Wow!  The other day Mei and I were looking at her calendar to start learning the months of the year, when I noticed how many stickers we had on the calendar since the start of school.  It doesn't feel like 6 weeks, but it really has been that long.  It still feels fun, exciting, and new!

We finished the African Savannah in Animal Worlds this week.  Yay!  We get to move onto the Rainforest.  I am ready for a new habitat.  We completed a diorama this week.  Mei had fun coloring, cutting, and gluing.  Mark wasn't convinced of my hippo.  He still wonders what a fat dog is doing in the grasslands.  Mei didn't seem to mind that the leopards look more like kitty cats.  She was so proud of it that she took it to a friend's house to show it off.

In LA we studied the letter E this week.  We had to have eggs twice for lunch, which was good since we needed the eggshells for our letter project.

My son Mark asked to be home schooled this week.  He figures he will have to write less if he is at home.  Boy, did I set him straight on that one!  His writing needs work, so we would do more writing, not less if he was home!  He is quite the social butterfly.  He is running for school vice president and is participating in the Foreign Language play.  I told him if he still wanted to be home schooled at Christmas time, then we could pull him then.

Mei with all of her LA animals A, M, B, F, and E.

Mei with all the African Savannah animals.