Sep. 9, 2008
this week....
Posted in Homeschool
We're in week 2 of Louisiana and so far so good. Tuesdays are our "art" days so today we learned about the mardi gras and made little masks. It's the kind that just go over your eyes, kinda like The Incredibles, but only fancier than the black ones.  For once, art was a big hit with the girls and Rabbit requested the "whole mask" kind. I was going to pick those up, but they were more expensive at Michaels. So I got the 3 pack smaller kind and I got to make one too! Joy to the world... Piglet had her spelling practice test and got 100%, which is pretty much what she usually gets in spelling. She should do fine on her final test tomorrow. I'm not even worried. Just have her look over the words before we start homeschool and she'll be okay. Rabbit was very distracted by who knows what this morning. We did get some nasty thunderstorms this morning. But they didn't start until after she had started her work, so she can't blame it on that. Took her about an hour or so just to cover 2 subjects! Something's on her mind. She has been complaining she wants to move to the next town, where our church is, so that she can be in the same public school as her friends in Sunday School. No way. So we'd move to that town and just homeschool there! She is not going into public school uh-uh! We've been reading about Ruby Bridges, a girl who was chosen to be a part of the integration of schools in the deep South. It's pretty good so far. We're reading the book she wrote, "Through My Eyes" or something like that. We'll be watching the Disney movie about her tomorrow. I hope they keep it true to the story. Hollywood in general doesn't always keep things accurate. (look what they did to Pocohontas! ugh) We'll do the biography report on her on Thursday. Friday we'll wrap up Louisiana. It's been fun though we haven't eaten any Cajun food or had any gumbo. I couldn't find any okra!  I have a great recipe for vegan crockpot gumbo, taken from the fat-free vegan site I have linked here. ETA: Last night Piglet started choir. She did okay, but she's not used to all those instruments, etc. It was a lot on her. So we'll try it out for a few weeks and see how she does. It was overstimulating, and I'd like her to get used to it. The kids there were very nice and sometimes she misunderstood their intentions, or accused them wrongly. We gotta work on that.. Rabbit starts choir next week. I spoke with her leader today, but regret the fact I couldn't talk longer (she called from outta state too!). We were on our way out the door. Today we had a Barnyard thing at the library. The kids got to pet some animals and play games, do a craft, have "hay cookies". I had a small piece and didn't suffer a reaction - yum!  They were pretty independent without us in there; just a few parents joined the kids. My girls are so used to the librarians at this library, and they did great! No problems. Now there's a first. And a miracle.  And next week we start the "M" states, starting with Maine. That'll be neat. We'll learn about lighthouses and sea stuff. I ain't making no lobstah! lol I plan on doing some recycled crafts for art since they were the first state to start the whole recycling thing, so I'm told... and we'll make some kinda blueberry dessert. I should try to get kinda crazy with the blueberries on the kids, since they already know about Maine and their blueberries. But like I said, no lobstahs, unless we adopt one as a pet!  |
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