Week 1, Day 3 in ECC

We liked today. Rabbit really liked the nature walk. We took an hour for that. I sketched a pine cone and Rabbit sketched a leaf. We are lucky enough to have a stream that goes through a near-by park. This summer we had seen ducks in the stream, but they were not there today. We saw water bugs and dragonflies, cattails and other grasses. It was a perfect morning for a nature walk. Pooh and Tigger nap after lunch, and we're more likely to have afternoon thunder storms, so I thought doing it in the morning was best. Here is a picture of the kids sitting on a bridge that goes over the stream.

After Rabbit struggled with her Primary Language Lesson yesterday, I made a fill-in-the-blank worksheet for her to do today. She did better with that than trying to do it orally. We'll see if Primary Language Lessons will work for us. Rabbit is very a very creative, artsy girl, and the book is kind of plain black-and-white. She balked when I first opened it yesterday.

Geography took us a mere 10 minutes at the most today. We had covered the same topic last year, so she pretty well knew it. I looked at tomorrow, and all the coloring and labeling may take us a bit longer. Setting 15 minutes for Bible time seems to be just right for them to color the John 3:16 pages and for me to read from Window on the World about that country. We even look on the map for the country. It's funny, because for some things, Rabbit is definitely a perfectionist, but not on her artsy things. I haven't quite figured that out yet.

Even math went quickly today. We moved on to lesson 29 in Beta, and she did the first 2 pages pretty quickly. She said, "This is easy." I said, "That's kind of nice after all that long subtraction, isn't it?" We also did addition math drill with flashcards today - she only missed 2, but really had to think about some of them. I explained to her that each week we would be doing something different in the math drill department. This week it's flashcards, next week math windows, the next Math-U-See online drill, and then math Wrap-Ups. Then we'll rotate back through again. I also explained that it will be only 10 minutes a day for math drill, so when she does the math windows next week, she'll just do as much as she can for 10 minutes.

I suppose that is the gist of our day. It's not in chronological order - more like favorite highlights order. I did have to remind her to have a good attitude about a couple of things, but nothing major. We're still trying to find our groove.