This past week was a success with the Little Hearts to Heaven and Phonics programs! Praise God. It is amazing what the purposeful activities and cleaning the house has down for me. I get up ready to start the day and am excited to take care of my home and children. I really needed to be taking care (cleaning, washing veg/fruit, ironing, etc) of my own home right now. I also needed a plan of action with my kids. Little Hearts to Heaven as definately been a blessing for us. This week's activities introduced the stories of Cain & Able & Noah and the flood. The song for the week is addorable and goes along t=with the wall art that you see in the above pciture. Adeline & Darton pick up on the songs on day one and can sing them almost solo by day two. We discussed emotions and sang Row, Row, Row Your Boat while having angry, sad, sleepy, and excited faces. This was their favorite activity of the week and continually ask me to sing it. We also acted as animals getting on Noah's boat and experimented with what sinks and floats. Here is our Sink/Float chart with the items placed accordingly. 
Letter recognition activity: I painted upper and lower case Bs and the kids painted in the circles. 
Using blocks to make the letter B. The curriculum suggests using masking tape, but when you live in the tropics outside activities (in your underwear) are more fun ;)
Adeline worked this week on making circles and lines. I didn't expect problems with this activity, but creating circles from the 2 point on the clock and working counterclockwise is NOT how she draws a normal circle. The first two days she didn't trace the circles and lines, but recreated them on her own (as what she was suppose to do). By the third day I wisened up and and she traced the filled-out teacher form to guide her. She was MUCH MORE willing to do this on days 3 & 4. As you can imagine, the work for a normal 5 or 6 year old who is starting this phonics program includes a lot more in day one than just writing circles and lines. I am adjusting the program accordingly and suspect that we are on the two year track since she is only 4. Yes, Gradmommie that is Barbie in the picture watching Adeline doing her work! 
We started celebrating Adeline's 4th birthday yesterday by constructing a sandbox for her birthday present. Darton has already proven to us that he will enjoy it more. It only took 4 hardware stores and three hours to get what we needed ;)...that's life in the DR. Scott was thrilled, as was I, that we didn't run into any unexpected problems and it was all constructed (minus gluing down padding) by last night. 
D is sitting on the foam that needs to be glued down to not only protect the tarp, but their hineys :)
Using blocks to make the letter B. The curriculum suggests using masking tape, but when you live in the tropics outside activities (in your underwear) are more fun ;)Adeline worked this week on making circles and lines. I didn't expect problems with this activity, but creating circles from the 2 point on the clock and working counterclockwise is NOT how she draws a normal circle. The first two days she didn't trace the circles and lines, but recreated them on her own (as what she was suppose to do). By the third day I wisened up and and she traced the filled-out teacher form to guide her. She was MUCH MORE willing to do this on days 3 & 4. As you can imagine, the work for a normal 5 or 6 year old who is starting this phonics program includes a lot more in day one than just writing circles and lines. I am adjusting the program accordingly and suspect that we are on the two year track since she is only 4. Yes, Gradmommie that is Barbie in the picture watching Adeline doing her work! We started celebrating Adeline's 4th birthday yesterday by constructing a sandbox for her birthday present. Darton has already proven to us that he will enjoy it more. It only took 4 hardware stores and three hours to get what we needed ;)...that's life in the DR. Scott was thrilled, as was I, that we didn't run into any unexpected problems and it was all constructed (minus gluing down padding) by last night. D is sitting on the foam that needs to be glued down to not only protect the tarp, but their hineys :)We also entertained 3 different play times this week in our home and Scotty has tomorrow off for a Dominican holiday. We plan on going to the beach, getting A's tea party ready for Tuesday, and of course celebrating her actually bday!
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What a week! It all sounds like fun and we wish we were there to play in the sandbox! Lots of Love!
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