Our day started out with working in the gardens, planning out our course for the day and then having breakfast. Reading the paper was cause for good discussion over why people do bad things (the boston marathon bombing). The lad finds (as do I) such badness disturbing and it's good to talk about why people do bad things (they want their own thing more than they want God).
Language Arts
Today we started a new review for Joyce Herzog, called the Scaredy Cat reading system. I have to admit, I find this system a bit ' intimidating". The lessons are long, it has a different approach than what I am used to, but I think we'll make it work. I firmly suspect each lesson will take us a good week to go through. When the lad saw me leafing through lesson one he got scared that I was going to make him do it all in one shot so I needed to reassure him.
In the above picture he's working on alphabetizing some words and then I had him read them out loud. He was a bit confounded that not every letter in the alphabet was to be found, so needed to be reminded to just skip those letters. He LOVED playing the word game though. This surprised as I was positive in my head (I wasn't foolish enough to show that hesitation) that he'd not be at all interested in doing them. But his competitive nature kicked in and he loved it. Loved trying to figure out how to say a word. We each played an angry bird as our character and had the angry birds learn how to say the words presented. :) Just fun that.
In the above picture he's working on alphabetizing some words and then I had him read them out loud. He was a bit confounded that not every letter in the alphabet was to be found, so needed to be reminded to just skip those letters. He LOVED playing the word game though. This surprised as I was positive in my head (I wasn't foolish enough to show that hesitation) that he'd not be at all interested in doing them. But his competitive nature kicked in and he loved it. Loved trying to figure out how to say a word. We each played an angry bird as our character and had the angry birds learn how to say the words presented. :) Just fun that.
History
We did some more work on Home School in the Woods. We spray painted our coins today. The lad would like to make more coins so I'll see if I can squeeze that into our day tomorrow. :)
one of the lad's coins
one of my coins.
Math
We did a math lesson through tutorsoft. Still working on multiplication, we are mostly just doing ground work and not doing actual multiplication at this point. He continues to memorize his basic addition facts yet. The lad still quirks his eyes and scrunches his face up as he listens so I just need to give him more time to absorb the facts a bit yet. Soon we'll start memorizing the multiplication tables as well.
Nature Study
The lad has continued his learning into the ways and patterns of toads. This little fellow was rediscovered today and much to-do made over him. A house was built.
A prison area was developed that the lad was certain that toad couldn't get out of, but toad proved to be a very good climber. :)
We decided based on patterning on toad that he is probably a bigger version of the toads we found at the Pinery last year and released into our backyard. He would have course grown larger but we know he isn't one-eye or "big toad" that kept the lad well amused last summer.
Fishing was the name of the game in the afternoon. We met an older fellow who let the lad take a good look at the black crappie that he caught, and told us stories about snapping turtles and how they took his catch off the holding line. Told the lad to leave snapping turtles well enough alone (the lad was well enough impressed) and if he really wanted to catch a fish, to come back the last week of April and catch a trout or two. That way he wouldn't need to pay to be part of the derby on the weekend. :)
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