Israel's birthday

 Last week was Israeli Independence Day.  First, however, M wanted to continue the study of flowers.  He wanted to draw the flower model with markers.  First, I drew it for him on the dry-erase board, and labeled all the parts, so he could read the words.

Then, he got to work copying the picture.

I think his is better, personally.....

On Tuesday, for the math lesson, I prepared a flower skeleton, and M prepared the numbered petals, which could then be plucked off the flower to model subtraction:

To celebrate Israel, we played a matching game with a map of Israel.  Both M and R had fun with this: