Friday Fun Night

So I found those math books. NOT my fault- the student couldn't find them in her overstuffed desk. (Daddy did put them "away", along with teacher books that didn't belong in there.) Things are more organized now. This morning Grace took her LLATL assessment, finished reading Misty of Chincoteague and began a "Book-Sell." (You know, like on Reading Rainbow....) Tuesday she'll practice it with her sister the aspiring film-maker/videographer/director.

We were going to go to the Da Vinci exhibit yesterday but we had to post- pone and didn't end up getting anything really done. It was a good day off and play date though. Actually, we did start off the day with math, and ended it with math, too, after we bought some base 10 blocks to help with Singapore Math's style of teaching triple-digit subtraction. The ones we had were homemade with craft sticks and beans and we didn't have nearly enough to do problems like 764- 328.

This afternoon we're watching an Eyewitness video about cats before starting math and sewing. Tonight the girls are especially excited to scrapbook! We're hosting a crop-night and making brownies for it. Should be fun. Not sure how Martin is feeling about it.....he'll like the brownies. Maybe he'll want to watch a movie with the baby if he doesn't want to scrapbook. Hmm.

Wacky Wednesday

Today was a bit wacky. We've misplaced a mathbook. The thing is I'm pretty sure it's my fault- I was correcting it yesterday.....But then we got a minivan and I forgot everything I was doing! I was so excited. So today we went to the Parent Partnership Program and enjoyed everything there (really!), stopped at DQ for an unhealthy quick bite we packed to the park, went home and couldn't find the math so we focused on library books and video. Now we're ending the day with read aloud (Misty of Chincoteague) and planning our field trip to see a Da Vinci exhibit. I'll look for that book after the kids go to bed. Where could it be?? How could I lose a textbook and a workbook?? Maybe daddy helped "clean up". Well maybe we'll focus on hands on math tomorrow morning. We can finish LLATL for the week and then do some cutting/measuring of fabric squares to finally get those blankies started. Who loses a math book from one day to the next. ???? Maybe my friend was right today when she said I was trying to do too much.

Monday at home

We took a home day- Baby is sick and that's totally no fun. Poor wittle guy. The girls were ready to leave at 8:30 though for the parent partnership program. They love it. It's a good thing to be a part of- it's just juggling baby that I think I'm dealing with.

So- girls worked on Language Arts: screenwriting, LLATL and then Grace worked on her My New Baby and Me record book (published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art). At 11:00 they switched to Unit Study, and chose to focus on Oregon Trail. We got some great materials at the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center (http://www.blm.gov/or/oregontrail/) so they're using those resources to recreate a wagon right now. Grace is building it. Elli is filling it with miniatures she had and is making out of sculpey and things. We have a reproduction supply list- Grace is going to weed through the things Elli made and decide which ones to keep because they aren't all going to fit. (This was a planned part of the project.) They have age appropriate workbooks, too, but today was mostly about the wagon.

After lunch I realized Elli was actually sick with a cold, too, so I wanted her to get some rest. Grace was dying to sew something- she keeps bugging me about it. (Remember the other day when I said we would make little cowboy blankies? So didn't happen. I think we ended up cleaning and organizing instead but we were so overwhelmed with clutter in the craft room/office.)

So I got out the flannel and started one of the small projects that's been sitting here half done. We made some baby "drool bibs" and a "burpee cloth" out of an old towel and Winnie the Pooh flannel. It had the pattern printed on it so it was pretty easy. I made an extra bib pattern to have on hand. Grace turned out and top stitched the bibs and then made the burpee cloth all by herself! (Okay, I helped a few spots, taught her how to use the seam ripper, but basically I just supervised.)

About 3 I remembered about her math workbook and suggested she work on that. She didn't do very much because we were all tired and ready for a nap by that point. But she did use the tape measure and measured a bunch of things, comparing them and stuff. There was an hour of math with the workbook and the measuring combined....We'll catch up Tuesday. She's ahead in LLATL so she can start out the day with math instead. Poor Elli would have been miserable at school. She needed chicken soup and boxes of tissues and a warm blankie instead.