ECC 2nd Edition: Week 2 Day 5

Well, it took most of the day, but we did the day!

We actually started by baking the cake first thing this morning. I knew it would need to cool and we wouldn't get to frost it until later.

Then we did Bible, the vocabulary words, and the Geography lesson. That took us until 9:45. We took a short break and then did Spelling and Math, and just had time to squeeze in reading before lunch. I am very proud of Pooh: he finally got his +1 math facts sheet in under 2 minutes! We all said a cheer for him after that.

After lunch we started frosting the cake. Frosting cakes has never been my forte and no one ever taught me how. I learned you should freeze your cake before frosting, and then expect to do a thin crumb layer.

After that, I did Math with rabbit. It was an investigation, so it didn't take too long. And I looked over her Progeny Press guide answers.

A trip to the libraries to pick up book basket books and a run to the grocery store to get more frosting to finish the cake concluded the afternoon. Oh, but we needed to finish the cake, so we did and made dinner at the same time. (Of course dinner got messed up, but what do you expect when you're multitasking?) I outlined the countries and let the kids fill them in. I found blue frosting at the grocery store and made the green frosting with white frosting and green food coloring. I had some cake decorating tips, so I cut a small corner off a ziploc bag and put the tip in and then put frosting in the bag. It actually worked pretty well.

Our World cake up close.

The kids and their World cake.

ECC 2nd Edition: Week 2 Day 4

Well, the day started out well enough. We actually started on time! We did Bible, then Spelling, Writing, Reading, Math. I was able to keep us pretty much on track. After math we did Geography and Science. I didn't do the Geography activity. If our church and grocery store were just around the corner, that would be one thing. But, they are too far away to try to draw a map with symbols that would be big enough to drive a toy car on. Maybe I'll try it another day, but today was not that day.

Sigh. I lost it today. I just got tired of being interrupted in the middle of reading a science page. I'm trying to process the information too, and to be interrupted just throws me for a loop. I guess my kids forget they need to use manners at home as well as out and about. Well, to make up for it we did the project. We didn't use grass. Our yard has enough trouble as it is without digging up a section of grass (we have HOA rules and city code stuff to worry about). So, we had an ivy plant that was sitting in water that has lots of roots, so we put that in our jar. Our jar is very large - it is one of those plastic containers of Animal Crackers you can get at Sam's Club. Here is a picture:

By this afternoon there was already lots of condensation and huge drops all over the plant. We took off the lid and the kids could see all the drops on the lid, even though it never got wet in the planting process. I may need to take the lid off the jar for a couple of hours to allow for some evaporation and a little less moisture. We'll see if our ivy grows any.

After lunch I did math with Rabbit. That actually went really well, I had my husband talk to her about irrational numbers last Friday, and she read through the chapter again. She did really well with the problem set, too.

I went over her writing and her Progeny Press guide. She's still having a little trouble identifying prepositional phrases. I know that will come with time, though. Then Rabbit read through her science. We'll tackle that experiment some other day. 

Well, that was our day. Always a chance to start over on another day.

ECC 2nd Edition: Week 2, Day 2 & 3

Feeling like we're just keeping our heads above water. It's okay, but I am exhausted and glad it is Friday.

The good...

Well, we did a full week of doing Bible, Geography and Science first. Things still seem to take too long. So, I talked to the kids about it, and we're going to rearrange our days next week. I really need to figure out a good system for us.

Rabbit has kept up with her English and Writing, though she still needs a lot of guidance. I keep telling myself, even college students have professors that lecture them.

We did the art project! Yay for us. Actually, I had folded the paper and outlined a person, so all they had to do was cut and color. I let them use paints or whatever they wanted to color them. Pooh just used orange paint and kind of made outlines. Tigger painted each ones' body and used markers to draw their faces. Rabbit used crayons and wrote what country she was trying to represent on each one. I hung them up on the wall around our John 3:16 poster:

The bad...

We didn't get Apologia Physical Science done yesterday or today. There is an experiment, and it is a 1/2 hour experiment on top of the reading. I'm thinking we will try tomorrow - a Saturday may help us.

We hit irrational numbers in Saxon 8/7 today. Those are hard. I'm going to ask the hubby to try to explain them to Rabbit since he has done more math than I have (I only went to Calculus II and Matrix Algebra, he's done Differential Equations and such). We didn't even do any practice problems or the problem set. I don't think she understood and I didn't want to do any problems until I'm sure she understands. That's going to be a challenge. If my husband can't explain it to her, we'll try pulling out the DIVE CD and watch it.

