Kindergarten at Home - Day 14 - Proverbs

I thought this photo was kind of funny - I came down to the basement at about 9pm to find the boys engrossed in playing/learning digitally, while my daughter was teaching herself how to read.

Lesson 1 - Math - Sorting items in size order.  We made a pumpkin patch scene with a tractor to make it more fun

Lesson 2 - The Me Book - we added two more pages to the Me Book.  One page is a drawing of her family (she drew Mommy, her and her brother, then drew a long road with a building at the end, and drew Daddy in the building at work!).  The second page is her family tree.

------
...For recess today, we got to have a playdate with some of our favorite little friends at their house... then, some grocery shopping, and back home...
------

Lesson 3 - Science - My body parts.  She wanted do draw what her bones look like in her Me Book!  I drew only the basic outline of her body shape, and she actually drew all the bones in the right place all by herself (looking at a skeleton picture, not from memory).  Then, on the next page, she wants to draw her muscles.

Lesson 4 - Social Studies: Proverbs.  First, I told her what a Proverb is, then I read three proverbs aloud and had her draw a picture (or two) to help illustrate what it means...
Proverb: April showers bring May flowers.  Not all things that seem bad are all bad!  Even though it can seem gloomy in April, without it, we wouldn't have beautiful flowers in May!

Proverb: It is better to be safe, than sorry.  She drew (and then cut out) a girl who is climbing to the top of a volcano while it is erupting.  She should have stayed farther away because it is dangerous to climb an erupting volcano - she would be sorry if she got hurt!

Proverb: Do unto others as you would have done unto you. In these pictures below, the bigger girl is a bully on the playground and she is mad and yelling at the smaller girl (I like how she drew the clenched fists on the bully!).  Then, the bully realizes that that was not the way she would want to be treated, and decides to bring flowers to the little girl she was mean to.

 


Lesson 5 - Language Arts - Phonics with Rhyming.  We practiced reading more ending sounds using the Slider tool: "at" (cat, fat, mat, etc.) and "in" (pin, fin, etc.).  Rhyming words have the same ending sounds!
Then, on to Masterfully Make Many Mm's Maintaining Monotonous Movement