Unit 7- Us

I actually downloaded all 1800 photos off my phone, so I'm blogging from my desktop today.

Weekly, I've been aiming to have a faith based, a fictional preschool and non fiction science book to learn more about each units letter, object and bible words. I had several books already about how God created each of us differently and uniquely special. I have 5 of these already and bought the other five since this idea is such a basic fundamental idea of our sense of self, how we carry ourselves and treat other people .

Letter U books:

Human Body

Us went in to more specifics of the 5 senses. This is the weekly letter card:

We watched several videos on the senses and read this book:

 

Munchkin has enjoyed discovering writing and drawing so much this year. He has surpassed my expectations and goals that I wrote out at the beginning of the year in this area.

Doodlebug matches up the letters very well with no help from me:

Highway letters:

Verse visuals I made using a family picture that a friend from church  did for us.

Munchkin wowed me with making up his own words to go with the vowel ladder.

Week 26 ABCJLM

 

Feeding of the 5,000

Week 28 of 36

We did get learning done these last two weeks. We've had so much going on that getting the learning done was all I could manage, blogging just had to wait. Mommy broke her foot, Munchkin has been sick and Doodlebug has been teething in a bad way not sleeping through the night. We had a mini vacation during Spring Break as well while we were having work done on our kitchen. All that aside... we had fun :-)

This week is definitely a reflection of our priorities when every thing else in life is wacky. What's the most important focus on our learning and that's our relationship with Christ and growing in Him. As 1 Corinthians says all other knowledge will pass, but love.  Week 29 is a review week, so we had plenty of time to cover more of the number, letter, motor skills, math and name practice.

It's not that it doesn't bother me to not have everything complete, but there is grace in every day living. We are efforting to be faithful while trusting in God. Perfection is not on our radar. No educational approach is flawless and God equips for every good work according to His purpose. I feel like I'm defending myself, so I'll stop and just share our learning.

Learning Poster

Books of the Week

Reminder White Board

Letter Tracing and Memory Verse

We read the "U" portion of each book

Character Trait
 We can all benefit from giving more of this to strangers, leaders, company, etc.

Bible Story

What's in the Bible Volume 10 includes this weeks story

Felt board and Bible

Munchkin playing out the story.

Listening to the Bible story via Biblegateway

 We also have a Jesus action figure that tells the story as well.

Easter videos we've been watching

Week 30: Letter U & Color Purple

Tough last week with Doodlebug getting over an ear infection and daddy doing some late shifts. The routine of doing 'fun' keeps from boredom, mischief and tantrums from flaring. So, we actually got quite a bit done.

 

 

U if for Umbrella fun!

Minnesota Cute and the Search for Noah's Umbrella

More letter U fun

Munchkin has gotten in to the soy-doh ( our gf substitute for play-doh) We made lots of U's

Chicka Chicka bye yoU!