Dan just got home from 2 weeks away and I am so happy! My mom was here to help me for a week when he was gone (thank goodness) and now I feel refreshed and pretty motivated. While my mom was here I was able to lesson plan for our first week of school. Today we started! I couldn't decide between Five in a Row (FIAR) and Rod and Staff to use for a circ. this year...so I decided to use both! FIAR is a literature based circ. that is a lot of fun and Rod and Staff is a very typical textbook type circ. I feel this way we'll be able to be creative along with making sure we get all the necessary stuff in, too.
Our first FIAR story is Ping. The boys love this story so they were more than happy to "do school" today. We started by reading the book, then we looked through the book for differences. Meaning...how is life on a houseboat in china different than how we live today. Afterwards we went to our big world map and found China. We sang the 7 continents song and we learned that China is in Asia. Looking up the Yangtze river on the Internet was my favorite part. It is so beautiful! Those mountains around it are amazing. Even the boys were in awe. We went to the table and colored a picture of the Chinese flag. Now they know the colors of it and are able to identify it. We put those up on the wall for Daddy to see. Before our chiro. appt. we went to the library and got a few children's nonfiction books on China and a Big Bird Visits China DVD.
Here's Ashton coloring his flag.
I feel they learned a lot today! They found China on a map, learned about continents and the customs of China. And we still have 4 more days on this story.
The finished flags! Don't look at the names...can you guess who colored which?? :)
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