Introducing the abacus and Torah study

As you can see, E didn't even bother to get dressed today - one of the benefits of homeschool. ;)

Today, we started with handwriting. I decided not to do one of the lessons because it involved music. I am just going to put the CD in the car and they'll learn it there. We moved right along to building letter with our wooden manipulatives. E did the entire alphabet!

We also reviewed they types of lines we need to make our letters - vertical, horizontal, and diagonal.

Next we moved on to math. We had quite a few interruptions from T & R, but we finally got it done! We started with reviewing our book and song.

Then we introduced 7, and E had no trouble showing me with his tally sticks. It took him a minute to understand how to do it with the colored tiles, but he is certainly a quick learner!

Our new math manipulative for today was the abacus. I thought he might be confused by how it worked - WRONG. It took him exactly one example to understand how to show 1-7 (and probably 8-10, but we didn't practice those) and what it means when I say "clear your abacus."

After we finished math, we joined T on the couch and began our introduction to the Torah. I purchased the JPS Illustrated Children's Bible. Even though it's not quite the time of year for us to be discussing creation, we decided to just start at the beginning.