Well, colds have overtaken the household again. In spite of stuffy noses and coughing, we started up again today - at least the days in the TM line up with the days of the week again.
We started with working on Rabbit's next Discovery in her TNT book. That took quite a while. Then, we did our cross-crawls and ECC Bible time. Rabbit tried very hard to copy the character quality out of the book very neatly. I told her I was very proud of the way she wrote. We did our ear-eights and then moved on to Geography. We read our "facts" pages about Kenya, and then played the geography game with our Africa game board. We played the old version. Rabbit said, "You only want to play it so you can win." Turns out we tied - we each missed one.
We were behind at this point, so we did lunges and headed for the kitchen for our snack. I shifted the laundry from the washer to the dryer, and we did Spanish. I got out our Spanish/English Dictionary so I could understand the story they were telling better. Rabbit thought it was funny that I narrated the story back to her in English.
Science was suppose to be a Nature Walk, and study of grass roots. Well, with wind gusts hitting 80 mph today, that was out of the question. So we talked about what roots do, and how they hold soil, and how that stops erosion. That was going to have to do for today.
Then, I had Rabbit work on her spelling list, and use some Wrap-Ups while I did preschool with the boys. First we worked on their Cubbies lesson. Part of the lesson was to draw Luv E. Lamb. It is so interesting to watch the two of them try to draw it. The next part had them coloring the letters of a word. Tigger finished up quick, but it took Pooh a bit longer. But, Pooh was a little more precise with his coloring. We worked on their verse for a couple of minutes. Then, we got caught up with the calendar, since we hadn't filled anything in since last Friday. We went over the days of the week, and months of the year, too. Then I had them say their phone number (they still got it) and spell their names. Tigger can do his first name without looking, but needs to look for his last name. Pooh cannot spell either, and doesn't even know all the letter names for his name. I need to work more on teaching them their letters.
After that, it was time for writing-eights with Rabbit. We worked on those. Then we did English. The assignment was about using quotation marks. I didn't do the dictation for it, yet. Then we had a "writing without curriculum" assignment. She wrote 3 great sentences, remembering to capitalize the first letter, and use a period at the end of each sentence. Plus, she used a comma in the right place in one of the sentences! Whoo-hoo, that is a big gain. I won't tell you her spelling, though. Then she did book basket. You really have to like a curriculum when your daughter brings you a book from the book basket, puts it on the counter and says, "Mom, you should read this book. It is really good!"
We took a long lunch break, and then did math and reading. We worked on skip counting by 4's and did the first page for this lesson. Then, we finished the last story in our Abeka book 2.
What a good day. I'm glad we pushed through sniffles, coughs, and sore throats and got it done.
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