Week 1 Sun

"Jesus said I am the light of the world"

This week we learned about the Sun, the letter S, and that Jesus is the Light of the World. I really wanted to make sun tea and turn gapes into raisins, but that is really hard to do without the sun. As soon as it stops raining and the sun joins us again, we will make sure to do them.

Books we read:
The Sun is My Favorite Star
To Be Like The Sun
Sun Up, Sun Down
Wake Up Sun!
Moonbear's Shadow
The Salamander Room

Jake pulled out the paints today and make his sun. He really enjoyed himself.  I was very grateful, as he really doesn't like to color at all.  



This is his version of what the sun looks like.



You know little Ashley would never be left out of craft time.  She spends a few hours a day doing crafts.

Ashley's Sun

I was even brave enough to let Max join in today.  I handled the mess pretty good!

Max's Art Piece (the sun)

For our tactile lettering we used marshmallows to make the letter S.  All the kids love this, and of course they ate them at our next break. I have to remember to do more fun things like this.

Jake made his badge for the week.  We decided to get the beads out and add them to make a necklace (boy necklace of course)

I found a great free site that will allow you to print any paragraph to be copies, so Jake copied our theme this week.

This week was really relaxing for us.  The letter S was a review for Jake, so this was a great letter for us to start with.  He even started asking to do school work before I was ready by the end of the week.  I'm looking forward to next week: M, Moon.  I already have my books from the library and his folder is put together. 

I also decided to start the girls at day 33-34 for now, as we just finished learning the er, ir, ur sounds.  I really love the Charlotte Mason style, so this is fitting right in for us.