God's Word Helps Me Grow

So I guess it's about time I talked about some homeschooling stuff, right?

Gabriel has finished exactly half of the alphabet lessons for his kindergarten curriculum in My Father's World.  We just finished lesson 13, C-c-Cow which is part of a unit study about farm animals, and the Bible words to remember are the title of this post...God's Word helps me grow.  As in cow milk helps us grow physically and the Bible helps us grow spiritually.  I dug out a bunch of our books about farm animals and it's so funny how I can start reading a book to one or two kids and the others come out from the different rooms in our house and gather around.  I love it.

Gabriel is doing so well with reading short vowel words and his school work is taking almost no time at all.  He enjoys it so much though and even though he breezes through it, it is just the right amount of work for him.  He doesn't get bored with it, but he is also excited to do it everyday.

On his counting worksheet (bottom left), the numbers are 13 and 2.  He's been doing this for a while now, where he has to draw that amount of objects and he decides to draw the number 11 that many times.  It's not very creative or exciting, but really, our boys are drawing constantly, these elaborate pictures, of which Super Mario Brothers made up worlds are the artwork of choice right now.  So I don't worry about the math worksheet.  I'll have to take a picture and show how crazy-detailed they get with their Wii World drawings sometime. 
And on the letter worksheet (bottom right), I write the letters that you see first and then Gabe's are second, just so you know.

He loves all this cutting and pasting.  A lot.  And Leah does too, which gets messy, but with all the practice she's been getting at age two, she'll be a pro by the time she's in kindergarten.

Okay, so here are a few more activities we did...we talked about cows and what yummy food products come from them, and we also read the Story of Ferdinand and drew our little picture about it.  (I drew Ferdinand (so you know the boys don't get their artistic skill from me!), Gabe drew the tree and made the flowers.)

And that's just about what his week of school looked like.  We did a few more activities, like acting out "Hey Diddle Diddle" with some stuffed animals, talking about the different dairy products we eat, but one thing we did before with this unit study, making butter, we haven't gotten to yet (I didn't get cream from the store...whoops).  We'll get to that though since the kids like it a lot.  And I'd love to take them to a dairy farm.  We buy fresh milk from a local dairy, but it is on the other side of San Antonio and milking time is during dinner so it's not very convenient to go to, but maybe on a weekend soon we will.

More school updates to come soon!