Israel, Easter, and Jesus

We have family visiting, so we took it easy in school this week to make gifts for them. Here is a picture of our world map with pictures of animals that we have added as we learned about each place. From left to right, it's a camel, tiger, panda, duck, and an funny looking snow monkey.



Geography/Literature: We read more Bible stories and Israel stories this week, focusing on Jesus rising again. We listened to a few Christian songs about it, one favorite is 'Might To Save', which sings about Jesus conquering the grave. The grand finale was celebrating Easter with family.

Language Arts: We did lessons 5-8. We reread The Green Fig and answered questions about it and got all of the spelling words right on the test. We played the game that goes with The Green Fig, and it was a big hit because it's about a pig, and a wild pig has been visiting us lately and the kids love to watch him eat our compost. Then we read Jed and Bess, a cute story about a hen who rescues someone, then answered questions about the story and did the sentence hunt, to fill in the blank for sentences in the reader. These readers are always so action packed, funny, and entertaining. We love them!

Math: We started CLE Math 1, lessons 1-5. We really like it so far, and my concern about too many pages per lesson was no problem at all since they are spaced out, fun and entertaining, and they keep changing to keep attention. We started flashcards to drill the new facts learned everyday, this week it was 1+1=2, 1+2=3, 2+1=3, and 1+3=4, and he quickly memorized them after seeing it with legos. We learned about adding one more is the next number, ordinal numbers, and practiced drawing circles. We like this new math program and I think it is going to be a great fit for this year.