Live and Learn
Feb. 17, 2006
Week 19
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February 13-17 Highlights from week 19. We read some great picture books this week. We've been through a dry spell with story books the past few weeks so I decided to check out a few websites with top 100 type lists to get some ideas. Here's a list of what we read: Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing Horace and Morris Join the Chorus Wiggle The Boy Who Loved Bananas Sit, Truman Diary of a Spider Flat Stanley Diary of a Worm Olivia Plaidypus Lost Kitten's First Full Moon Bath Time Olivia and the Missing Toy Everyone (especially little one) loved the Olivia books. I'd seen them before but never got around the checking them out. Diary of a Spider and Diary of a Worm are both by Doreen Cronin who wrote a few other books we love including, Click Clack Moo, Cows that Type. Both boys loved the humor of Horace and Morris Join the Chorus. I'm looking for some more of those. I'd been looking for a series of Science books similar to the Math Start books by Stuart J. Murphy. I finally resorted to plunking down in front of the Science section at the library and going through book by book. My efforts paid off as I found the Science Play Series by Vicki Cobb. These books cover a variety of science topics on a very basic level and include fun "experiments" that are more like play (and don't worry, you won't be running around for materials!). We continued with the Bob Books this week. Middle has learned enough sight words so that we were able to start playing "Sight Word Bingo." He loves it! He's still faithfully learning and practicing piano. As a matter of fact, he's come up with "backward school" which means we reverse the order we normally do things - all a ruse to get to do piano *first!* Oldest: I was able to work with ds each day in Math. I really enjoy the chance to work with him (well mostly - he's such a unique thinker!) and he's glad Math goes by quicker. :) I'm trying to expand on the methods taught in the book and cater more to his learning style (well, if I can ever figure out what it is!). So far we're having a good time and I think that counts for something. :) He's reading Along Came a Dog by Meindert DeJong for assigned reading. And I've started reading Carry On, Mr. Bowditch to him as well as a section or two from George Washington's World each day. Both of these books are excellent history reading. We're still reading poems out of Classic Poetry and are both getting a lot of enjoyment out of it. Ds is quite intuitive - he picks up more meaning than I do. Logic seem to be becoming a burden so I've reduced it to 3x a week. Tuesday was Valentine's Day. We celebrated by.....being without electricity all day! The local electric company erroneously turned off our power - we'd paid the bill by phone during a weekend and somehow the payment didn't get credited and we were put on a disconnect list. Fun! At least we got in our breakfast before it went off but had to cancel our Valentine tea. I had a card and small gift for each of dc waiting at their place at the table. Here's a pic:  |
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Mar. 11, 2006 - LOL!
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