The Espinoza Family Blog

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.