We missed a day on handwriting this week. Will probably have the boys do a page tomorrow so everything will line up.

The ugly...

Attitude. Attitude. Attitude. Pooh screams, yells, and cries when he can't remember. Most days spelling has at least one screaming fit, and often doing his math drill, too. Rabbit has cried almost every day in math. Sigh. I didn't want to learn patience this way. I want them to know I'll help. I don't want them to get upset. I'm not sure how to make that happen.

ECC 2nd Edition: Week 2 Day 1

Okay, so we're on a roll! Another day completed. Well, almost. The boys didn't do their handwriting or book basket. I may have to do a "catch-up" day.

So, I really want to like doing Bible, Geography, and Science first, but it is hard to get done in the specified times, at least right now it is. I know it is hard to pull the kids back together later, especially Rabbit as she might be working on something. But, doing Geography and Science right before lunch might motivate the kids to listen and stay on task instead of veering off onto tangents.

We did manage to get Spelling, English, reading, and Math done, but not until 12:20. And Rabbit got her independent work done, even scoring an 85% on her first English test in Applications of Grammar (go Rabbit!). Pooh decided to try to do math on his own. He worked for about 45 minutes, and did get several problems done, maybe 2/3rds, and then he came and asked me to help him stay on task. I was very proud of him for doing that.

I read the next chapter in Kingdom Tales today. It made me choke up, but we really liked the story, and I think the kids got the point.

In Math we learned about the Pythagorean Theorem today. I thought it was neat how they explained it. I either don't remember that, or it was never explained that way to me. We will probably finish the practice set tomorrow.

Then we did science. We had an experiment. Since Rabbit is so afraid of fire, I did the experiment and let her record it and write down the observations for it. I thought it was pretty cool. Here are the videos that go along with Experiment 2.3:

Normally I would have made her do the experiment, but she is so afraid of fire, that I thought this was best. Oh, I highly recommend using the largest jar you can find for this experiment - I think it is safer. The bottle we mixed the yeast and hydrogen peroxide in was just a .7L water bottle.

ECC 2nd Edition: Day 5

Well, this day did not really go as planned, but it's fine. I was hoping we would get in a "practice day" for our light days. We need to be done by 11:00 with most things so we can eat lunch and get to P.E. class by 12:00. Did not happen today.

We did Bible first, which didn't take too long. But, with vocabulary and an activity this day, that took way longer. I helped the boys map their room. Rabbit mapped a bathroom. I didn't have any paper large enough to do 1" = 1' map scale, so we used graph paper and had one square on the graph paper equal 1 foot. (Oh the irony! Rabbit did scales and scale factors in Math yesterday and today!)

Next we did spelling, which still takes longer than I like. Then math with the boys. Not sure all that Rabbit was working on.

I went ahead and did the next chapter in Kingdom Tales during lunch. Afterward, I did handwriting with the boys. (I'll be glad when that is done!) Then today I decided they could read to themselves for 10 minutes rather than read with me, so I could work with Rabbit.

Rabbit was struggling with the questions in the Progeny Press guide, so we did some of them together. Then we did Math - finishing day 125 (lesson 97 in the book). After that, we did a Physical Science lesson, even though it is the light day, and normally we wouldn't do one. I want to get ahead as much as possible. We didn't finish until 3:45, because of an experiment.

Not bad, but really looking forward to truly light days.

ECC 2nd Edition: Day 4

Woo-hoo! We are on a roll - another whole day completed. Not without its challenges, but completed.

Rabbit would like us to do Spelling after Bible. Pooh wants Geography and Science. Tigger doesn't care. Sigh. So, I thought we'd try the "all together" subjects - Bible, Geography, and Science - first, and then the rest. Today was a good day to try because there was no English. (My thought is to get the together stuff done first, so I don't have to pull students back together. But, since I'm always working with at least one of them, it isn't that hard to get the other two, so this could go either way.)

Bible was good - reading God Speaks Numanggang again. We talked a little about how Papau New Guinea was pretty small compared to the U.S. but had so many languages! I'm sure the native Indian tribes also each have languages, but I don't think we have 800! Rabbit was glad we read the book again. Tigger and Pooh kind of checked out a little. That's okay. 

