Subject Topic/Lesson Overview

Bible: Children’s Story Bible by, Catherine Vos-We began reading the ​ ​ intro to the New Testament. On Friday we read about Zacharias in the temple and his wife Elisabeth is pregnant with John the Baptist. Suggestion: there is a Super Book episode about this that is very good. Afternoons are a good time for these things if prefered.

Memory Verse: I’ve been reading to them the entire Psalm and we worked on the first two lines this week. The first stanza is below Psalm 100 (ESV) ​ Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the lands! Serve the Lord with gladness! School Come into his presence with singing! Hymn: This is My Father’s World (I’m using Cedarmont Kids version) ​ ​

Poem: We worked on reciting the entire poem, but tried memorizing Morning the title, author and first sentence. The Swing by, Robert Louis Stevenson ​ Time/ How do you like to go up in a swing, HWT Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!

Feel free to use the above routine as your morning routine, to kick start your day. Ideas: You could all go the couch and begin, stay at the breakfast table and begin, and or make this a segway to other learning for the day. It is up to you! Handwriting: I had them write their names again on personal Home chalkboards and whiteboards. We began “Frog Jump CAPITALS” on Friday. I did F, E, D, P with them. Have them work on those in their workbooks. You may Have them copy those 4 letters in their workbook in the squares and on the lines. Optional: Do the “mystery letters”. Dictate one of those for letters to your child and have them write in the gray box from memory. Artist/Music Study: We finished the book A Band of Angels. I read a School ​ ​ section, and stopped to ask them what it was about, and what

impressed them. The book is exposing children to the hard realities of pre-civil war slavery, and its music, and how the music was kept alive Arts Home by the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University. We worked on singing “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot together”. Fisk University Jubilee Singers are still around today! You may expose your child to hear some of the chorale pieces they have on Youtube. Some other ideas is having play in the background some slave spirituals that have transitioned into becoming children’s songs, such as “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore”, others are “Swing Low, Sweet ​ ​ ​ Chariot”, and “Go Down, Moses”. There are many; these are just a ​ few. On Friday, we did a fun/creative take home art project, themed “outdoor scenes”. AAR Lessons: On Thursday we reviewed open and closed syllables by doing a craft of an open or closed door. This is stored in their portfolio at school. (They all looked that great!) On Friday we had new teaching from Lesson 2 on blends at the ​ ​ beginning of certain words and then at the end. We played a game called “change the word” where we had a word and then added a letter to the end to make a different word, than we did ones that added a letter to the beginning ex.: plan plan(t) / land ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ (b)land School

Reading Letters/Skills vowels/open and closed consonant endings, blends, sight words are ​ and you ​ Reader pages: pages 27-29 in the teachers manual have some great words, phrases and sentences to have your child read to you. Please do not choose all of these! Just choose a sampling to see where they are at. Teacher/parent read aloud is highly recommended in this curriculum, and is considered part of the course. Whatever you choose is at your discretion. The First Grade Class is hearing me read The Lion, Home ​ the Witch and the Wardrobe at the end of our day. ​

Activity pages: The activity page for this lesson is a bit involved, and not necessarily worth the while, in my opinion. If you think otherwise, certainly go for it! AAS Lesson: Discover the Phonograms: we got to practice all the vowel sounds and reviewed some phonograms. I had them copy words off Spelling School the board onto their composition books, some words from page 22 in the teacher’s manuel. We identified the sounds at the beginnings of a group of words and sounds at the end of another group of words. Continue to practice any of the 32 phonogram cards that your child is having difficulty with. There is a great APP from All About Reading that Home has all of the sounds. We used it in class. Feel free to do the activity in Step 2 on pages 23 and 24. ​ ​

Math Concept/Lesson: practicing Kuske blocks 1-10. Please refer to the School videos that are available to you on the website.

Skills/Topics: REVIEW: Kuske addition to ten and also, adding 10 to 19.

Worksheets: For this week: Chapter 2: Reminder: Under Assignments Math ​ ​ on the Parent Portal, you will find a revised version of the Math in Home Focus pages-implemented with the Kuske method! So-what would normally be pages completed in the consumable workbook, are instead, revised with using the Kuske method and can be printed off from the PHA parent portal under “Assignments”.

Books Read: Leif the Lucky-this is a storybook. Reminder: It has some ​ ​ historic qualities, and contains . I explained that this is history mixed with made up stories. (I also contrasted stories to the Bible, and the fact that that is always accurate.) I read a few sections to them. They completed a coloring page of a viking ship with School markers. They all looked fantastic and are in their portfolios. Anna also brought in a mini viking that we all passed around and enjoyed!

History Time Period: or Leif Ericson lived c.970-c.1020

Home Other suggested topics/books: Here some additional titles you could try: Leif’s Journey, Who was Leif Erikson? Leif the Unlucky, Sailing with ​ Leif Eriksson, Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky

I read both days: a poem to them titled How All Things Praise the ​ Lord. God’s workmanship was the main theme in it. On Friday, ​ Geography we acted out being some of the creatures in the poem! School As an activity, we reviewed practiced positioning. We practiced our left and right. We looked at things to our left and right, in front and behind. Then, we turned around and talked about what things had changed, and are not on our left and right and so on. We did an activity with putting a sticker on the table and then a ball and following their finger to see where it led. Could they go straight and meet back to where they started? This led to discussion of traveling around the world! We also discussed gravity, in that we don’t just fall of the earth! (We marveled at God’s creativity and wisdom in it!) Remember: The awareness of what’s around them, where they are and where other things are positioned, will ultimately get them ready to read maps and directions. They will have a Home background of simply understanding where things are, and will be able to figure out how to get around. So, spend time giving detailed instructions on where things are in the house, and outside. Enjoy! Topics Covered:Nature Study: We finished our read aloud story of Peter Rabbit and Jenny Wren. We discussed migration, and birds colors. We had a coloring page of a drawing of a house wren. They School colored it with colored pencils and it is in their portfolio. We also reviewed the photo of the house wren.

Supplemental Ideas: Same as last week: Science Have pictures of wrens for your child to look at. Discuss with them what they see. Look up the bird calls they make. Have your child try to imitate it for fun, outside, and maybe they just might get an answer Home back! Go on a birdwatch of different birds. Have the children observe and draw what they’ve seen. In a month or so, birds will begin to migrate south. Monarch butterflies have already done so. You can take notice of what is migrating when, and observe and discuss.

Vocabulary Words: For Spanish class this week, we greeted one another—hola, buenas tardes (good afternoon)—and also said how we were feeling: “Estoy…” bien, feliz, triste, cansado or cansada.

I reviewed colors and numbers to 10 as well. The songs I’ve linked to would be an easy way to reinforce these lessons for your children for the next week. Next week, School we’ll begin with the Spanish lessons from SymTalk and there will be videos on our

Spanish parent portal you can use to reinforce those lessons. Numbers: uno (1) dos (2) tres (3) cuatro (4) cinco (5) seis (6) siete (7) ocho (8) Home nueve (9) diez (10) ●

Colors: red=rojo orange=anaranjado yellow=amarillo green=verde blue=azul purple=morado brown=marron (or cafe) black=negro white=blanco gray=gris pink=rosa (or rosado)

Video Lesson to Review:

Song with Greetings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRXeDfxcjjc

Songs for Colors: ​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpLQSdu4V94

For students who know their colors easily, you could try this song that adds in other vocabulary words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsRKoZGaoEM

Songs with Numbers: ​ 1-10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ydJr1Is8xI ​ 1-20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FEyfy5N3Nc ​