Daniel has read through Matthew 13 in Bible. This week he learned the last two verses of the passage in Matthew 6:19-21 about storing up for ourselves treasure in heaven. It was an easier passage to learn as it had many repeating words. We read about Mary Slessor, a missionary to Africa, in Hero Tales. And we read about and prayed for the Riffi Berbers of the Rif Mountain Range in Morocco. Did you know that "there were many Berber Christians during the first centuries after Jesus died? Some were even martyred for their faith. Sadly, the church grew smaller, and by AD 1100 there were no Berber Christians. But Berbers are coming to know Jesus again!"
In All About Spelling Daniel has been learning to add suffixes to base words. He has learned the rules for doubling the consonant before adding a vowel suffix. There are so many rules to remember that we go over them every couple days. He is doing much better in his spelling and his reading and I have to give some of the credit to this spelling program.
In math Daniel has been working with measuring in centimeters and meters. He likes doing that. Then he worked with adding and subtracting problems with meters and centimeters. I have to admit is much easier to do conversions in the metric system than in inches and feet. We will start doing that in a couple weeks.
I had a hard time playing the geography game for Africa. I only know a few countries and there are so many to learn. But I know from experience that we will learn them if we just keep at it. Daniel did a few worksheets on Africa. He learned a bit about the country of Kenya.
We have been reading about grasslands in science. We learned that grasslands have different names in different continents.
North America-prairie
South America-pampas
Europe-steppe
Africa-savannah
Maybe I knew that but had forgotten it. It is amazing how much I learn as I teach the children. I love it!
We sang some African songs from Wee Sing and have been listening to a CD I found at the library.
Daniel has been reading about African animals in his reading book, "The Complete Book of Animals." And I have been reading aloud from "David Livingstone", another missionary to Africa.
While Daniel is busy working on his math drill I help Leah do some school work. She has been wanting to read. Since she knows the sounds of the letters, I knew it should be an easy thing for her to read. When we went to the library I tried to get some Bob Books. The first level was checked out. I remembered I had some easy little readers with cvc words here at home. It was so fun to sit and have her read to me. Imagine the excitement for her as she sounded out words and read for the first time! She read a whole story from the book and was very excited to be able to read to her papa when he got up! After she read she wanted to spell on the spelling board with the letter tiles. I gave her words from her reader and she easily spelled them. I think kindergarten will be lots of fun for her next fall.
We are a week behind in art. I didn't get the flowers in time to do the flower pressing assignment for Germany last week. So we did it this week. First we had to press the flowers for a few days. Then we made a picture out of the flowers. This is an art form in Germany.
I bought some inexpensive frames at Walmart so the children will be able to save and hang their pictures in their rooms.
I hope to get to our African art project today.
