Benji-Bee

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APRIL 2 - APRIL 8

MONDAY: Outings -
        PARK - Played on the Jungle gym, observed ducks, gulls, and other local wild life, pointing out differences in male and female if possible (Ben already knew!),  identified pine cones (and had a pine cone fight).
        LIBRARY - Talked about proper library behavior.  Returned books, checked out more.  Daddy and Benji had reading time while Mom browsed.

TUESDAY:    
    Reading - Word Recognition: That, its, Mom, Dad, eat, can, not, see, cat, this, him, part, did.
    Language - Japanese - first 5 character: Ah, E, oo, Aye, O
    Art - Free Imagination Drawing - He was drawing Disney (Dumbo, castles, etc).
    Music - Classic Disney CD

WEDNESDAY: - REVIEW DAY!
    Reading - Word Recognition: That, its, Mom, Dad, eat, can, not, see, cat, this, him, part, did.
        StarFall short I puzzle (short a and o puzzle done last week sometime), with Dad and the TinMan.  
    Language - Japanese - first 5 character: Ah, E, oo, Aye, O
    Math - Placing counters 1-10, and ODD/EVEN review; Balance beam.
        Nature - Benji helped with filling up water bottles for water evaporation (on top of daily feeding help).

THURSDAY:
    Gym - Trampoline
    Music - Sara Hickman’s Toddler CD from Library.
    Art - Buki - “Kiddie Color Animals”

FRIDAY:
    Park - Play time and Fishing with Daddy.
    Reading - Lesson #24, Bob books #1-1 “Mat”  
    Art - Buki Animals Coloring X2 pages

SATURDAY:
    Easter egg hunt at the Park
        Language - Practice Writing of Japanese 5 Characters: A, I, U, E, O and Learning words that Start with them.  Asagao (Morning Glory), Inu (dog), Oni (demon), Ushi (Cow), Ebi (shrimp); Ari (ant); Uma (horse); Enpisu (pencil).
        Introduction - Ka, Ki, Ku, Ke, Ko
    Art - Introduction to Tracing with Stencils
    Math - Introduction of how to use the Push table (ie push 3-2 to reveal 1).
    Read - Bob Books: 1-1 “Mat” and 1-2 “Sam”    - Read Mat, Sam, and Zac the RAT to his Grandfather in the car, who came to take us to dinner (fastest I've ever seen him read those books, what a show off).
    Gym - Trampoline

SUNDAY:  EASTER!
    Gym - Park - Just to run around and burn energy, too cold to stay long.
    Read - Lesson #25

He seems to be enjoying most everything and about 1/3 of the time will initiate a "lesson" himself.