Apples and Bananas

Clack is our little singer. She loves to sing "I like to eat, eat, eat, apples and bananas". The eat, eat, eat is crystal clear. We're lost in translation for the remainder of the verse.

Our imagination is powerful. Click doesn't watch TV Monday - Thursday, so there's lots of time for his creative juices to flow. Here are three things that stood out today:

1. He's reading a book about the planets. He was playing with a blue ball and the screw on portion of a mason jar. He puts the ball into the jar top and a mental light clicks on, "hey, this is Jupiter" then he looks at his solar system chart and says, "no, it's blue so it has to be Uranus" (which also has a ring).

2. During his free time I encouraged him to look through one the the resources we just received (history & science encyclopedias). He chose the Kingfisher Encyclopedia of World History. He finds a picture of a prehistoric rhino & finds the matching action figure in our learning box. The rhino, actually called a Uintatherium, has 6 horns. He was recently asking why his rhino had 6 horns and other rhinos don't. He found the answer today.

3. He made a fishing pole from a broom handle and shoe lace.

Today's Homeschool Schedule

Classical Music - This week's composer is Johannes Brahms.

Saxon Math 1 - Lesson 38, meeting book, reviewed 'plus 1' math facts (0-9)

History - Story of the World 1 - Chapter 30b Siddhartha (aka Buddha)

Reading - Click read the last chapter of Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel. He also read Caps For Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina and Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock by Eric Kimmel. He listened to The Trellis and the Seed by Jan Karon.

Handwriting Without Tears - lowercase 'e'

Memory Work - Books of the Bible, New Testament, Philemon - 2 Peter

Science - later in the day we began our Zoology lesson from Apologia. Chapter 1 - classifications


What about Clack?
Besides her normal doodling, Clack kept herself entertained with pennies. She put them in the cup & took them out.