Machu Piccu and story problems! :)

"Praise, Praise, Praise the Lord Worship Him today. Trust the Lord with all your heart. Worship Him and pray."

(song sung to row, row, row your boat tune)... taken from Proverbs 3:5 :)

We continued our study of the 7 continents... we have done Antarctica, Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa, and today we did South America. Here is a pic of Machu Piccu, the Incan 'city in the clouds', built in up in the Andes Mountains of South America. We learned a little about this city, about the Amazon River, about the Rain Forests and some of the many animals there, including the HUGE anacondas!. Kendyl drew a pic of Machu Piccu, but was sad that it didn't have castles, kings and queens, like Europe! :) So she drew a little girl, dressing up like a queen instead! :) Tomorrow we will begin our study into North America, which will branch out to begin learning about democracy, important historical events, etc. of our continent, country, state and then city! :)

Since Kendyl is still forgetting the 'n' in 'thank' and the 'k' in 'smack' sometimes, we are keeping those on her spelling list for this week. We added some more words--more Bible related this time... Bible, Jesus, love, loves, you, me + the smack and thank from last week. So, while going over them, Kendyl asked if we could do playdough letters again... so that's what we did...she 'wrote', "Jesus loves Mom and Dad and Aden and Kendyl" all by herself! :) Then she did a journaling page with the same words and a picture of our family, and a huge cloud. She told me that Jesus lives up in the big cloud :).

We continued working on 'some, some more and some, some went away' stories (addition and subtraction 'story problems'). Since it's now Fall, we used 'apples' to add and subtract. We cut out apple shapes, then I would give Kendyl a story problem. Example: Kendyl picked 3 apples and put them into her bowl, then her brother picked 2 apples and put them into Kendyl's bowl. She glued the apples onto her 'bowl' to represent what happened in the 'story'. Subtraction example: Kendyl had 5 apples in her bowl. Then she gave three of them to her Dad to bring in his lunch for work....she would glue the first 5 apples in her bowl, then cross out the apples that were given to Dad. After each 'problem', she would write the math equation. We also did these 'stories' with toys and wrote the equations on a chalkboard.... part of her math practice sheet today, had her draw these types of stories. It was a lot of fun and she's really understanding it well! :)

We read some stories and worked on her sight words and blends. We also did our Bible lesson--today we read about Gideon and how the Israelites had stopped worshipping the true God and started worshipping idols--so God stopped protecting and helping them. After a long time of this, he heard their cries and sent an angel to Gideon to tell him that he (Gideon) was going to defeat the mideanites...Gideon trusted God and built an altar for the True God and worshipped him. We talked about how we can worship God (prayer, praise, studying our Bible, and giving to God's kingdom). We learned our new verse, "trust the Lord with all your heart." proverbs 3:5.

Planning on doing some more games to practice math and reading this afternoon. :)