Thursday already?!

Well, after the excitement of Pie Day everything is all downhill.

We've had a busy couple of days. Sam's follow-up IEP meeting for speech therapy was yesterday, along with the migraine from hell. So I don't remember much about what we did, but I know we did something.

Today though, we've been busy working. Although it hasn't felt like that too much. So far I've read to all of the kids. We read another chapter of Story of the World, talked about and looked up pictures of cave paintings, painted our very own cave paintings. We've discussed why people would live in villages instead of always been nomads. HArry and I tried to answer the question, "what if we were the ones making the cave paintings in the books?" That would have been easier if I believed in reincarnation.

Harry did some math, but it took a long time since it required him to write the numbers 1-100. No small feat when you are six.

We did a lesson on aunts and uncles from First Language Lessons.

We took an Annika Walk. I really think we need to do that every day. Today we brought a little box with us too collect things that we saw. We ended up with a bunch of leaves and sticks. When we got home, we got out our nature notebooks and pasted the leaves into it. Then we made lines to the different parts of the leaves. For instance, the big line up the middle is called the "midrib." Who knew?

And that was before lunch. While we were doing something earlier, Annika grabbed the bag of beans for 15 bean soup and put some into a cup with water. We decided that we would see which one opened up first, so we got our notebooks out and glued dry beans into it. Then we predicted which we thought would open first and last. We'll keep checking on them and put the results in our chart.

This afternoon we'll talk some more about shearing sheep and A New Coat for Anna and be done with the schooling portion of the day! I love this.