BIBLE- Danica prays with me or her dad everyday. She attends church with us. She understands that God loves us very much. She understands that God made the world and everything in it, but she also knows that people make things using what God has given us. She understands that Jesus is God’s son. She knows that God is always with her wherever she goes. Danica knows that Jesus died on the cross and that 3 days later God brought him back to life. She understands that Jesus was a child and grew up to an adult. She is in AWANA. She has watched several episodes of Veggietales. She has also watched several videos of Little K which is specifically a video series that the Sunday School in our church uses.
HEALTH AND CAREER- We finally received our Healthy Horizons books on Oct 19th. She has done lessons 1-4
Danica dresses herself, brushes her own teeth and bathes herself. She knows that there are healthy foods and junk foods. Danica knows that healthy foods grow our bodies and that junk foods are not good for us but are okay once in a while. She knows that washing our hands is a good way to stop germs from spreading. She covers her mouth with her sleeve when she sneezes or coughs. She knows that sharing is a good thing to do. She can identify the basic emotions and quite a few of the more complicated ones.
LANGUAGE ARTS- Danica has completed the formation of capital letters in her Handwriting Without Tears workbook (pg 9-39). She is currently working on the lowercase letters and has completed pgs 40-59. The book also works on number formation which she has completed (pg 84-94).
In Come Sit By Me, Danica has done the units Growing Up (pg 23-52) , and People in My Neighbourhood (pg 53-82).
From The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading Danica has completed Section 1 (short vowel sounds, pg 5-16) and Section 2 (consonant sounds, pg 17-68). She is now working out of Section 3 (short vowel words, pg 69-91) and has completed up to lesson 38.
MATH- We finally received our Right Start Math curriculum Oct 19th. She has done lessons 1-7
Danica loves creating patterns. She can count to 30 with no help and to 100 with some help. She likes helping measure things out and mix in the kitchen when I am baking/cooking.
In HWT she has completed formation of the numbers (pg 84-94).
PE- Danica actively plays everyday whether it is bike riding, trampoline, hide and seek, tag, dancing, digging in dirt, foot racing, and/or general running. She went on walks through the neighbourhood and a few nature walks/hikes.
SCIENCE- From Come Sit By Me, Danica learned about how fire needs oxygen to burn and what smoke is. She learned that fire burns dry things more easily. She learned about camouflage in nature, molecules and chromatography. She learned about yeast and bubbles in bread products. Also about chemical reactions. She learned about growing bodies, and deciduous teeth.
She collected leaves and nature things everywhere that she could. She loves to compare and observe. She has noticed the change in the trees and the weather as we move into fall.
We have a vermicomposter with red wriggler worms. Danica is learning about what to feed the worms and knows that they make good soil for our vegetable garden. She has observed baby worms and adult worms.
Danica has observed fruits and vegetables growing in our yard and her grandparents’ yards as well. She knows that fruits and vegetables grow. She has also observed a active orchard.
SOCIAL STUDIES- Danica has been learning about the community and surroundings around her by working through Come Sit By Me and through observing her surroundings. She has been on several “field trips” including; hiking in Tranquille Creek, Paul Lake, Quesnel Lake, Likely, Adams River salmon run, Davidson Orchards, Planet Bee, Kamloops Art Gallery, Arnica Art Gallery, Cooper’s bakery, Westsyde Petting Farm, local parks, a bird sanctuary/pond, Kamloops Lake, her auntie’s farm, and everyday life things like grocery shopping and going to the post office.
She has noticed that there is a change in the trees and weather as we move into fall. She has also noticed that this means we need to wear jackets and pants instead of tanks and shorts.
FINE ARTS- Danica loves to create. She draws and colours daily. She makes art with paper, glue, scissors, yarn, glitter, stickers, stamps, wood, paint, and playdoh. We have only started using the Artistic Pursuits book. She has done lesson 1.
