Day 2: More Creation & Solar System

Day 2 of BKS Prep is in the books though it didn't go as well as yesterday. For starters, I don't think I was as prepared for today's schedule as the first day. K complained that we did school yesterday so why do we have to do it again and pretty much kept that way of thinking for the full stretch of activities.

We were able to fly through our morning group time and worksheets and spent a little time talking about the Creation story and practicing our Bible verse. I am proud of how well they are doing with the verse and was pleasantly surprised thrilled later in the afternoon when K randomly came to me and recited the verse on his own. He is doing better with school than I expected but I've come to grips with the fact that he won't be the eager to please and ready to learn student that B has been. K never lets on that hes paying attention or learning the information you are teaching him, yet when you least expect it he demonstrates that hes been learning the whole time. 

Our calendar from Amazon.com that we update every morning (and sometimes throughout the day if the weather changes.) 

After our Bible time we read The Cat and the Hat Knows A Lot About That: All About Our Solar System. The kids like the Cat in the Hat series and the book is full of great information about space, the planets, the sun and moon etc.  The book reads in rhyme the way all of the other other Cat books do so its fun to read and works well in holding everyone's attention.

For lunch the kids ate Pizza Planets (aka pizza lunchables.) I'm not sure how much they really payed attention to my instructions to decorate their plants but they enjoyed devouring them!

After some play time and a few errands we watched The Magic School Bus Gains Weight on Netflix. During this episode the kids visit the Moon and other planets to learn about gravity. We then watched the Peg + Cat episode where they go to the moon and have to rebuild the rocket with patterns and numbers. I LOVE Peg + Cat and the kids like it a lot too - especially B. The story lines are interesting and unique, the characters and scenes aren't too flashy or animated and each episode is jam packed with math elements. Sorting, counting, shapes, patterns, addition, etc.  I am thrilled to know that Netflix has the first season and that we can pull from there for math learning!