The newest interest from the game cabinet is STRATEGO.
Principal loves this game, and has since he was a boy. Student began playing this past weekend. Pairing her with Toddler, the testosterone began to fill the air...
"I'm going to kill your soldier!" he shouted with his fist raised.
"Ah, ha ha ha...BOMB!" he snorted with his chest exposed.
Meanwhile, Student just sat, quietly keeping track of moves in her mind, and fully enveloped herself in the strategy of capturing Toddler's flag. Her lady-like scheming was oh-so-familiar! Before too long...the room was less crowded.
And so flows the hormones at Homeschool today. Toddler ended up trying his fine-motor-skills at OPERATION.
And another thank you to Mrs. S for coming to Homeschool to conduct violin lesson.
As she is always a treat to meet with, the way her brain can blossom in every environment was truly encouraging. They carried on like it was a normal session...this may become our practices for the winter, so praise God it is working! Toddler was napping during lesson today, so Teacher even had the opportunity play while Mascot was swinging to sleep!
Reading through Grimm's Fairy Tales, thanks Grandmother for gifting me this extraordinary book 20 years ago on my 10th birthday, our cuddle and read session brought Rose Bud AKA: Sleeping Beuaty to life! Student learned some vocabulary terms:
"...lamented the fairy's gift."
"...plucked the foul."
Yes, I know how to pluck...and when she tried to guess what foul meant, we used the poultry clue, and popped right up with the right answer. "...plucked the feathers!"
Cursive and Language seatwork was done. Student is working on remembering the capital letters, and end punctuation. She tires of this process early on, and her sentences are often left in the middle...so hard to have patience. Wonder where she got this?
History from I Samuel, chapters 4-10. We practiced being oxen and a wagon, like the one carrying the Ark of the Covenant...and both Student and Toddler have heads that are still in-tact!
We reviewed vocab words and added 2 new ones and Student's guess of the definitions:
Predict: to say something will happen
Plague: to come over some people, a bad thing
Student: My favorite vocabulary word this time is EFFORT! I just think about how God says do your best effort in trying to obey. Sometimes we stumble, but it reminds me not to give up. Persevere.
