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Showing posts with label God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
1/17/12: God provides
We've been having problems with Elodie being consumed with fear, mostly completely irrational fear. And what is this week's take home lesson from BSF? Maybe I should have looked at it sooner!!
Monday, January 16, 2012
1/16/12: L sayings and schooling
This morning L had a total meltdown and was sent into a time out. There, I could hear her crying, "I'm separated from God!!" and then, "I want God. I want God. I want God." I guess that lesson about sin last week is sinking in.
After that she kept crying and screaming "I'm scared" and she was trembling in fear. It took me a LONG time to calm her down. There was much explanation that goblins and ghosts are not real. Much explanation that we don't have wolfs down here and that coyotes are not in our house. Then a couple hours later when she was getting in her bed for her quiet time, she spontaneously said something like I'm throwing all my scaredness up to Jesus. He's taking it for me. :)
Have you wondered what a homeschooling day looks like for us? I spent a few hours yesterday putting things into our online calendar so that things that repeated week after week would just be there. Then I just have to add the things that change each week. I usually do 3 weeks of planning at a time since her units this year are in 3 week intervals. Things went much smoother being able to reference my cell phone calendar for a list of what needed to get done this morning for school.
We started at 9AM with her Bible memory verses (while I got Callen into his highchair, gave him food, poured my cereal & milk, and ate). Then we went over her ABC flashcards. She already knows all her letters so we use them to review the sounds the letters make. She pretty much knows all her sounds too, with the exception of maybe one or two (some letters have more than one sound). After that she was supposed to do two pages in her workbook. This is where the meltdown came in. She didn't want to do the pages and she didn't want to write her name in uppercase and lowercase letters (she only wanted to write her name in all capitals). Then it took an hour and ten minutes to have her tantrum and calmed back down. When she was screaming, I grabbed the laundry and stuck a load in the wash. She finally did her two pages, with minor complaints. She was doing some coloring (the number 6 and six dolls) and then tracing the number 6. The second page was on 'g' so she colored a grasshopper, added grass to the page, and traced the letter g. Then we had lunch. When I finally sat down to eat, I had her review her kindergarten and 1st grade sight words. I think she knew 19 of the 20 kindergarten words and knew maybe 7 of the 40 1st grade words. We haven't review those in months so I was impressed. Callen was still eating so I had Elodie grab a Bob book to read, while I put a load of wash in the dryer. I was so proud of her. She didn't get frustrated or mad or throw a fit, like she has in the past. She went over the three sight words in the front and then was able to read the whole book. She either knew the word by heart or was able to sound it out. Super proud mama and daddy!! After Callen finally finished lunch, we went downstairs to listen to a story on George Washington. Then we did a snowman craft. She picked out pink paper for her snowman. I traced the circles and she cut out the smallest circle and told me to cut out the others. She then pasted them to the paper. She drew buttons, eyes, sunglasses, arms, stomach (the thing in the bottom circle "so he can eat"), and a mouth on her snowman. I drew the carrot nose on and outlined a hat, which she then traced and colored in. We finished with eight minutes to spare before quiet time. Then after her quiet time, I had her watch two short videos on MLK, Jr. since it's MLK, Jr. Day today.
After that she kept crying and screaming "I'm scared" and she was trembling in fear. It took me a LONG time to calm her down. There was much explanation that goblins and ghosts are not real. Much explanation that we don't have wolfs down here and that coyotes are not in our house. Then a couple hours later when she was getting in her bed for her quiet time, she spontaneously said something like I'm throwing all my scaredness up to Jesus. He's taking it for me. :)
Have you wondered what a homeschooling day looks like for us? I spent a few hours yesterday putting things into our online calendar so that things that repeated week after week would just be there. Then I just have to add the things that change each week. I usually do 3 weeks of planning at a time since her units this year are in 3 week intervals. Things went much smoother being able to reference my cell phone calendar for a list of what needed to get done this morning for school.
We started at 9AM with her Bible memory verses (while I got Callen into his highchair, gave him food, poured my cereal & milk, and ate). Then we went over her ABC flashcards. She already knows all her letters so we use them to review the sounds the letters make. She pretty much knows all her sounds too, with the exception of maybe one or two (some letters have more than one sound). After that she was supposed to do two pages in her workbook. This is where the meltdown came in. She didn't want to do the pages and she didn't want to write her name in uppercase and lowercase letters (she only wanted to write her name in all capitals). Then it took an hour and ten minutes to have her tantrum and calmed back down. When she was screaming, I grabbed the laundry and stuck a load in the wash. She finally did her two pages, with minor complaints. She was doing some coloring (the number 6 and six dolls) and then tracing the number 6. The second page was on 'g' so she colored a grasshopper, added grass to the page, and traced the letter g. Then we had lunch. When I finally sat down to eat, I had her review her kindergarten and 1st grade sight words. I think she knew 19 of the 20 kindergarten words and knew maybe 7 of the 40 1st grade words. We haven't review those in months so I was impressed. Callen was still eating so I had Elodie grab a Bob book to read, while I put a load of wash in the dryer. I was so proud of her. She didn't get frustrated or mad or throw a fit, like she has in the past. She went over the three sight words in the front and then was able to read the whole book. She either knew the word by heart or was able to sound it out. Super proud mama and daddy!! After Callen finally finished lunch, we went downstairs to listen to a story on George Washington. Then we did a snowman craft. She picked out pink paper for her snowman. I traced the circles and she cut out the smallest circle and told me to cut out the others. She then pasted them to the paper. She drew buttons, eyes, sunglasses, arms, stomach (the thing in the bottom circle "so he can eat"), and a mouth on her snowman. I drew the carrot nose on and outlined a hat, which she then traced and colored in. We finished with eight minutes to spare before quiet time. Then after her quiet time, I had her watch two short videos on MLK, Jr. since it's MLK, Jr. Day today.
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
9/6/11: L's behaving better...
Last night Dave was telling me that he thinks Elodie's been acting better lately. He said that I've been telling him she's been good on a regular basis. I honestly can't remember day to day so I told him if that's what I said then it must be. All this to say, I told Elodie this morning, "daddy says you've been a really good girl lately and we're really proud of you." She said, "That makes God happy. God's smiling in my heart." :D :D :D Makes this mama REALLY happy. It's neat that she's associating the two. We're thinking that the change started after she accepted Jesus into her heart. **insert beaming mama here!**
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