To keep us busy and help me experiment with homeschooling, we are working our way through Five in a Row... You read a book 5 days in a row and then do a little activity after each reading session. This week we are reading The Story about Ping by Marjorie Flack. It is a really cute story about a duck named Ping on the Yangtze river in China. We pulled out the big map and found China and the Yangtze river... a great review for Emily from the days when we used to track her Daddy's world travels. David has never really looked at a map and had no idea about any of it! Poor second child. Emily has been looking at maps since she was 2! Anyway, after we looked at the map we found a satellite view of China and the river on the internet. In pure Chris Nelli form, Emily zoomed in and out of the map view for about half an hour!
In the story Ping has a mom and dad, 2 sisters, 3 brothers, 11 aunts, 7 uncles, and 42 cousins. So today we cut out a duck family and glued them onto pictures we drew of the river and the boat. I suppose you could call this math since we practiced our counting. ;-)
Here are some pictures:
I helped David draw his river and boat. He was very excited to color it. You can also see we gave him a hair cut on Sunday. So cute!
Emily is busy glueing her ducks on her boat. Lia insists on having her own work to do as well. I've said it before, but it is amazing how beautifully she fits in our family.
Emily went on to practice her handwriting (2 worksheets) and then played with her Norwegian puzzle from our friend Runar's family. To get some play time in for the kids (and some Mommy time for me) we headed out to the YMCA so I could take a Body Pump class before lunch. Now we are all having some quiet time. Emily starts round 2 of swimming lessons this afternoon.
More later!
First all I like David's new hair cut! How did he respond to having his hair cut this time...better I hope :)
ReplyDeletePing sounds much like a 'Nelli' with all those family members...there's a math lesson..counting all the Nelli's. This would also be a great family tree lesson, but it might take a week to complete it :)