Rebekah's Insights

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Hello, again! As promised I am writing to provide an update on our exploration of the letter C! Unfortunately, I have not gotten many photos so far and none of the photos are as yet uploaded to the gallery, so this will need to wait until next week. But here is what we've been up to!

• Liam helped Momma make and bake chocolate chip cookies! He did like adding
ingredients, but tasting the chips to be sure they were good for the cookies, was
the biggest hit with both Liam and Aine!
• Liam learned a lot about colors, since the word begins with C, and loves to go
around the house identifying the colors he sees while playing with Play-Doh,
coloring, or just looking at books, etc.
• We created a list of Cc words which included, cloud, clown, caterpillar, cookie, and
cow, among others. (I’d say that COW became THE most memorable C word, when on
Sunday we looked outside at one of the pastures and saw cows trying to jump on each
other’s backs. Liam thought THIS was the funniest sight!)
• Liam completed the fifth catechism question, “Why should you glorify God?” A:
“Because He loves me and takes care of me.” He is also really enjoying learning the
songs to a variety of Scripture Memory verses and is learning to say the verse,
Matthew 19:14, “ Let the little children come to Me and do not forbid them for of
such is the kingdom of heaven.”
• Liam is continuing to work on counting when he gets out his daily snack, which was
Chocolate animal Crackers for C week. (We are, of course, focusing on seeing the
letter in print at this point, not so much the sounds, so CH words work at this
stage.)
• Liam worked on making C’s on his own paper. (I have encouraged him to just make
whatever he can, but interestingly, this week he asked me to help him make a C over
and over again. He seems to want his letters to look more like the real ones, now.)

Well, that about catches us up on the school accounts. This week we are working on the letter D, and beginning some new things with the start of the new month. (It helps that William and I finally started on the third floor boxes this past weekend and I was able to locate some more of my teaching materials that I had been unable to locate prior to beginning the “School Year.”

I will endeavor to post the account of the week’s school happenings on Friday of each week!