It's been a hectic couple of days - mostly carschooling as we travel back and forth between our co-op, ice skating and Zoo School at Franklin Park Zoo.  We have been talking about Veterans Day but not doing much reading or writing.  Sophia is working on her poppy "Lest We Forget" cross stitch project which is coming along beautifully.  You can find the directions here.

Our co-op is going well with the Rainbow Science experiments a big hit with all the class members.  We are working on electromagnetism and even I am enjoying it!  That's saying a lot for me, the loather of all things science-related!  The Home Economics class has finished up its final week working on cross stitch, and I will now take the class through the holidays for a selection of Thanksgiving and Christmas crafts.  Sophia is really enjoying her ice skating lessons (translation:  P. E.!) and the class is working on a presentation for Family Skate Night on November 18 when we will welcome the Dads to the rink.  She is progressing well with her turn, and the lunge is getting a lot easier since she started stretching at home.

Zoo School is an awesome program - a cooperative effort between the Family Resource Center and Zoo New England's Franklin Park Zoo.  There are about ten students in the class and they are working through a variety of zoo-related themes in a classroom session and in behind the scences at the zoo visits.  Today we discussed diet and toured the commissary and the Childrens' Pet Area.  The students played a food web game to see the interdependency of our ecosystem and then prepared the AM and PM food bowls for the prairie dogs.  Precise weighing is paramount, as well as the correct combination of foods to provide a nutrionally sound diet.  It's a two-hour trek to get to the zoo but well worth it every month.

And tomorrow is another day in the car as we head over to Warwick to tour PETCO!

Pamela