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.