School Day 3

I need to think of some more clever titles, I think. ;)Below is what I posted on facebook today about Alan's school day. So now I'm all caught up, and you are too! Tomorrow I will post right onto here about what our Friday school day will be like! Now I have to go make spaghetti because a certain 5 year old is requesting it for dinner! :)
Today for Alan's home school, we added a number "4" to his calendar and he wanted a special mark on it like on the first two days, so we used the "sunny day" magnet to note that today was sunny, and I said that every day we have a sunny day all year, he can move that magnet to the next day. We also talked about how there are 12 months in a year, and 30-31 days in a month (except Feb), and how there are about 4 weeks per month. Next we sang through the alphabet twice. He's getting the hang of it more with a visual, but still messing up a few letters (like H and I and J). I want to get him a bit more confident with the visual first, then test his memory without it in the coming weeks. We also finished the powerpoint I made him starting with letter M on phonics of letters and pictures that start with each letter. He's more getting the hang of listening to the sound at the beginning of the word to determine if it goes with a certain letter. I then had him trace numbers 1-10 in his workbook and had him write them on his own. After he traced and then I traced one with him (both of us holding the pencil), he did pretty well at the numbers he wrote on his own. Lastly, he did a trace the dots picture 1-10 of a dinosaur in his workbook so that I could segue into some "current events", an article I found this morning about dinosaur bones that were discovered, because Alan is pretty into paleontology stuff right now.
Article:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/09/04/dinosaur-skeleton-discovered/15031803/?csp=fbfanpage