Summer Break: Vacation Time

Summer vacation in Las Vegas? That's crazy! We left hot to go to hotter who does that, but people that live in California close enough to drive to Las Vegas. 

Caleb and I had a great time swimming in the lazy river and splashing in the pool. Larry enjoyed the picture taking and time with his good friend Wade.

We went to way too many buffets. The abundance of food choices was overwhelming.

Unit 5: Nest

Unit 5 is all about the letter Nn and nest. Words to remember are God takes good care of me. We learned that God wants to be like a parent to us, keeping us safe and helping us to grow. He knows how to take good care of us. We read the story of Elijah being sent to the bad King Ahab with admonishment, but King Ahab would not listen. He instead listened to Queen Jezebel. She continually made trouble for the King. God cared for Elijah sending Ravens to feed him and he will do the same for us if we obey his commands.

We were supposed to do some projects, but too many complaints from the little guy so I am going with bare minimum for a while. Here is his handwriting page and matching letters to pictures. His fives look really good I think I helped him with these.

 Math was fun he had to draw the right number of eggs in each basket. He also had to trace a penny and write the number of cents it equaled. The penny kept moving when he was tracing. Sigh!

  Caleb drawing pictures that start with the letter N. From left to right he drew a net, needle, nest, and nectarine. Can you see it?

We read two books. Elijah took a couple of weeks in between reading Alice in Bibleland books. I like the Young Readers Christian Library books because even though they have a lot of words there is a picture for Caleb to look at on every other page. Pictures are very important to little people.

Another reading activity with no words was to put this in sequence. After a couple of tries he finally got it right.

Unit 4: Apple

Unit 4 is all about the letter Aa and apple. We learned that fruits grow on trees, bushes, and vines. God says that if we live and stay in Jesus, we will grow a lot of fruit. Have you ever seen fruit growing on people? What kind of fruit? Well, the Bible tells us exactly what kind.

So we created this cute little apple tree called  "Fruit of the Spirit" and taped it to the fire place mantel. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Galatians 5:22-23a NIV. I love having this out were we both can see and be reminded when we are not acting accordingly. What a great opportunity to build character directly from the bible.

For math we put an apple graph together. Caleb learned first, second, and third and reviewed sizes smallest to largest. He also cut an apple in half and we talked about 1/2 and 1/4 then we enjoyed eating fresh apples for the rest of the week.

 Handwriting page and another little more complicated graph for math.

 Sound discrimination page were Caleb must put an X through each picture that does not start with the letter A or have the /a/ sound. The second page is recognizing which letters go with the pictures. 

 Still trying to encourage Caleb to draw his own pictures. There is an alligator, apple, ant, and an ax. Just use your imagination.

Nice book. The little girl wants to make an apple pie, but when she goes to market there is a sign on the door "Gone Fishing". So she travels all over the world finding wheat to grind into flour, a chicken to lay an egg, a cow for fresh milk, salty sea water for salt, and fresh picked apples. She bakes an apple pie, invites some friends over to share and she goes to market for ice cream only to find the there is a sign "Still Fishing".