Great day

Another great day in school.  What a difference when we start first thing in the morning!

Bible, Phonics, Reading, Seatwork, Spelling, Poetry, lunch break.

After lunch we started up with Writing.  Today we learned cursive b.  Boy that's a weird looking letter.

 

After Writing is Math.  Yesterday's math wasn't so fun because it was all lecture and no hands on, colorful fun.  So, today I brought the dominoes back out.  Not to mention, I had to teach her this information:

Please excuse my filthy board - I have been cleaning it every 5th day (at the end of the week), but I'm thinking it needs to be every 4th day.  Where's my janitor??

I tried colorful chalk - blue for twins and orange for doubles, but even I was still bored.  So, the colorful dominoes came back out.

Let's do Addition Families, shall we?  This was on the fly, just like the last one, so it wasn't very sophisticated.  Of course, she didn't get very much out of my chalkboard (in fact, I'm not sure she even looked at it more than once or twice!), but this hands on exercise did it.

Can you see I had to make a 7, 0 domino?

After math, we did more reading, more math, then it was activity time.  So, thanks to an idea on pinterest, we spread peanut butter on a toilet paper roll and rolled it in bird seed to make a bird feeder.  It took 3 minutes, which is perfect for the end of a home school day.

 Yes, it's the end of the day and she's still in pjs.  Yes, she's in winter pjs - I've been hot and set the A/C too coooooooold.  :-)

 Our masterpiece

I got working on some chores after that.  Michael was at a meeting for work, and Kara was making a book (about a 3 headed nice monster named Ponch - he loves books and her story is a tale of his trip to the bookstore).  I loathe cleaning bathrooms, so I made a deal with myself.  I just had to do sinks and toilets.  So, while I was working, Kara found me and wanted to help because she "loves to clean."  After a full day of home school, is it possible that's what I'm most proud of today???  :-)  She cleaned my bathtub, bless her, while I did sinks and toilets, which turned into doing floors too.

Then we coupon shopped at Staples - where she got markers for helping me clean and I got extra shelves for home school organization. 

Then I made dinner, we went to my parents' house so Kara could show them her book, and we came home.

The more I thought about it, the more I decided I need some more dominoes.  I had to make a 7, 0 one today, and we're only up to the 7 family.  I know we're going up to the 18 family, so I need to see if they have teacher dominoes that go up higher.  I pulled up walmart.com and searched, only to find all these sets of Mexican dominoes.  Light bulb!  (Have you seen Despicable Me?  He says that.  You gotta see that movie - it's so great.  But, I digress.)  I pulled out my Mexican dominoes set from the basement (that was given to me free - I think by my mom) and get to organizing them to make sure it's a full set.  Wouldn't you know it?  It is!!  And they go up to 12!!!  So much better than 6. 

  

I'll think of something to get us from 12 to 18......

Now it's bed time and tomorrow is Sunday, the Lord's day.  I can't wait for church.  They say a church is to Christians as a hospital is to sick people.  So, so true.  I am sick in that I am a sinner.  Looking forward to soaking it all in and worshiping my sweet Lord.