We had trouble being Industrious with our letter I as we started off the week with Illness again. Leroy this time, tho' he seemed to get over it much quicker then Phi. We only had one morning of illness and then were better.
We spent most of our time Indoors because it was very windy outside.
We spent most of our time Indoors because it was very windy outside.
We played Indians.
and of course had an Indian house, otherwise known as a tepee.
We did finger paint for something fun Indoors. He knows how to spell this much of his name by himself so that was his I practice for the week.
For his birthday he got a Mic-O-Mic helicopter.
It comes in lots of little pieces so daddy helped
and Instructed him how to put it all together.
We did Italian bread for dinner one evening.
And for his birthday dinner with Grandpa and Grandma we did Ice Cream!
Well, Grandpa did Ice cream with them.
Phi was Interested in the process
and cranked a few times before going off to do other things and leaving Grandpa to the cranking. 
But he was back again once it was ready for tasting!
Delicious, homemade Ice cream and brownies!
Our verse: I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father but by me. John 14:6
Our song ended up being, "I am so glad that Jesus loves me."as Phi picked that one for a favorite from all the 'I' songs in the childrens hymn book.
Leroy ended the week with Itching. He got hives quite badly from a new laundry softener we used (we think). Poor guy his little feet and hands swelled up huge and it came out all over his face too. We've rewashed all his clothes and everything and he seems to be better today.
We learned about Isaac all week going through his life up to where he married Rebekah. Which nicely brought us to his sons Esau and Jacob... but that's for another week.
A highlight of the week, after a reading one morning Leroy asked to pray. Phi wanted to after him and now they've begun asking to pray at lunch time and bed time. It's still repeat after me on Leroy's part, and half and half on Phi's.
I didn't get any pictures but we looked up the state of Illinois online and found coloring pages of their state bird, animal, fish and some that are just creatures that live there. They had a very informative website and more facts than you'd ever need to know about one state. Phi was especially excited about it since that's where A. Ruth lives!
Thanks for all the I Ideas everyone that left some last week. Feel free to leave J ones for this week. We may not get to them but it is great to have more ideas then just mine!
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Hi SJo. I've been meaning to leave you this comment for a while and keep forgetting...When I taught kindergarten we worked on a letter a week. We kept a "sound mail box" in the classroom. Ours happened to be a real large metal mail box. You could get a real one at HD, or make one out of cardboard if you wanted. Anyhow, the box sat by our letter board and each week students were allowed to bring in items that started with that letter. On the first day I would have a large collection of items and every day after that it was up to them to bring in new things. We'd review old items and check for new each day. It's a super way to check for understanding!
Jam/Jelly, Jello, Jay (as in the bird, Jacks (the game), Jack-in-the-box, Jelly beans, Jordan River,
Lol, I've run out of ideas... have fun :)
Something we are going to do today is take a large piece of paper from the easle roll and staple 26 clear sandwhich bags to it, each labled with a letter of the alphabet. What we will do is when we find little objects or pictures in advertisements/magazines, we will cut them out and put them in the corresponding "pocket" for the letter that object starts with. Maybe you could do one for each letter of the week and put in part of the box of Jell-o, a jack, a picture of a jacket, a picture of a joyful face,...... you could get really creative.
Enjoyed all your pictures! Happy b-day Phi!
Mmmmm...homemade ice cream! Doesn't get better than that! Makes up for anything you didn't get done I'm thinking!
J words: Jellyfish, jokes, James (book from the Bible), jumprope, Japan/Japanese food, Jobs people do...
Wow! thanks for all the great ideas! Phi loves Jay birds, and we did jelly beans, but we didn't think of Jump rope that's a good one.
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