Our second week went well.  I thought we would have school on Monday, but we took the holiday off.  I was too tired from painting my kitchen and family room on Saturday and Sunday.  They share a common wall so I had to paint both.  They are now both a nice shade of green!

We also took most of Friday off, too.  I took Mei to the mall for a play date with other adopted Chinese girls.  Most of the girls her age are in school or preschool but she enjoyed seeing the toddlers.  Of course I enjoyed talking to the moms.

So somehow we managed to squeeze in most of AW and LA assignments for the 5 days into 3 days.  In AW we started the African Savannah and talked about gazelles, ants, and lions.  In LA we worked on Aa with Astronaut Abe from Alaska.  And Stumpy had her babies, but then there was an ice storm. We are reading Gooseberry Park instead of Red Dog.  Mei loved the Weird & Wacky reading assignments too!

We also took a trip to the local science museum to see the ants.  In addition to the ants in the glass tunnels inside the museum, we found a large ant hill outside in the parking lot.  I forgot to take my camera, so no pictures to show you.

Here are the animals we made this week.  It was Mei's idea to add the legs for the lion.  She also later added the "My Little Pony" stickers to him.  We had fun!