For Geography, we read our pages and then labeled the map as the T.M. directed. That wasn't too bad. I helped Pooh quite a bit as he can't write that small. Tigger just needed a little help for a couple of things. Rabbit just needed to capitalize and fix a spelling. Good thing she did it in pencil. 

Science took a little longer, but partly because we went over the vocabulary from the previous lesson (I made a page in Word). Then we went over today's lesson's vocabulary. Again, I had a vocabulary page printed out. (Another mom on the MFW Message Board did the first 7 weeks and shared it with me. Thanks Andrea!) That made it a little easier as we went through the lessons. We didn't do the worm niche. We've done that three times now in different forms. The kids know what will happen. 

A quick snack break, and then we tackled Spelling (all), Writing Strands (with the boys), Reading (boys), and Math (boys). Rabbit did The Easy Spanish with the boys during Writing Strands time. I shortened that time to 10 minute (instead of 15) because we were already behind. During Math I sat with Pooh again just to keep him on task. Rabbit worked on various things, including her Module 1 test from Apologia Physical Science. She got an 87% on her first test. I told her that wasn't bad for the first test of the year.

I decided to read the first chapter of Kingdom Tales today at lunch. I previewed it yesterday (as recommended in the T.M), and I didn't think it was that intense. Maybe it is because my kids are older (the boys are 9, Rabbit is 13), but they enjoyed it. I did warn the kids before I read it that there may be some scary or sad things, but it was just pretend story. After we read it and answered the questions, Pooh said, "Oh! I get it! The 'Enchanter' is suppose to be Satan." Yep!

After lunch the boys did handwriting and book basket. I went over the letter formation and guided Pooh. Then Rabbit and I did Math. This was lesson 98 (Day 125 in the Lesson Plans). You know, it would have helped my daughter to split this lesson over 2 or 3 lessons. (There were tears.) But, we managed the explanation and the practice set. We were pretty close to an hour at that point, so we'll do the problem set tomorrow. Then I went over her Progeny Press guide answers with her and her Essentials in Writing lesson. 

Pooh had a bad day today. He whined, fussed, or cried over almost every single subject or lesson today. It seemed to be worse when I was helping, but he needed my help then. 

We got done by 2:45 with everything, so that's not a bad day for us.

ECC 2nd Edition: Day 3 Completed!

Well, almost completed - we forgot to do the backyard habitat stuff from POE. Oh well. We're done. Today went like this. . . . 

We did Bible first, which today was reading from God Speaks Numanggang. I liked the story. It was a good explanation of Bible translation missions. Amazing facts and figures to encourage us to help Bible translation in some way.

Then we did Geography. That didn't take very long. We talked about how to look things up using the index in the Intermediate Atlas, and Tigger said, "This is just like Battleship." Yep! He's got it.

After that was Spelling, English, Writing, and Math with the boys. We kept on task today, even with a quick snack break (and I mean quick!). We did the first lesson in the Writing Strands 3 book. They don't have much "old writing" to go back and fix, so we're going to skip that part.

The boys finished yesterday's math lesson and did today's math lesson. So glad they caught back up. I did have to sit with Rabbit and keep him on task, solving the problems. But it worked. The boy had a little free time while I worked with Rabbit on her English assignment from Applications of Grammar. Today was adverbs. She was starting to get it. Those lessons are NOT easy. It is frustrating, a little, to have to learn all those words and their definitions and identifying them, when we just want to use them. I know it will help in the long run, but even I have a hard time with those lessons and have to have the answer key right there as we work through them.

Then we did lunch and our nature walk. We have a park nearby that has a stream with bridges over it. So, we went to the closest bridge and watched the ducks. I told the kids that they should appreciate the walk, because I doubted we would be able to do too many nature walks this year. I snapped a few pictures:

The flowers in someone's front yard on our way to the stream.

The ducks enjoying the higher water level due to recent rains.

The other side of the bridge. We saw lots of dragonflies, too.

They all did a sketch. Rabbit sketched the stream, and then added some children playing nearby. Tigger sketched a duck and identified the parts on his drawing. Pooh pulled up one of the reeds and sketched it - which basically meant two lines coming to a point, LOL!

When we got back, I did Math with Rabbit. We finished lesson 97 in the Saxon 8/7 math book (not sure what day that is in the lesson plans). Then she studied for her Physical Science test coming up. Then I looked over her Progeny Press guide answers. She's doing a pretty good job with those. 

