Rainy Day

So everyone slept in because of the rain this morning. It was ten 'til nine when Brisa knocked on our door- nearly two full hours later than the kids normally get up. It was a little weird, but believe me, I was not complaining! Our late start made our school day start around 11 am- which is still better than yesterday's 1 pm!

Here's what we did today:

Reading Selections:

Genesis 25:19-34

"Diamond's Song" by George MacDonald

"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" by Eugene Field

"The Donkey, the Fox, and the Lion" an Aesop Fable

"How the Camel Got His Hump" from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

"Damon and Pythias" from Fifty Famous Stories Retold

The Story about Ping by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese

Phonics and Copywork:

Brisa and Kahmylia both read Alpha Phonics- Lesson 23

Brisa completed two pages out of her Phonics Workbook on long sound -a. She learned long -a sound words with -a and silent -e and words with -ai.

Kahmylia did a fill-in-the-blank worksheet in which she had to choose the correct short vowel sound word to complete the sentence.

Brisa completed her copywork page from her McGuffey Reader. She is simply not ready for this book yet. Her handwriting is really atrocious. I am going to go back to letter formation with her.

Kahmylia worked on writing lowercase b and d and words beginning with these letters. She is still having some difficulty distinguishing these two letters. After I did some dictation with her using words that start with b and d, I realized that she knows these letters, but she simply doesn't take the time to distinguish them when she sees them in context.

Reading Practice:

Brisa finished her story, "The Boy and the Goat" from Harriette Taylor Treadwell's Primer a day ahead of schedule. She is really sailing through these stories. She also read the abridged version of Hop on Pop, by Dr. Seuss.

Kahmylia finished the rest of the Mother Goose stories from Harriette Taylor Treadwell's First Reader. Because she did not do any reading practice yesterday, I also had her start her next story, "Wee Robin's Christmas Song." She read the first page.

Narration:

I realized today, that we didn't do any narration yesterday. Oops!

Today Kahmylia narrated "The Donkey, the Fox, and the Lion." She did quite well!

Brisa requested to narrate our Bible selection, Genesis 25:19-34, about the birth of Jacob and Esau and how Esau sells his birthright. This was a little too much for her because it is really two stories. But she got most of the overview and a few of the details. I was impressed with her comprehension.

Spanish:

Today we continued to work on the alphabet using flash cards. We also recited numbers 1-10. Brisa is still forgetting siete, but we are working on it! I am going to look for a printable Spanish alphabet flash cards set because the Spanish word for the pictures of the English set we are using don't always correspond with the Spanish letter. We will see what I can find.

Math:

Today Brisa did three pages in her workbook on identifying 2 and 3 dimensional shapes.

Kahmylia and I reviewed telling time on the half-hour. I think she is finally grasping the concept. She also did a few pages in her workbook.