Yay!!  We made it through the week!  It is about 7pm and I just have some cookies (the NGJ cookies!) to bake and I am done!  I've got lots of goodies to take to the market this week!

     School is kind of tough to do on Fridays as I'm trying to get stuff ready for Saturday.  Been having a little bit of a struggle with the kids getting their chores done before school time.  We're going to be working on that next week!!  I have taken away computer time the last 2 days as they just dallied about their chores even after I spoke to them about it.  Grr!! 

     Alycia made a little book today called The Very Friendly Catepillar.  It went along the lines of Eric Carle's book, but instead of a different number of fruit each day, Alycia's catepillar plays with a different number of bug friends.  It is VERY cute!!  I had her trace the day of the week and write in the number of friends he played with that day.  1 Praying Mantiss, 2 inch worms, 3 daring dragonflies, 4 lovely ladybugs and 5 roly-polies (pill bugs.....Alycia loves them and gathers little families of them....Ranger Rick had an article on them this month!)

     Daniel worked a little more on his solar energy stuff.  I did find some books that he might enjoy (he wants to MAKE a solar panel) so I need to email that list to the library to see if they can track any of them down!

     Yesterday I worked with David matching and gluing shapes.  That little guy is amazing!!  With only a little, infrequent prompting he got the shapes right and then as he was gluing them he made sure they were right in the lines!  This from an almost 3yo??  I was amazed!  We made a school bus with windows, wheels and a little stop sign (in honor of Grammy and Peppy who both drive busses).  Too cute!!