Wednesday

Poor little M was sick as a dog today. She actually fell asleep on me during a short story before lunch. I don’t think that has happened in years. And I don’t think she has EVER fallen asleep during a story before. At least not one I read to her. [...]

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Tuesday

~First thing this morning, Elliott demanded books. He is finally really getting into listening to the stories. And he also stops me and makes me point out words to him. A year ago or so a friend gave me her sons’ old Bob Books so I pulled thous out for Elliott today and we read [...]

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Monday

~Earlier today we talked about freedom and I related some of the book I recently finished which is about Afghanistan. I told her how it reminded me how lucky I am to have simple things like running water and the freedom to walk the streets alone. I told her about the Heifer organization [...]

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Sunday RE

~M’s class listened to the story of the Mustard Seed again and talked about it.
~They looked at earthworms and learned about them and their life cycles.

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Friday – Camp Fire

Have you noticed yet how busy our week has been? Cause I am about ready to keel over and sleep for a week.
~This morning the kids watched TV while I got ready to go.
~We listened to StoryNory in the car – it was Hans Christian Andersen’s The Shephardess and the Sweep.
~Camp Fire meeting: The [...]

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Thursday – Field Trip!

It was a loooong day. We left the house at 9:00am (had to miss E’s speech appointment), caught the 9:50 coaster to Encinitas, played at a playground all.day.long, caught the 3:10 coaster back home and walked in the door probably around 4:30. It was lovely, though and we had a blast. For the first time [...]

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Wednesday

~EARLY in the morning while I caught up on lost sleep (Alex snored all.night.long) the kids watched PBS Kids & played on PBSkids.com
~Kids looked at Look & Find books.
~Elliott spelled words.
~M’s EF came by and we had our monthly meeting.
~Off to art class! Today the kids learned to mix colors while fingerpainting.

~They also played with [...]

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Tuesday

I don’t remember what all went on yesterday, but I do want to record that we went to gymnastics class.

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Monday

We had a busy weekend which I will update about later. I procrastinated just enough so that I did not plan any lessons over the weekend. Therefore we have had a slow start today.
~E spelled more words today. He is spelling new words daily and I can’t keep my list up. [...]

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Weekend

Saturday we headed up to Balboa Park for Camp Fire’s annual Harvest Fair. We had some frustrations (as, surely, Camp Fire did, too) when the teenagers running the game booths just sort of… left… so the booths were closed. There was a band who played which was just pure torture and I am pretty sure [...]

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