Week 1: Monday

I should've posted this yesterday, but our house is busy with potty-training.

Anyway, Monday we started Week 1 of the Preparatory Curriculum. Our first weekly theme is COWS! So, we started our school work by coloring a picture of some cows. Then, we went over many words with the -OW sound like wow, chow, bow, etc. We went over our vocabulary word for the week, which is calf. "A calf is a baby cow," Elsie says to anyone who will listen. Then, we sang "Old McDonald Had a Farm" and read some poems listed on the BBR site. We read a book about a cow from our own personal collection, and we ended our cow portion of the day by getting down on all fours and letting out loud "MOOOOOS." Even Claira joined in on our fun, though her "moo" was in baby talk.

We had gotten a later start than I had planned on, so we took a break for lunch and did a few more things afterwards. We did a couple of pages in Elsie's workbook. We're working on a book that's all about colors. I'm really focusing on the following directions part of the experience so I chose to start with something she already knew. She's great at circling objects and coloring of course, but we're still working on drawing X's over objects or drawing a line from one object to another to match them up. To finish, we read Elsie's Day by Day Bible that my friend A.J. recommended. Then, we went over our scripture for the week, which is Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth."

When I've written it all down, it makes it seem like such a time consuming thing, but it doesn't take much time at all.