Not a bad day. It feels good to have completed the whole thing. 

ECC 2nd Edition: Day 2 Continued

Today has gone pretty well. We started with a school-huddle-time. I went over what the plans were for today. And then we talked about schedule options. Some of the kids want to do Bible, Geography, and Science first. Others are willing to do Bible, then the 3 R's, and then Geography and Science. I'm still fleshing out schedules some. My plan tomorrow is to do a full day of ECC and the 3 R's. We'll see how that goes. 

We also talked about Bible verse dictation. My problem is I have 3 kids, 2 of whom are dyslexic. Reading through the verse and finding the words that each of them needs to work on before doing the dictation would take a lot of time. Or, if I made sheets that had blanks for the words I know they know how to spell, and then have the rest of the words traceable, that would take a lot of time, too, for me. So, I have decided (gasp! I'm not going to do it exactly as written!) that we will have 2 days of copywork. The kids get dictation in All About Spelling, so I'm not worried about missing dictation. I will expect perfect copywork (neat handwriting, and no spelling or punctuation mistakes), but it will be something they can do on their own and won't take me way longer than it should. 

I have, in the past, made sheets for Pooh with blanks for the words he does know, and then he traced over the words he did know for the verse dictation, but that is just too much work. Copywork is fine. And, if he knows it has to be neat and no mistakes, it will force him to really look at what he is copying and hopefully improve some things naturally that way.

As for our day... We did spelling (with the other two doing math drill and AWANA), English (with Rabbit doing Spanish with the other boy), Reading (and typing), and then math. While the boys did math after I had gone over it with them, I worked with Rabbit on her English lesson. You know, I don't like it when words can be used more than one way (what is it with those adjective pronouns? Really!). When the hour of math time was up, Pooh came crying because he hadn't gotten that far on working the problems. So, I sat with him and made him really focus on his problems so he at least got as far as Tigger. I used to have to do that with Rabbit - sit right next to her and say (and often write as she answered), "Okay, what is 1 plus 4? Good. Now, 7 plus 5? So, where do I write the 2 and where do I write the 1?" I think I'm going to have to do that with Pooh to keep him focused. It would be impossible to eliminate all distractions. I think eventually he will improve, just like Rabbit.

I'm having Pooh also do a math drill worksheet for part of math drill. Right now he is working on just +1 math facts. I went to the Math-U-See website and printed out a +1 sheet with 25 problems, and I also gave him a cheat-sheet with the +1 facts on it. I told him his goal is to get it done in 2 minutes or less using the cheat-sheet as little as possible. The first time he did it it was 2:27. The second time 2:16. Once he gets down to two minutes, I'll do a +2 worksheet. Then, after he gets that down to 2 minutes, I'll do a +1 and +2 worksheet. I know Calculadders does something similar, but we tried those before and that didn't go well. I didn't give him a cheat-sheet back then, so I may try those again, with cheat-sheets. 

Rabbit had the Module 1 study guide to work through in Apologia Physical Science. I guided her through the math problems. I think I'm going to let her study one more day before she takes the first test. Then we did math (Saxon 8/7 Lesson 97). She got upset with it, but the thing was she was getting the point. This happens all the time. She does the math and gets the answer in her head, but she doesn't get why she got the right answer. Sigh. We worked through it and got it done. (We couldn't go outside and measure shadows because it wasn't sunny. She was actually glad it wasn't sunny for once :) .)

Rabbit had her Pre-pointe class and another Ballet 3 class tonight. It makes our Thursday's hectic with small group and dropping her off and picking her up. But, she is enjoying the dance classes, so we'll let her continue that. Everything I've read about going on pointe in ballet says the dancer should be in at least 3 hours of classes a week, so I'm good with her classes. Plus, we add Worship Dance in September. It's all good.

ECC 2nd Edition: Day 2

So, I promised the kids we would just do Bible, Geography, and Science, and then whatever else we could fit in our 4 hours for the day, and we'd try my new schedule out on Friday. (Tomorrow we'll get spelling, English, Math, Math Drill, AWANA, Spanish, Typing, Reading, etc.)

We started with Bible, which was a reading about the Garden of Eden in POE. That was good, and I had the kids narrate. Actually, I asked them if they had learned anything new and what it was they learned. That went well, and didn't take very long.

