Week 12, Day 4 in ECC

Today's Bible passage was the one where Jesus tells the guy, "Foxes have holes, birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." So, we talked about the cost of following Jesus, and if we would be willing to sleep on the ground for Him. Hmmm. Lots of food for thought there.

Then we did Geography. We had a metric conversion activity, but it was too cold to go measure the yard, so we measured our sunken living room (it was over 4 yards). Then it was funny, I didn't really know how cold it was, so I said, "Well, let's just say it is 40 degrees." Then we followed the steps in the book: subtract 32 - that gave us 8, then multiply by 5 - well then we're back to 40, and then do the last step, which brought us to 4 degrees celcius - that eve sounds cold! I ust thought it was funny that we didn't really have to do the first two steps if you start at 40 degrees. Then we played the Geography Game. I told Rabbit if she wasn't sure about where a country was, she could look at the atlas. I didn't want her to remember the *wrong* place.

After that we did Spanish. I think we're not so keen on Tell Me More any more. Rabbit has a real hard time pronouncing the words in the sentences all together. So, what I did was have her do each word individually, and then I did the sentences. You have to pronounce the sentences correctly 3 times before you can go onto the next one. That got to be no fun real fast.

After snack, Rabbit worked on her Awana verse while I did preschool with the boys. We read Welcome Back Sun. It definitely had a different tone than The Day Hans Got His Way. It was a much more serious story. Then we worked on their verse. Tigger wanted a workbook page to do, so I found one on the letter "b" and they enjoyed that, and actually did quite well for a couple of 4 year olds.

Then Rabbit and I did writing eights. For writing time, I found a picture in a National Geographic magazine and had her write a sentence about it. She did good, except she forgot to capitalize her first letter. Also, while doing our writing eights, we listened to some Edvard Grieg. It was beautiful - it sounded like spring. We think some of the music is in Fantasia.

For book basket, Rabbit read a book of Disney Princess Stories. I told her that wasn't really book basket, but at least she was reading something, I suppose. After lunch we continued on with math, spelling, reading and poetry. For some reason, math took her a while today. Seemed like she got in a brain slump this afternoon.

Overall not bad. Sometime this weekend we are going to go ahead and do the Bible time and vocabulary pages that are scheduled for Day 5, so when we start up again after Thanksgiving, we start up on Week 13, Day 1.