Lessons with a 3.5 years old Part 4

Lesson 6: 23 Sept 2010

1115-1135: Bible Lesson: I’m Precious in God's eyes

• Bible Verse Psalm 119:73 (Learn how to find the book of Psalm in the Bible)
• Im precious little book (Den read)

 • Rhymes & Songs:

（Rhyme 1)

God made me special.

He made you special, too!
He gave me ears so I can hear.
He gave me eyes so I can see.
He gave me feet to tap, tap, tap.
He gave me hand to clap, clap, clap.
He gave me legs to walk, walk, walk.
He gave me a mouth so I can talk.
God made me special!
God made you special, too!

(Rhyme 2)
God made people special.
We start as tiny babies.
Then we grow bigger.
Soon we can walk and talk.
And we grow,
and grow,
and grow until we are all grown up!
God made people special!

Song 1: (Tune:London Bridge)
I’m so glad that God made me
God made me, God made me.
I’m so glad that God made me.
God made me special.

I’m so glad that God made hands (hair, feet, etc),
God made hands, God made hands,
I’m so glad that God made hands.
God made me special.

Song 2:
你很特别
管人怎样看着你的脸
你很特别
神爱世人没有分别
你很特别
自信花朵开满心里面
只要相信神造我们
就是很特别

1135-1145: Chinese Lesson: 凯文在大海中旅行：Learn body parts in Chinese

• Read 凯文在大海中旅行

• Sing 头发，肩旁，膝盖，脚趾 (Tune: Head and shoulders)

• Play -Chant: 手对手（脚对脚，肚子对肚子，etc） Boom Ti ada boom, boom (x2)


11:45-12:30 Science: Nature - Read from the Berenstain's Bear Big Book of Science and Nature (under science)


• God made vs Man made
• Craft: Went out door to look for things are made by God and cut things that are made by man from magazines

12:30-12:45 English Read Aloud: Poem, books


12:45-2:15 Lunch Break

2:15-2:45 Individual Time:

• Den: Work on copying Bible Verse and Math worksheet

• XE:

o Sudoku -I used Den sudoku game board 2x2 to teach her the game.

o Worksheet - I started her on Sonlight Developing the Early Learner Level One (under workbook)


Lesson 7: 24 Sept 2010

11:15-Noon Review Bible & Chinese Lesson

Noon-12:45 Using Shape to paint  (introduce Shape name in Chinese)-  正方形，长方形，三角形，圆形:

Den's artwork

XE's artwork

12:15-01:00 Clean up

1:00 Lunch and Library

14 Oct 2010

I am sick. We were supposed to have school with the 3.5 years old XE today but I got throat infection and cant really talked. So we had to cancel school last minute.

Instead, Den and I had a quite day at home.

She practiced her piano (45 min) and did 3 homeworks (about 1.5 hours)  -

1. Reading Comprehension - Using Disney Princess Reading Comprehension. I bought this last year but it was too difficult for her then. Now is just nice. She read the story her self and answer the written questions her self.

She has no problem in understanding stories but this is a very good practice in learning to answer question in a proper manner.

2. Grammar -Continued using Enchanted English Key Stage 1 (you can read more about this here). Today is a review on what we had learned for the past few lessons - alphabet order, plurals, present tense, ck ending, magic e (or silence E) and past tense.

3. Sudoku- I recently found a good sudoku for kids in Book Xcess (Amcop Mall, PJ). I cant remember the name of the book now. It cost RM12.90, a bit expensive for a sudoku book...since the one I'm using only cost me RM1!

But I like it that it came in 3 levels - starting with 2x2 boxes, then 3x2 boxes finally normal 3x3 boxes. In each level, the difficulties increased with each puzzles.

Den just started doing the 3x2 boxes. She is not very good at it yet. She understands what need to be done and how to do it but she keep making mistakes, so most of the time I need to work with her.

After that we make a craft (1 hour) - using colorful crystals and make a wind chime. I bought it from a homeschooling garage sales in SG.  It only cost SGD1!! This is the 2nd time we worked with these colorful crystal beads, I think we did a good job.

We only had time for the activities above. I planed to let her work on Chinese and Reading but we never make it there....tomorrow is another day! Any way, we had fun staying home. When I asked her can we have another quite day at home tomorrow, just like today. She agreed eagerly. ^^

Books

For those who are interested in the books that I used:

1. Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons

2. Nick Jr. Dora the Explorer Easy Sudoku Puzzles #1

3. The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature

Please follow the link http://www.squidoo.com/ahomeschoolingmomjornel and go to another site that I created because I have no idea how to link up to Amazon in Blogspot. So until I figure it out, I will put all my book recommendations on the Squidoo site. Heard that it is a bit slow, but it has the picture of the books and an Amazon link!

Updated: Squidoo is no longer in service and I have since then learned how to add a link to Amazon :)