The Pine Tree Parable~

Today we read The Pine Tree Parable for our storytime~

 Our Art project was our very own beautiful pine trees.

I showed them an example, drew a swirl tree in pencil, and they traced with paint.

I gave them lots of items to use for decorating:

foam shapes, glitter paint, puff paint, sequins, glitter glue.

They loved the finished product.

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.

  

Poem Work~

My s-i-l gave me such a great suggestion for EK from her teaching experience as a 3rd grade teacher.

I found a poem online, printed it, and we worked on reading at first.

Echo reading is one of our favorites and she had it down quickly.

I cut and taped it to her journal, made a couple of categories, and she began color coding nouns/verbs then recording them.

   Thank you Amy for the awesome idea!!!

Language and Spelling~

Our language curriculum has been a very good choice for us this year. We are about 3/4s through First Language Lessons. Both girls have a firm foundation so we continue along. Each day the lesson gives you a written activity and I have EK complete in her journal.

Today we reviewed all we have learned about nouns and our new info about verbs. We put them on the wall and EK used a pointer to read. Both girls wrote the definition of a verb in their journals then decided on a verb to illustrate/write about.

  

Later in the morning I was working with EK using our new Spelling curriculum and had her code some of the words to connect back to our language lesson: Box the proper nouns, circle the common nouns, and squiggly line under the verbs. She did really well with spelling and grammar coding!!!

SJ just enjoyed drawing on her board... awesome!