After 2 weeks off from our regular routine, it was good to get back on track today. We started our morning using our new calendar. Today we just did the basics of completing the date and weather, but over the next few weeks I plan to incorporate some other activities into our calendar time, especially some math skills like counting by 5's and 10's.
Another new routine of ours is to decorate these large letter cut-outs. I have an upper-case and lower-case set for the entire alphabet. Today we decorated the A's with apple stickers. The girls had a lot of fun doing this. After, we wrote some a's on kindergarten ruled paper and they each picked an "a" word to spell. Sophie picked "apple" and Zoe chose "ant."
Our theme for January is "God Made the World." Today we read the creation story from the girls' Jewish Kids Bible. We talked about the first day and completed a page of what will be part of a homemade book. Today's page had a scratch-art paper on it for the girls to decorate. I also had them paste the text of the story at the bottom of the page. After they completed their pages, we went into our guest room closet, which has the light switch on the outside of the door. So while the girls were in the dark closet, I waited outside. They would yell, "Let there be light!" and I would turn the light on for them. They thought this was so fun that they wanted to keep on playing it while I went and made snack.
It seems like it's going to take us a few days to ease back into our schooling, but I'm excited for this month. We've got some field trips planned and lots of fun activities and projects. I'm noticing that Zoe is content to sit at the table and do pencil and paper activities, but Sophie prefers to be up and about, doing hands-on projects and experiments, so I'm working on finding some appropriate science projects to do. I'm glad to have a good start to the new year and am looking forward to the rest of this month!
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