Little Hands to Heaven: Week 4

Isaac and His Sons (Dd)

Week 4 of Little Hands to Heaven was a fun one! Here's our week four in review!

We learned how Jacob lied to his father by pretending to be Isaac by acting out the Bible story, complete with hairy arms! Mason got a kick out of this...Max thought it would make a better hat! 

 The weekly math concept was general measuring and comparing distances. One day, we pulled out some yarn and I measured each of the boys. They practiced writing their names on notecards, then taped in up on the wall. They loved this activity and it stayed up as decoration all week!

We also used counting bears as a unit of measure. Mason collected items from the house and we measured how many counting bears "long" each item was.

This math activity below went along with our Bible story that day about how Jacob traveled a long distance before he met Rachel. The boys were pretending the bear was Rachel and we compared the jumps using words like shorter, farther, and closest.

This is one of the math activities we do every week. Mason practices drawing two items in each box and then counts by 2s. 

 We had our first rainy school day (definitely worth documenting here in Phoenix)!

 They love finding the letter of the week in the Hide and Seek pages.

We read about how Jacob wrestled with an angel all night to win God's blessing and then used stuffed animals to act out the scene. 

And more acting when Esau forgave Jacob and God blessed both brothers. I'm telling you, when these kids act out the Bible stories, they really do have a better understanding of it! It's also so much fun to watch them play. 

 Here is Mason doing the fingerplay for the week. He's pretending to hold the reins of a d-d-dusty camel!

 We are having a lot of fun with our letter activities each week. I think the highlight of the week is whatever day we make our crafty letter of the week. They just love this!

 We also have a good time with salt trays, wikki sticks, playdough, do-a-dot markers, books, and a whole bunch of fun letter activities to reinforce the letter each week.

And of course, they always love walking on our big letter of the week and practicing it's sound!

 My two little crazies are always bringing toys to school...and eating snacks!

We have been loving All About Reading, but I was having a hard time with the fact that AAR lessons (introduces all capital letters, then all lowercase, then sounds) weren't matching up to LHTH which introduces a letter a week. So this week, I decided to be crazy and do AAR out of order, so it went along up with LHTH better. Going out of order in AAR is somewhat challenging, especially since the curriculum is not designed for this. However, since he knows all his letters and the sounds they make I figured he would be up for a little challenge. I think it will work our nicely for him!