birthday party tomorrow, so she was pretty good about finishing all of school before lunch. We cruised through Math again, ending the mundane lessons and finally starting time next week.

Her writing/Reading Comp. lesson took much longer than I anticipated. We worked with weather adjectives earlier this week so I thought today's lesson on weather verbs would go just as smooth. Apparently not.

I first had her make a chart with sun, rain, and wind written at the top. Then under each type of weather, I wanted her to think of verbs pertaining to that weather. For sun, she started with things like "makes the flowers grow" and "makes you sweat." I counted those because I guess those are kind of verbs. haha. I told her to think of one more, but only one word. I said, "Complete this sentence: The sun..." She kept adding the word "is..." haha. It took her forever to think of "shines" and that was only after we moved onto wind and she told me that the wind blows. I told her that was a perfect verb! Just what I was looking for! And if she could think of one verb like that for sun. Then she figured it out. And then rain she thought of "drips" and "makes the sky dark."

Phew. Time to move on.

Today I introduced Babe to Valentine's Day. While researching St. Valentine, I found there were 14 St. Valentines and I had no idea where to start with Babe. Thank God for the book "Valentine's Day is..." by Gail Gibbons. It was the perfect book that explained the origin of the holiday and all modern-day symbols and traditions in a fun narrative way. I will be referring to it throughout the month during our Valentine's Day lesson days.

The last page of the book showed how today's families decorate for Valentine's Day, and hanging in the room were paper chains. Perfect, because that was the plan for today. Paper chains! I asked Babe to tell me three Valentine's Day colors.

"Purple, red, and pink."

Awesome. I then showed her how to cut strips of each color, and when she did that, I showed her how to round each strip, glue, etc. She was so fascinated, it was like I was teaching her some new form of science or something. I asked her to make the chain in an ABC pattern and she remembered exactly what that was. She sat there and glued a 38-link paper chain all by herself! It was amazing.

When I hung it on the mantle, I declared school over for the day! We packed up school and brought out all the Harry Potter stuff we needed to get things done for tomorrow!

As much fun as this week was, I can't wait until next week when the normal routine continues. Until then, have a great weekend!