Sky and Clouds

We jumped back into our overarching Creation Theme, and moved on to Day 2 of creation - God created Sky and Clouds.  This might be on my Top 10 favorite weeks of Parker Prep ever... check it out!

Day 1

We started with the usual counting and verse review.  We are focusing on identifying numbers 11 and 12, and we learned the first part of Psalm 23,

"The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want."

We will continue adding to it each week.

Then, we sang the Day 2 Of Creation Song, and read

 This book has a LOT of information, but you can kind of pick and choose how much you want to read depending on your objectives.  After reading through it, we sang the weather song.

(To London Bridges)

"What's the weather like today, like today, like today,

"What's the weather like today, like today, like today,

Please tell us, Parker"

We looked at the weather graph and talked about the different types of weather.  He ran outside to report it was a sunny, and put up the first magnet.

We read

and did Lesson 11 in our reading book.

Day 2

After singing the weather song and adding to our graph, we read

We went to the table to make the different kinds of clouds we learned about in the book.  The first is Cirrus.  He remembered they are wispy like a horse's tail.  He ripped the cotton balls apart and tried gluing them down, but they kept sticking to his fingers =)

He remembered that the stratus clouds are like a blanket, so he pulled the cotton balls apart and glued them down a little thicker.

Adley really enjoyed making clouds, too!

Finally, I helped Parker glue the puffy cumulous clouds on, and we ended up with this.

Next, I sprayed some clouds on the table for him (shaving cream). He spread them around, and then he worked with the stroke cards for the first time.  This is our first step in learning to write. I propped the cards up with playdoh and he copied them in the clouds.  It was so fun to watch!  I could tell it was something he had to think about, but he enjoyed it and I thought he did a great job!  

  

We had a great time learning and playing together =)

Parker finished all of the stroke cards and played in the clouds for several more minutes.  

We moved over to the couch for our reading lesson.  First, he read me these words from the "at" family.  He moved the yellow piece up and down to read the different words.  Is there any greater sound than hearing your child read?  It is music to my ears =)

Each day we do a reading lesson, he puts another number in the 100's chart.

Day 3

We usually do school on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  This week, those three days were sunny, and Tuesday and Thursday were rainy and cloudy!  So, according to our graph, we've had some nice weather ;)

Parker put the correct number of clouds in the sky.

Then we made a cloud in a jar.

We read from the Exodus 13 about how God provided a pillar of cloud to lead the Israelites in the desert.  Then we finished with Lesson #13 in our reading book.

Later that night, we read

Thorughout the week, Parker was much more observant of the clouds outside.
Mission accomplished!