Weekly Round up Sept. 24-28

Well, only my 5th week of homeschooling and it was a very difficult one for me.  I went head to head with a host of doubts and a dark cloud over my mind and spirit.  Schooling was at a minimum, but we did manage to muddle through and get some stuff done.  A bright spot was that we received our Cathechism book that I had to order twice as the first one was lost in the mail, Chat's with God's Little Ones.  It's a lovely book and very handy guide to teaching the Faith to the kids, broken down in daily "chats" of about 5 -10 minutes each.  Again, a big thanks to my mentor-friend for bringing this book to my attention.  After a dreary Monday, I decided to completely do something different on Tuesday, so I went to the fountain of information and goodness that is Pinterest, and found a great and free farm unit preschool printable pack from 1plus1plus1equals1.  Wow, that is a great site, you should check it out, tons of great printables and information.  I printed out a lapbook and the girls and I spent the morning putting it together.  It was a wonderful change of pace for all of us, Gabriela loves crafting and they both got a lot of cutting, coloring, and glueing practice as well as some phonics, matching, sorting, and game playing.  Annalise and Gabriela truly enjoyed it and I will definitely be doing some more lapbooking as it really combines the girls love of crafts with learning.  We reviewed the phonic sounds of the letters Qu, R, and S this week and read once from our seashore book.  We learned about the birth of Moses in our Bible studies.  Gabriela did one quick sandpaper grading activity.  Overall it was a super light week, we only schooled 3 days.

 

Golden beads: learning how denominations or made up of groups of 10

 

 

Grading sandpaper

 

 

Beginning sounds clipping

 

 

 

Coloring

 

 

 

 

 

 

Animal nomenclature cards

 

 

 

 

We finished the week by going to St. Ann's art class and learned about angels and St. Michael the Archangel, just in time for his feast day.  The girls made a crafty angel.