Creation

We survived the creation unit! There were really times I was beginning to wonder. One things for sure, the first couple weeks ended up being much harder than I had expected. This is my first year trying to teach two different grade levels with 2 separate curriculum's, and take care of a toddler. Even though I'm trying to involve both girls in most things it's definitely more challenging than when Boo was just tagging along. We've been switching around our schedule trying to find what works and what doesn't.

 After our pretty successful first day we basically had to write day 2 off as a fail! Baby Bear woke up and decided she no longer wanted to wear clothes or diapers. She also decided she no longer needed her nap! She stripped probably 20 times throughout the day, and had more accidents than I can count. I finally put her down for her nap to do our creation book. She was so quiet I thought she had worn herself out. Well, she must have actually felt left out of craft time, because she decided to paint her crib with poop. I'm sure all of you mom's can relate to those kind of days! We managed to finish our work, but I was in tears by the end of the day! After that things calmed down a bit, and I think we're finally starting to fall into some sort of routine.

Boo ended up really enjoying the creation unit and Sis told me this is her favorite school year so far, so I guess things are not as bad as they seem to me. This was an introduction unit so we did an overview and review of the whole alphabet. This was actually Boo's first exposure to lowercase letters. She's had such a struggle with capital letters that I've never tried to teach her those yet. I was actually impressed with how many she could remember at the end of our unit. Next week we will begin focusing on one letter a week for the rest of the year to match our science theme. Creation was actually a perfect intro topic, because in just a few weeks we have a big trip planned to the Creation Museum in KY! Every vacation is actually a big field trip in this family! Hopefully we will see a lot of neat things there that we learned about this past couple weeks, and maybe learn even more about God's creation.

The one thing the girls were most excited about doing was the creation snacks/treat to go along with Boos lessons, so I managed to get all the stuff we needed to make those each day. We probably could have come up with some healthier options for most of the days , but oh well it was fun!
Here's what we came up with:

Day7: God Rested- We talked about how Sunday is our day of rest, so we relaxed, watched a movie and   had Ice-cream sundays!

We also made a creation book with one page for each lesson. I just stapled together 8 sheets of construction paper (all pink and purple of course!) and each day we made a page using our crayons, construction paper, stickers, and felt .

Day 7 is just a blank page with the number 7 that says "God rested."

We even squeezed in a little trip to the pet store to see how many kinds of birds and fish we could count to go along with day 5. Of course, her favorite fish was the pink and purple glo-fish! We didn't find any pink and purple birds, but there was a pretty cool parrot.

SIS HIGHLIGHT: 

Sis has been working on memorizing states and capitals. In just this last couple weeks she's actually got quite a few of them down! She's been using the "Yo Sacramento" book and The Little man on the Map.  She started learning her multiplication facts too. She'll be memorizing all of those over the course of this year. I am really bad at math so even though she's excited, I'm secretly crying that we're moving on from multiple digit subtraction. I'm thinking a few years from now dad's gonna be the math teacher! She also got 100% on her first spelling test of the year!

I love this Melissa & Doug floor puzzle we bought. It has individual state pieces and capitals too. 

Here are some pics from our water pressure experiment. We learned what happens to our lungs under deep ocean water...they shrink!

She also LOVES the "Tour the States" song and listens to it everyday. She has most of the words memorized. It is a pretty catchy tune. It's stuck in my head about 5 days out of the week which is annoying, but it's helping her to remember her states and capitals. 

Well the first 7 days of our school year and our Creation Introduction Unit are in the books! Next week Boo moves on to our first Alphabet themed unit: Ss is for Sun.