Today started out pretty smoothly.   Little Joelle slept in for me (actually she woke up, but daddy was nice enough to go get her and put her in bed with me adn she fell back asleep).  Since she was sleeping longer than usual, I was able to shower and get dressed without any interruptions or rushing to finish before little fingers get into too much mischeif

Jordan had woken up by the time I got out of the shower, and we then started our morning chores.   While Jordan did her chores, I focused on cleaning up the kitchen and hand washing the remaining dishes from last night.
After her morning routine, Jordan helped to make breakfast (scrambled eggs). 

After the girls ate breakfast (I had a keifer smoothie for my breakfast), I had Jordan clear the table and then help me clean the bathroom.  She sprayed down the sink and counter tops, and wiped them down as I scrubbed the toilette and bathtub. 

 I'm wanting her to start learning new skills and cleaning duties by having her work beside me and clean an area of the room I am cleaning for the day.   Since my home and my rooms are fairly small, I think I can concentrate on cleaning one room a morning, and get it accomplished fairly quickly.  And having her be responsible for one thing to clean or one area to clean in the same room I'm in, it will make it easier for me to show her how to clean it and for me to be near her to help her or make sure she's doing it correctly.   

As she learns a new skill or cleaning duty, and does it proficiently, then we will add it to her "commissioned chores" chart.  The "commissioned chores" will allow her to earn some money or treats by doings things above her normal chores.

We finished chores by 10:30, and then started into schoolwork.

We started with the "Pledge of Allegiance"  and then had "calendar time", identifying todays date, yesterday's day and date, and tomarrow's day and date.

Then we had "bible time" and reviewed what we have learned so far about creation:  Genesis means beginning, God made the sun to rule the day, and the moon to rule the night, etc.

Next came reading/writing.   I read aloud several poems from "Poems and Prayers for the very Young" about the sun, moon, stars, and God's Creation.

We then reviewed phonetics "g", "s", "qu", and "b", and  Jordan practiced writing the letters.   Joelle had to be like big sister.  She sat at her little table, and I tried to give her paper and crayons, but she would not be happy until I gave her a pencil too!

Jordan practicing penmanship

"See mommy, I'm learning too".

I tried to incorporate a little of the arithmatic in luchtme.  For lunch, we made sandwiches, and we practices top, middle, and bottom.  Bread was on the bottom, tuna was in the middle, and bread was on the top.   Jordan also later demonstrated "top, middle, bottom" with her blocks.  3 red blocks were on the bottom, 3 yellow in the middle, and 3 green on top.

We also practices counting to 100.   Jordan had no trouble counting by 10's, but she still struggled a little bit with counting by 5's and by 2's.

We continued the theme about the sun, moon, and stars for "God's World" (Science(.   I read aloud from Childcraft Copywrite 1954, Vol 9, pgs 144-148.  We read about the stars, what they were, and about constellations.  We also discussed how God put the moon and stars for signs and seasons.  And also why stars looked so small, even if they were bigger than our sun.

We then closed our books for the day, and had naptime.