Sonlight Week 3

Week 3 of Sonlight and we are still moving. We finished The Boxcar Children last week and moved to My Father's Dragon for our read-aloud. We totally finished that in a heartbeat. J loved the story and I am in the process of trying to get the next two books in the series so we can see what happens. Here is what we did this week...

In Bible, we learned about the importance of obeying God. We read about Adam and Eve and discussed ways we obey God.

Our letter of the week, which we call the mystery letter, was M. J practiced writing her M's and she created an letter page.

J is working her Wordly Wise book 1. We do about 2 pages a day.

In Reading, we practiced our word families. She would flip the cards over and read the words on them.

For My Father's Dragon, she created a backpack with pictures of all of the items Elmer took with him on the adventure. She was so enamored by this story, she found items around the house and packed her backpack as well.

We worked in some math for our read-aloud. In the book, Elmer ran into 7 tigers in the woods. We found 7 wild animals (not all tigers because we didn't have 7) and we figured out how many eyes they had, how many feet, etc... Homeschool Share has a free lapbook for My Father's Dragon. It has some awesome printables.

In Social Studies, we finished reading about the Egyptians and made Egyptian bread.

It was actually pretty good. We ate it with butter and honey for dinner.

In Science, we read about different types of destructive weather and we made a tornado in a bottle. Luckily for me, I had a tornado tube that I brought from America when I taught in the classroom so we didn't have to use duct tape. J added some red food coloring and purple glitter. When we read The Wizard of Oz, maybe we will add a little house and a cow!

As a final project for Science, we made a weather vane. Here, J and Kaleb are testing it to see if it works. We will put this outside on the balcony and check the air currents. (at least I know that Kaleb is ready for blowing out his birthday candles!)

Another busy week for our learning. I am glad it is going well. J has loved all of the books we read and she keeps begging for more. Hope you had a great week as well. Next week, we have a new book - Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and we will be working with the sight words up and a.