We went out this morning. Helped my mom to mail some boxes of books to my brother in Australia. One thing led to another and we only came home at 1230pm.
Today we didn't read any Bible stories. Finished all the stories for the week (we had been reading 2 or more stories per day. :0), so we read William Bennett's "The Children's Book of Virtues" instead. It is a highly recommended book but I find it a bit boring. Even the beautiful pictures in it are boring. Den is Ok with it though. She doesn't love it but Ok. The only good thing about it is some of the prayers and rhymes are in the King James language. Den gets to hear words like "Thou", "dost", etc. That is part of the good thing about using Sonlight. We get to read a variety of books, including books that I won't normally buy or choose or Den to read.
After that, we read another 2 stories from the "Little Golden Books". Another book I would not have to buy it on my own. It was a bit of a struggle at first but Den and I grew to enjoy this one very much. It is a collection of stories from the 1920-40 era. We learned a lot of words that we don't usually use nowadays.
Subsequently, we did phonic. Today we learned a new sound "K".
We finished off first half of today's lesson with one of our favorites - The Berenstain Bear's Big Book of Science and Nature. It is a great book that covers all the things preschoolers (and their mommies) need to know about science -- season, weather, month, year, animal, plant, the earth itself, machines, matter, energy, etc. It was the last lesson today. We were kind of sad. I think we will read this again, maybe in the 2nd half of the year.
Anyway, in today's lesson, papa bear did a fun experiment and we did the same too. We made a paper airplane, then blowed a balloon and sticked it to the airplane (just use your hand to hold the air not tighten it). Then let go of the balloon, and the air would fly the paper plane. Our balloon was a bit too small so it did not work well but now at least I know how to make a good paper airplane!!! It can fly really well!!! :)
After that, we had lunch (store brought). This time our conversation was about which princesses is the dumbest. The conclusion: Little Mermaid is the dumbest of all princesses since she chooses to leave her family for a prince. She doesn't even know the prince (only knows he has a pretty face!!!); the second dumbest is Snow White - accepting food from a stranger; last but not least, Sleeping Beauty who disobeys her parents and touches the spinning wheel. :)
After lunch, we did phonic worksheets from Phonics First Book 2 (from popular, RM8.50 ). I think it is a good book to practice isolating the sound. It is using pictures instead of words (for example, do these two pictures -"Bat" & "Bed" begin with the same sound?) so it is good for pre-schooler who haven't mastered reading. Den is quite good in identify the beginning sound but has some problems with the ending sound. We did 3 pages today.
After that, she did 1 Chinese worksheet and 10 math questions (using a counter) while I write this. Instead of 2+2=? Today we did 2+?=4. She has no problem with that. So I think I will start teaching her subtraction next week.
She just finished her homework and it is 5pm now. She is going for her Chinese lesson -- Chinese cartoon on Goodtv!!! haha! Ok, going to cook now.
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