Day 3, 4 and 5...cause the days kind of roll together :)

Day 3: 

Our highlights from wednesday:

 We did a experiment with milk, food dye and dish soap..we watched as the colors mixed and observed what colors were made when mixed together. 

While on a our bike ride, Isaac pointed out which were fall colored leaves, he showed me so many different ones then decided to bring home a red one, orange and yellow one. We read a couple stories that were Autumn themed books so he knew what to look for on our bike ride. (I enjoy teaching him something that he can observe in our everyday life and then reference back to the teaching.) 

In Bible we learnt of the burning bush that God spoke out of to Moses and the boys liked that, we colored a burning bush template, they loved the idea of God speaking and making fire. 

The book's we enjoyed: It's Fall by Jimmy Picking and Autumn Leaves by Saunders-Smith. 

Day 4:
This was a VERY busy day, it was fun and we did a lot of stuff..I think his brain was super duper full..in my professional lingo again ;)
My highlight was Isaac telling me that he actually "likes this homeschooling". (YAY!!! I was jumping for joy in my heart)

Bible: I printed out most of this memory verse but today I left the letters I knew he could do (a ingenious thing that a smart lady (my Mom) mentioned too do)  He felt so happy with himself and was proud that he could do the writing without even tracing it :) 
Math was good he still needs to be challenged a bit more he understands so much that I just don't know if we will even do this program. He worked on recognizing groups of 5.  

For language he did a game from my Konos character book, he went outside and identifying different things with words printed on paper for him.... hard, soft, broken, shinny, flat, wood, open, closed. 

We took some old boxes to the recycling bins and spoke all about what means to recycle, why we recycle, what we can put in our blue recycling bins at home and why we do that. We went to Lyons and spoke to a lady about getting a compost. We talked about what a compost is and does for us. We talked about what things we put in a compost and how it turns into compost. He has learnt from somewhere that worms make compost by eating and well...excreting it and we discussed that while compost is a waste or material that is broken down stuff, it is valuable in a garden as it feeds the plants when we plant our gardens in the spring and through out the year. 

We read about God creating light in Bible today so I decided to figure out a game or activity that we could do with light. We drew out shadow silhouettes of our heads and played a game called spot light (don't get caught in the light or you had to do a silly dance :) 
We watched a couple videos on jr. Brain pop about lights, shadows, light passing thru objects, and even energy sources. We talked about all different things that the light (from the sun) travels thru and doesn't pass thru which makes a shadow..glass patios set, the umbrella,  the flowers petals, metal, something shinny reflects the light. 

I had to work tonight so I asked dh to read a science book about light to them and he even did some experience with him. (love that the dh is supportive and even actually a great teacher!)
To end our day off we went and bought a friend a present for his birthday, I asked Iks to really think about what he felt his friend would like and I gave him a money limit, showed him how much the amount looked like on my calculator and he even did great picking something out age appropriate and is super excited to give his friend the present on saturday!

Day 5:
Today's Bible was about the firmament (sky & air) so we played with balloons, we blew them up using our air from our lungs that came from our noses that we inhaled..(that's a lot of info right there)
He printed most of his memory verse, letters G, D,A, E, I, D, M with no help :)
Math was better today we worked on 5 + 1 making him aware of 6 is 5 plus 1 more. 

We did more of our language book but then I decided when he was getting uninterested in saying the same sound over, and over, and over again... I just brought out the white board and he read me some simple words..LAP, SAT, HAT, CAT, MAT...and so on, he understand most of the letters phonetic sounds already so today we got more little reader books for him from the library. 

I think I might want to make him some little reader books, when I find time, just something simple. I have a laminator..maybe just for this :)
And maybe he could make his own too. Ooohhh..That would be fun. 

If you saw my house right now you would agree it has been a busy full homeschool week :)

Now off to the pool for P.E....and some needed family time. 

Have a GREAT weekend.