First Day Part 2

After lunch Taitum came and once all babies were calm and playing, we jumped into math. I really like the Singapore Math books from my first impression. The books are nice and colorful and pretty good at working through the trivium in terms of teaching new concepts. 

And the activities are fun and it breaks down how to properly interpret word problems - which most kids tend to freak out about. It's nice that she'll have a positive look on word problems from the beginning. 

 

I teach the text to everyone just like I would if I were reading a book allowing the opportunity to point and answer questions. Then Auds does the workbook. 

T really enjoyed getting to look at the book by himself. 

Right now it's pretty much review, but it looks like she'll easily transition to different concepts as they're introduced throughout the year. 

I love our art! It has a famous painting, the name, date, country, artist, and a fact. Today we did the Mona Lisa and T loves the fact that in 1911 someone stole it but that it was recovered. Each week we'll do a new artist. The first day it's introduced we'll talk about it and they'll do a color sheet. The next day they'll paint their own interpretation of the work. The last day (we'll do a mwf) they'll do whatever they want to inspired by that work. 

Here's what I'm thinking for our schedule: 

After art we did a bit of our Asia work. I showed them where Asia was on the map and what countries were within its borders. We started with my telling them how in Asia it's more difficult to be a Christian and I read an "inspired by" story of a persecuted village when a missionary came to bring Bibles to the whole community. We then discussed what we would do if we had the same hardships regarding our faith. 

Auds said she'd make a huge mess in her room and hide her Bible in her stuffed animals and baby dolls and whisper her prayers very softly so she wouldn't get caught. Tony said he'd do the same. 

So now I guess they feel the freedom to mess their rooms up for the sake of persecuted Christians. Lol 

Next time we'll look more into the geography and history of Laos (where our story was) and draw the country's flag. 

We wrapped up with fruit salad for snack and are just hanging out playing for the rest of the day. 

Not too shabby of a first day! Excited to see how the rest goes!