November started off with my favorite animal—the turtle! We studied the anatomy of a turtle, and made our own out of paper plates. We drew ribs on the inside of the carapace and guts on the inside of the plastron. One gross thing we learned about turtles is that, since their ribs aren’t flexible enough to pump air through their lungs, they use their mouth AND their anus to breathe! We will never look at our little Earlya the same again. 
The lesson we learned from the turtle was perseverance. Besides several Bible passages about perseverance, such as Phil. 3:13-14; Heb. 12:1; and Gal. 6:9, we also read the Little Engine that Could, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and two different versions of the Tortoise and the Hare fable. We video taped Huyler and Ardara presenting the puppet show of the Tortoise and the Hare for everyone to see. See our theatrical presentation in the next post, entitled "Puppet Show"
Our tactile learning exercise this week was forming the letter T out of twigs.
Also new this week was the Blend Ladder! Read about it in a following post entitled Blend Ladder. The blend ladder enabled us to easily sound out words so at the end of the week, we each got a book written entirely with the 6 letters we had learned so far. It was an edge-of-the-seat thriller! “Sam. Sam’s a man. Tam. Tam’s mat. Tam sat. A mast. Mast slants!”
By the end of the week, we had made our motto “I don’t quit, I persevere!” Huyler even recognized the word later in a Veggie Tales movie he had watched a hundred times before — Sumo of the Opera!
The lesson we learned from the turtle was perseverance. Besides several Bible passages about perseverance, such as Phil. 3:13-14; Heb. 12:1; and Gal. 6:9, we also read the Little Engine that Could, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and two different versions of the Tortoise and the Hare fable. We video taped Huyler and Ardara presenting the puppet show of the Tortoise and the Hare for everyone to see. See our theatrical presentation in the next post, entitled "Puppet Show"
Our tactile learning exercise this week was forming the letter T out of twigs.
Also new this week was the Blend Ladder! Read about it in a following post entitled Blend Ladder. The blend ladder enabled us to easily sound out words so at the end of the week, we each got a book written entirely with the 6 letters we had learned so far. It was an edge-of-the-seat thriller! “Sam. Sam’s a man. Tam. Tam’s mat. Tam sat. A mast. Mast slants!”
By the end of the week, we had made our motto “I don’t quit, I persevere!” Huyler even recognized the word later in a Veggie Tales movie he had watched a hundred times before — Sumo of the Opera!
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