Next we did geography. I read the pages from the Maps and Globes book. Then, we had an old blow-up globe from National Geographic Kids that had a hole in it. So, instead of drawing on oranges, we tried laying that flat. Even after cutting it up, we couldn't. We decided that if we had completely cut each section, we could have laid them flat, but it would be a hard map to follow. Here's a picture of our cut-up globe:

Science was pretty light today, reading out of Living World Encyclopedia. Then I had the kids each make a science page. That turned into a bit of a challenge having three kids share one book. But, it was fine.

After science we did our John 3:16 picture. I have a huge stack of old National Geographic magazines that we got our pictures from. It took quite a bit of time to cut out pictures and glue them, but we got a really nice result:

 I hung it on the wall over our world map as a reminder that everyone in the world needs Jesus.

By this time, it was 10:00, so I let the kids take a snack break. Rabbit went off to do her work, while Tigger and Pooh finished off math from yesterday and did their handwriting. (I'm not making Rabbit do handwriting review, as her handwriting is good.) I also let them read to themselves to finish off the day.

I do feel like today was MUCH lighter, and we really could have done a full school day, but I had already promised the kids yesterday that we would only do part of a day. We still did 4 hours, as our state requires, and Rabbit usually gets in 5 or 6 hours, by the time we do Math and Science (which we will hit this afternoon).

Oh, and I feel VERY blessed. I am getting to purchase Saxon Algebra 1 (3rd edition), Saxon Algebra 2 (2nd edition), and Jacobs Geometry (2nd edition) from a homeschool mom that has graduated all her kids. I feel like as long as they aren't 1st edition, they'll be fine and the price is so good! I'll order the MFW lesson plans for Algebra 1, since the editions are the same. I'll need to find out if the lesson plans MFW has will work for Algebra 2 2nd Edition and Jacob's Geometry 2nd Edition (they show 3rd edition on the web site), or if it would be possible to get old lesson plans from them.  I'm excited about this because it will save me some real money long term. $55 for all 3! The Saxon sets include everything but the videos, which I'm okay with because we didn't like the DIVE CDs. Rabbit prefers me to be her teacher in Math. I don't know for sure what the Jacob's Geometry has, so I may still need to find a teacher's guide and test bank.

[Editing to add: I found out that the Algebra 2 2nd edition has the same content as the Algebra 2 3rd edition. Woo-hoo! I did find out that there were some significant changes between Jacobs Geometry 2nd edition and 3rd edition, so I'm still deciding on what to do about that one.]

ECC 2nd Edition: Day 1 Continued

Okay, hmmm, I think the schedule is going to be hard to figure out. I think the main thing is going to be starting earlier. Here goes...

We started with spelling - All About Spelling. I spend 15 minutes per kid. But, it takes my kids about 5 minutes to transition from their independent activity to spelling. So I really need to budget closer to 55 minutes for spelling. And that's okay, now that I know that. So while one was working on spelling with me, the other two were doing Math Drill and studying AWANA verses.

Next was English with the boys. So, I worked with Tigger first while Pooh did The Easy Spanish with Rabbit. My thought is he needs to understand what some Spanish words mean in English before he will be successful with Rosetta Stone. When we switched, Tigger wanted to do The Easy Spanish with Rabbit instead of Rosetta Stone because Pooh had, so I let him. Tigger does pretty well with Rosetta Stone, it just isn't his favorite. My other option is to get out my old Power Glide and let them try to do that independently. Not sure on that yet. I had originally scheduled 15 minutes each, but think I can scale that back to 10 minutes each.

After that was time for the boys to read to me. So, while one read to me the other did Typing Instructor on the computer. Pooh was a little rusty and skipping words, but I think he'll be back into it soon.

Next the boys did Math. It was a review lesson from the textbook, so no new teaching from me. I got them started, and then worked with Rabbit on her English assignment. That one was even a challenge for me. I certainly had a hard time figuring out which pronouns were being used as possessive adjectives vs. regular pronouns. I think it would have been helpful to gradually build and give a better explanation of a possessive adjective. 

While the boys continued their math work, Rabbit and I did her Physical Science experiment 1.3. After about 30 minutes of discussion Rabbit finally got the point of what "concentration" meant - it helped her to think of it as percents. We did film the experiment. That's always fun. :) The experiment had two stages. The first was to dissolve a Tums tablet in 3 different amounts of vinegar. That's this video:

Then the next part was to dissolve a Tums tablet in 3 different concentrations of vinegar. That is this video:

After reading the text in the textbook, I got the feeling we should have waited until the Tums tablets dissolved completely, but that seemed like it would have taken a really long time.

