They day started with the usual Awana review. There is only one new verse for Rabbit to memorize this week, the rest is review. But, she has two activities that she needs to do. The first is to do something kind to someone she doesn't know that well. That is difficult, because we're not sure what we can do for the neighbors we don't know. The other section she needs to wait to do until we hear back from the missionary we suport in the Netherlands.
Then we read in Window on the World about another people group in Africa. They lead a hard life. This particular group was once very nomadic, and now are basically confined to refugee camps.
In geography we read in our atlas about the people and places in Africa, and learned how to play Mancala. Rabbit really enjoyed that. For science, it was about predators and scavangers in the grasslands. The pictures are graphic, and Rabbit thought they were gross. I didn't make her write or draw anything as she was pretty emotional about them.
Then we did snack time and Spanish. The story we are learning is now completely in Spanish. It is much harder to follow. Then I gave her a 15 minute break. (She found Black Beauty at the library last week and has been reading it.)
She worked on copying the memory verse and doing math drill on the computer while I did preschool with the boys. We read their Cubbies book and worked on their verse. Then we read another book from the book basket. Next, we did calendar time. Pooh was so glad we were putting a 1 in the first Sunday on the calendar. Now, I'm starting them memorizing their address, and reviewing their phone number. Finally, we got out the number pegs and worked on those.
Rabbit and I then worked on writing eights and English. The English assignment is dictation, which she really doesn't like. I told her we would take 3 days to do it, one paragraph at a time. The point of this dictation is to practice using quotation marks. Then, we did the first lesson in our new spelling book: Sequential Spelling. It only had 4 words. It is different, based on patterns. After that she did book basket while I made lunch.
After lunch, I read the next chapter of David Livingstone. After getting the boys down, we proceded onto math. Rabbit definitely has the skip counting by fours. Remembering her math facts is another story. I made a "Multiplication Bingo" game last week - it has the answers on the card, and then I show her a flashcard and she is suppose to call out the answer and put a penny on the answer. She'll get there, it just seems slow. We did the 2nd lesson in Sequential Spelling. She did fine. It is very easy right now. We're going to aim for 2 lessons a day to see if we can finish book 1 by the end of the school year. We're suppose to do them at least 2 hours apart, so that means one in the morning and one after lunch. Finally, we finished up reading and music. We actually did the last story in our new reading book first. On Friday we browsed through the Table of Contents and Rabbit saw that "Pocohontus" was one of the stories. She really wanted to read that first. So we read about half of it on Friday and the rest today. Now, we'll go back to the beginning of the book.
It was kind of funny, because she asked if she would have to read "Pocohontus" again, and I told her she wouldn't since she read it once.
Whew. Mondays always seem like our busiest day!
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