Category: School News

This week has been a good one, we have covered a lot of new things and had a bit of review on things we already knew.

Psalm 8 is coming along, this week we added the final 5 sentences of the poem/song. Isabel can sing it beautifully on her own but does get caught up in the middle. She has 2 weeks before needing to have the whole thing memorized.

This weeks 5 sentences…

It’s been a week since my last school posting and I’m sorry about that. I worked every day, all day last week, subbing for a fellow teacher, who was hunting with her husband. It was a great week though and I enjoyed it. I got to see a lot of my fellow three-year olds from last year! So awesome to see how they have grown in just 3 months!

Gino had been helping with school at home with Isabel last week while I was working and I really do appreciate all his help. However all that subbing and working won’t happen again. I appreciate the time I was given but I really do need to home with Isabel at school.

Today’s Bible reading for Isabel, was in Genesis 27:1-35 about the birth of Jacob and Esau. The parent reading was in Luke 7:36-50 about a Roman Commander who has great faith and Jesus raising a widow’s son from the dead.

This week we are starting 2 new books:

Learning about the Penobscot Native American Tribe in Maine.

Today’s reading was to read the introduction and chapters 1-2. After her reading, I had Isabel draw a picture of what she thought the main characters home area looked like.

She did a fantastic job!
Her depiction is from his first day alone and testing out his father’s blunderbuss gun on a squirrel.

Our other new book this week (we start it on Thursday) is:

Learning about the Incan Tribe in South America.

Psalm 8 is coming along, this week we add the final 5 sentences. Next week we bring all the verses together! Isabel sings it beautifully with the accompanying CD, however in 2 weeks she needs have the whole thing memorized.

You have put all things under his feet. All sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field. The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea. Whatever passes through the paths of the seas, O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is your name in all the earth!

Today is Tuesday and it’s piano with Ms. G. Isabel is working hard on learning new songs, half notes and dynamics of the music. Her new songs she will be learning are “Jazz Pizzazz” by N.F. and “Hamster Chase” by M.M.

This morning we worked hard on getting as much as we could get completed before piano lessons. We started with Bible with both Isabel and I reading from our passages. Isabel read in Genesis, while I continued reading in Luke. We also finished reading, “Pedro’s Journal“. Isabel was very disappointed that we have finished our first book! She won’t be disappointed for long… we start a new book tomorrow!

After getting back home from piano lessons and eating lunch, we started with our spelling test and moved onto our memorization of a Psalm 8. We did a lesson on poetry and nursery rhythms, we both loved reading the poems, some of which we hadn’t heard before. Isabel’s favorite was “Old Mother Hubbard” by S.C.M.

In Language Arts we have been working on verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs (what we went over today).

She was given this passage:

“She took a step after him, but Cook’s voice called her back. “A-man-da.” She closed the door. She walked down the long, cold hall and into the kitchen.”

She needed to find the verbs and then add some descriptive adverbs to make it more interesting.

This is what she wrote (with a few adjectives as well):

“She took a small step after him, but Cook’s loud voice called her back. “A-man-da.” She silently closed the heavy door. She slowly walked down the long, cold hall and into the barren kitchen.”

I love her sentences! We went over this lesson until I felt she was getting adverbs and what they can do to a sentence.

Later in the afternoon we read “Walk the Worlds Rim” and “A Lion to Guard Us“. We were also able to chart both books courses on our map. Isabel loves charting on the map and I really like that she is learning about the world.

On the sofa reading aloud.

She also spent about an hour on the computer doing math and Language Arts.

It was a good day, look forward to tomorrow and what it brings.

It’s a new week of school-at-home and we are enjoying it!

In Bible we are covering Genesis 8, 9, 11, 12 and 18. This morning Isabel read Genesis 8 and the story of Noah and his family entering and leaving the ark.

“It doesn’t matter if you are young or old; God wants you to be part of what He is doing in the world. This week you will meet several people who waited for a long, long time to see God do what He would do. May we be willing to follow when God calls us, and remember to keep our eyes on Him and not try to “make a name for ourselves.” – Luke Holzmann

Also this week in Bible, we are continuing in the book of Luke 2:21-4:44. This morning we read about baby Jesus being presented in the Temple and meeting Simeon and Anna.

In our memorization of a Psalm 8 poem/song, which ties in the the story of creation in Genesis from last week, I added 5 more lines from the poem/verse. Isabel is doing an amazing job learning it. She might even have the whole thing memorized before the 6th week!

“O Lord, our Lord how majestic is Your name in all the earth. Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens! From the mouth of infants and nursing babes.
You have established strength.
(last weeks memorization)
Because of Your adversaries, to make the enemy and the revengeful cease. When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained.
(this week’s memorization)

This week we continue our 3 books that we began last week: “Walk the Worlds Rim”, “Pedro’s Journal“ and “A Lion to Guard Us“. This week we will finish 2 of them.

This week, we have started cursive writing. It’s more of a review, since Isabel learned cursive writing in the latter part of 2nd grade. Anything to get the pencil in her hand, since she dislikes writing so very much!

This week’s American Indian prayer focus is on the Taino and Arawak tribes. The Taino were a part of the Arawak tribe and both tribes are from the Caribbean. We look forward to learning more about these trips this week as we pray together for them.

Today was the first day back to work for me. I am working in the a.m. only again this year and I think am really going to enjoy that with homeschooling. This week I am helping our new Preschool 3’s Teacher Mrs. V and working in the a.m. and p.m. classes. Our a.m. class has 15 students and our p.m. class has 8 students.

“All Creation Sings God’s Glory“… tomorrow is our last day! What will she add next?!

Today Isabel “Sings God’s Glory” about her house and clothes.
I added my hands yesterday.

While I was at work Daddy and Isabel got a good portion of her work completed before I got home! After I got home we did Bible reading (about Noah from Genesis 6:5-22 and Luke 1:57-80 the birth of John the Baptist), our memorization of a Psalm 8 poem/song, science, Language Arts and spelling. It worked out very well and we were finished with her work just after dinner!

It’s Fair Day but in order for us to go, we need to do some school work before heading out later this morning.

We did our Bible lesson about Cain and Abel from Genesis 4:1-16. Our Bible story in Luke (Luke 1:39-56) was about Mary (the mother of Jesus) visiting Elizabeth.

“All Creation Sings God’s Glory“ window art is being added to! Isabel is really enjoying doing this art project.

Today Isabel “Sings God’s Glory” about trees and fruit.
She also added a third one today as well, her hand.

After our short morning of classwork and Daddy’s phone-calls, we headed to the Fair!