That all took until about 12:30. So we had lunch and then I did Math with Rabbit. We didn't get too far in the lesson, but she got her answers right on the problems we did do.

I think tomorrow we'll just do the Bible, Geography, and Science from ECC, and then Math and the handwriting practice. See how long that takes. Then the next day do the other things. Just kind of ease into it, you know? I may switch and do Bible, Spelling, English, Reading and Math first, and then the Geography and Science. We did that last year (substituting History for Geography), so I'm game for trying it. Just means I have to rework the schedule.

(Oh, and as I learn about this blog thing, I will probably try to make the videos just a tad smaller for streaming. Learn something new every day, ya know?)

ECC 2nd Edition: Day 1

Whew! Things are taking a lot longer with 3 doing them.

First, it didn't help that we didn't start on time. Will work on remedying that. So, we start with Bible, which was to read from Window on the World. Well, the kids (with their new Bibles) wanted to look up and read all the passages referenced in the introduction. And then my kids are picky about word choices ("Why did they say 'might' in that sentence? Jesus saves everyone who believes."). So that took longer. But, on a good note, they have memorized John 3:16 for AWANA so that's a no-brainer.

Then we did all the Geography activities. Reading from Maps and Globes was fine. But, then filling out the Passport Application - my-oh-my! I had to explain about filling out forms in print instead of cursive. Then, with two dyslexics, I had to spell everything and remind them of birthdays and such. And of course, writing the address on the front of the envelope takes more time. Yes, it is very tempting to do it all myself, but I know it is better for the kids if I let them do it. So I did, and so it took WAY longer than the 20 minutes allotted for Geography.

Next we worked on Science. Reading from Properties of Ecosystems (to be referred to as POE from now on) was fine. Though we had to go over and over all the new vocabulary words. I was tempted to make a vocabulary sheet before we started with all the new words from today. It was a lot to remember. I think I might do that for them as a reference. Then we did the Ecozones activity. Can I just say out loud that there needs to be an answer key for this one? Reading the descriptions of the ecozones in the book was slightly confusing. And then, because the print is rather fine on that green background for these old eyes, I misread some of the boundaries of the ecozones. It's fine. It's just general information for the kids to know, but it would help this type-A person to know whether or not we got the maps right. I definitely would skip this for a 3rd grader and below.

Tigger thought coloring the areas on the map was fun. Oh, and having the placemat maps from Explorers to 1850 or 1850 to Modern Times was handy for the kids to copy ocean names and such onto their maps. Our wall map is in a different area from the table where they were working, so I grabbed those and they used them to copy from. I think those would be a good addition to ECC.

I sent Rabbit off to do her school work while Tigger and Pooh did cursive practice and math. Poor Pooh. He really struggled. I showed him how to do the letters on the whiteboard, and then on his paper. I had him do only 4 copies. We still had some tears. I made sheets in StartWrite software, and they have the arrows to show how to form the letters. I also have them do words with the letters we've covered (or just letter combinations) to work on connections - especially letters like b that have a "tow-truck" (to use Handwriting Without Tears terminology). 

Take a week off of math and my boys almost forget how to add and subtract. Sigh. I ended up having to write the problems on my whiteboard and then have them tell me what step to do next. But, we got it done eventually. 

After lunch I worked with Rabbit on her math. She finished Test 18 in Saxon 8/7 today. We'll keep on working 8/7 until we finish it and then start either Algebra 1/2 or Algebra 1. I'm thinking Algebra 1, which will give her more time before 9th grade starts.

So, tomorrow we will do what we didn't get to today: English, Reading, Spelling, Math and Wee Sing. I'll see how that goes before we add any of the ECC stuff. It may be that doing those things first will work better for us than doing Bible, Geography, and Science first. I also need to check the work Rabbit completed today.

Tonight I will go by the  library to pick up our one book that has come in.

I almost forgot to take first day of school pictures:

The boy on the left in the back is Tigger. The boy on the right in the red shirt is Pooh. The girl is Rabbit. And those nicknames fit their personalities. The dog is Chloe - and yes that is her real name. We call her Klo for short.