18 May 2009

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Den slept 12 hours again! :) Woke up at 11am. We hug hug for one hour then breakfast. Only started school at 1pm!

We have a new verse today. We reviewed last week's verse and Den can say the whole verse without prompting.

This week's new verse is very easy to remember but hard to do:

Honor your father and mother. Ephesians 6:2

I explained "Honor" as making your parents proud. Not sure if there is any better explanation?

Then we read 3 Bible stories. Den was so happy! All 3 were about Elisha -

• helping widow (2King 4);


• healed Naaman (2King 5): Den still remembered this story. Mary and I told this story last year during one of our homeschool lessons. I put lots of dots on Den's big plastic doll and then wash away the dots to show that God heals Naaman. Until today she still calls the doll "Naaman";


• Elisha prayed for his servant so that he can see God's army surrounding them (2 King 6)

After that, we practiced phonics. She is getting more and more comfortable in reading, even normal books (words that she read in Teach your child to read in 100 lessons are written with special symbols, she will only learn to read the normal word in the later part of the program). It required a very great effort on her part to read and she can only do it for a short period of time before she gets too tired.

After that, we read SPY's email. We asked her some questions about fish and she finally replied. She also included some very good internet links. I went to those links and downloaded some pictures and put them into Den's scrapbook.

We also replied to a long long email to our friend in Germany. We met this catholic family in Langkawi, they have 2 daughters - 3 & 6 years old. Den became good friends with them even though they don't speak English and Den doesn't speak German!:)

After that, we read What's Under The Sea. We studied animals in the North & South Poles as well as the divers! These are some of the interesting things we learned:

• Penguins have waterproof feathers (I explain waterproof - Den had fun playing with my waterproof watch!)


• Most of the penguins live in the southern polar seas!! (I thought most of them live at the North Pole!)


• Seal is also a mammal that lives mostly underwater. (I thought only whales!)


• Polar bears live near the North Pole and are strong swimmers (I didn't know they can swim!)


• Deep sea divers wear hard suits that protect them from the water pressure. They breathe oxygen from tanks inside. There is also a pump that supplies hot water around the suit to keep the diver warm!

We also learned about the underwater archaeologists who explore shipwrecks and look for relics including jewels and stuff. Den's eyes lighted up when she heard jewels! She is now seriously consider become one of the underwater archaeologists. Sometimes I wonder if she is really my daughter, how can she loves jewels so much when I dislike them so much.

After that, we practice Chinese Flashcards. She still has problems with last week's words but I decided to go ahead with the new words anyway. Just continue to flash those she doesn't get. The new words are - 过，到，得，了.

She did a lot of worksheets today. Some she did in the afternoon and some she did at night. She did 1 math worksheet (addition to 20), and 5 from Sonlight Developing The Early Learner Book 2. We are a bit behind so I am trying to catch up.