Bonny Glen Up Close

French & Latin, math, Strictest School

Super quick, battery dying...

President's Day. Jane still had science, she was happy.
Lemon curd, Blue Moon duet, Flora's Windy Day, Knuffle Bunny.
Garden store w/ Jane & WB while Huck napped & Scott made cookies with the other girls.
Bought lettuces, strawberries, seed potatoes (only 3, for fun), freesia bulbs.
Came home, Scott was listening to music on couch w/ Rilla snuggled up playing DS while Bean and Rose played Wii.
Later: bike riding (B&R), planted the lettuces & strawberries & seeds & bulbs w/ Rilla & WB.
Now some of them are watching MASH.

Girls read & narrated about John Bosco.

Lewis & Clark, Missouri River, California condor.

Poetry memorization: Blake (R) & De la Mare (B)

Thursday notes

math all round, spelling for E & B

Wind in the Willows ch 2, first time it's ever worked as a readaloud EVER

E finished Son of Charlemagne

Bean read Farmer Boy, CHOW on monasteries

E wrote 22 pages of awesome Warriors fanfic. B helped plot.

then we mostly worked on LH inventorying, prepping orders for mailing. Life skills! Business 101!

afternoon: Zelda, errands, I know not what else

Tuesday notes

Feast of St Andrew

learned Our Father in ASL (all)

WInd in the Willows chap 1(E, B, R)

Snoopy songs (WB)

dictation passage (E & B)

King Lear (J)

math (all)

painting (baby)

 

Monday, right?

Science, orthodontist, Latin in the car

math for R & B, some spelling

extra ballet rehearsal for Rilla

they rediscovered Zelda

Beanie rediscovered embroidery (and so I need to dig out all the stuff)

set up the little wooden Advent cabin with animals behind each door, baby played with those all day (to R's distress)

 

Wednesday notes

This morning, early, Huck was so funny with the cuisenaire rods Rilla had left out: holding each one up for my inspection. "Bee?" he'd ask, and I'd name the color. Over and over for about ten minutes, and then he started seeking out the tiny cubes, the one-unit rods, which he especially adores, probably because they are of a size to pose some danger to him.

Beanie was playing piano, making up a song based on a Harvest Moon riff, and it was very sweet to hear Huck punctuating the melody with his funny "Bee? Bee?" Of course after a while I looked away and he commenced chucking rods by the handful into the fireplace. I think they're still there.

Rilla wanted to know "what are we painting today?" and remembered a tree painting she'd seen on a website yesterday, three or four tall triangle pines in different shades of green. On and off all day she's been playing with color mixing. The tree painting, and then right on the dry erase board which makes quite a nice surface for mixing. A little while ago she wanted to do another "magic" painting where I draw things on the paper with a white crayon and she paints over to watch them appear.

Tuesday notes

Read-alouds to Rilla:
MIRROR MIRROR (wow!! what a book!)
WOODY, HAZEL, & LITTLE PIP
THE TIGER WHO CAME TO TEA (such a hit)

Rilla pictures painted:
• an autumn tree (had to be repainted after Huck spilled water all over it. we dabbed it dry and touched up faded areas.)
• Cowles Mountain with green snow on top

Rose and Bean also painted fall trees
WB painted another scarecrow

more math, more harvest moon

Rose is reading Betsy & the Great World,
also a good deal of What Your 6th Grader Needs to Know (LOL)
had many questions today about the Vietnam War, the current war in Iraq)

Soccer practice as the sun went down. Played games in the corner of the field with my three littles and a six-year-old friend.

sandwiches for dinner

At WB's request, listened to Hey There Delilah about 15 times in a row, in the minivan

And now I can't stop singing it.

One more note about the eye doctor, a small thing I want to remember: how much Stevie enjoyed reading the letter charts. His nose is still stuffy from last week's cold so it was hard to distinguish between some of his answers (C, B, D, G all sound pretty much the same). So I had him sign the letters too and that worked great. He thought it was a splendid game.

He couldn't see the 3-D shapes or letters at all in that part of the best. Not at all!