Wednesday November 19th, 2008

Today was a good day again! Wow - two in a row! Niyi went with Kunle to the gym again so we were able to get lots done when he was out. The 3r's stuff was finished by 10:00am pretty much!

Lola: Did all her independent work (math, devotional, handwriting, started reading Robin Hood, French and Math drill) pretty uneventfully. After that we did her spelling - a few new word patterns were introduced today so this was a bit challenging, I had to speak to her a bit about not getting so upset when she makes mistakes - she really s to get things wrong! We read another Chapter of Hole in the Wall, learning lots of new vocabulary words as we went (lots of thee, thou, art etc!) and will start the plague lapbook next week. She drew a lion with instruction from me and was very pleased with the result and wants it posted to her Artsonia art gallery so I will do that! In the afternoon she wrote a short story to continue our Unit study book Little Oh, but she didn't really enjoy having to do that - not sure why, but I think she may have had enough writing!

Tayo: Her math lesson went well today - she is getting the hang of +9's now and the blocks are really helping her 'see' it (guess that's why it is called Math U see!) Is working on lowercase letters in HWOT and after she did that see initiate another drawing lesson, this time a lion! We copied this from her book and she did pretty good. She did her word of the day box with Lola this afternoon and some starfall. She is beginning to notice words when I am reading to her and she is very happy when she reads them!

Niyi: Continuing with the potty training saga....sigh!

Unit Study: Continuing with Little Oh. This time when we read the story I made two cards one with 'like' on it and one with 'as'. We reviewed what a simile is (we learnt about those last week) and when we heard one in the story they had to hold up their cards. Lola was good at this and found them all! That is a good way of reviewing this subject and the kids thought it was fun! We were able to watch a show on the Food Network this morning that happened to be about food in Japan so that was good timing! At lunch the s thought their tortilla roll ups looked like sushi! We read a book about how paper is made and its many uses and listed all the things we could that are made of paper.