Our Week-Memory Game-Math is FUN:)

Cat working on her Bible Bowl

What a wonderful week we have had so far. Here is a quick update:

Bible:
We are continuing to read of Moses and the Israelites in Numbers. Today we read of how the Israelites were to blow the trumpet etc. Also how when God moved around in the cloud so did the Israelites. Today was wonderful because each of the children had a Bible of their own in the same NIV translation that I am reading from. We were blessed to find two NIV Bibles this past weekend for a great deal. Joseph is using the NIV Study Bible and Nathan is using a NIV Large Print Bible. (I have become a HUGE fan of large print anything! and I was thinking today that a Large print Bibles might be good for all of us to use:) Anyway.. today we each took turns reading each verse for a while and then I finished up our reading as the kids followed along. After our readings we sang some songs and Joseph led us in prayer. He specifically thanked God for PawPaw Jo getting better and to "please be with Joel and Jessica as they go to China"..
He did a great job! It is my hope that having the boys pray after our Bible lessons that they will be comfortable praying in front of others and will not be weary of leading a prayer in Bible class or elsewhere.

Math:
Joseph started his next book this week and is enjoying it. It is multiplication and the first part of the book is a bit easy for him but good practice. Nathan learned today how to round to the nearest 10 and I also showed him how to round to the nearest 5. He seemed to LOVE it. Cat is enjoying division and learned today to find the area of a triangle. 1\2bh .. I quized her on how to find the area of a rectangle and parallelograms and then gave her extra work that I drew out on a paper for her to measure and figure the areas of each shape. When she was finished she said "THAT WAS FUN!" (thats always great to hear.. esp in math! :)

Reading
Joseph is almost finished with his first chapter book. I will post a picture of him with his book when he finishes. Nathan started reading another Magic Treehouse to me yesterday . He read a chapter to me and then 5 silently to himself. Catherine finished another Encyclopedia Browns and started Pride and Prejudice. I told her when she finishes it we will watch the A&E miniseries together.. (I have it on hold at the Library :)
Today I will continue reading "Door in the Wall" and start "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" for reading fun :)


Science- the kids started coloring the next section on their body book. (pictures later)

History:
The kids listened to the History CD and did a worksheet which had them write out the five pillars of Islam. We are going to move on today and find out what happens next !

Catherine has been working on a Jepardy game that she dreamed up to have as a review of all our subjects. She has designed the game and written all the questions and answers .. we will play that today :) She is pretty excited about it.

I had to work on a project up at our church on Monday and I had the kids listen to books on tape. Two Magic Tree houses and continued Kind Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The LOVED both.

I also had the kids do a kind of memory game that I saw on TV. I set up the chess board (see picture below) and gave the kids a few minutes to memorize where they peices were. I then dumped the pieces off and had each take turns to see if they could get them correctly back in their places. They did well.. but the most they got were 5 pieces correct. I will continue to do this every few days as a memory game for them.



(I set up the board and then too a picture with my digital camera so we would have an image of how the board was set)