In Math today we reviewed the terms from Chapter 5. Babe was pretty much able to recall the definitions of every one of them. She did tell me that a circle had "two-thousand four hundred" sides though, but then I emphasized the word "sides" and she corrected herself.
"I meant that number about lines."
ha!
I then wrote a few family names on a sheet of paper and had her do a symmetry activity. I handed her a toothpick and asked her to find all the letters that had a line of symmetry, and then to draw the line(s).
She struggled a bit at first, but after I did the first two or three with her, she was on her own and did perfect.
"OK, but first I want you to recite all the poems you've learned so far."
"OK! I'm going to say them in order."
And she did! She remembered the order she learned them in. Crazy kid.
Today's poem: Little Boy Blue!
I was personally so excited because I brought out our old Mother Goose Time curriculum and saw that this day was left unopened, meaning I had enough for everyone to participate in this craft. And the craft? Making horns!
After we recited the poem multiple times, and after discussing why Little Boy Blue would need a horn to tend to sheep and cows, I gave them each the provided cardboard tube and had them choose the color they wanted to paint their horn. I splattered some paint in a paper plate and they proceeded to roll their tube in the paint.
They then decorated the rest of their horn pieces with corresponding color markers.
Then added the last touches.
And voila! Horns to fall asleep under the haystack with!
I told her to go hide under the "haystack" and not come out until Bubs and Z "woke her up." While she was "sleeping", I took away one of the farm animals. When she woke up, she ran back to her farm to figure out which one was missing.
Babe was very good at this, even when I took three of the six away. Bubs and Z had a blast with this, too, and even cooperatively took turns and everything! While the chosen Little Boy Blue was sleeping, the other two recited the poem once before waking him up again.
They played this for the rest of the morning, even choosing to shorten outside play time to play this a little bit longer. Amazing!
After lunch, we measured our Spring Experiment and Babe took note that none of the plants grew at all! In fact, they are actually dying. I told her we would measure one more time next week before writing our conclusions and observing the plants a bit closer.
She then added two more sentences to her story and added more dialogue. I just love her imagination. And how everything is flowing so far. I can't wait to share it.
The last thing left to do was Reading Comprehension with her new unit on animals. For some reason, the theme of animals is what Calvert is tying to Mother Goose rhymes, so for the next few days Babe will be learning about animal needs, habitats, etc.
She started by reading "Run Away!" by Gerald McDermott. It's a cute little story based on a Kootenai tale. The pages in this book had more words than normal on them, but she pulled through and comprehended it very well. She struggled very little and I was getting prouder by the minute.
Amazing.
She completed her corresponding worksheet, then got ready for dance!
And Monday was complete!
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