Mid Week Round Up

Haven't accomplished much this week. We did our writing and some reading yesterday, but I'm just not feeling well.

This morning we went outside to take pictures for the writing assignment. Tamarin gets to write captions for pictures of our animals instead of the summer story I originally planned. I had hoped to get a video of our blind great dane running around, but he was not having it today.

 

 



While we were outside, this happened -

 

So much for me getting to eat the girls' leftovers for breakfast.....

Yesterday, we had an impromptu lesson on hearing and eardrums. Why? I cleaned the girls ears which I always end with pouring alcohol in to dry them out. Tamarin this time was convinced that if I poured it in, surely it would fill her skull. So I drew her a picture showing there was no hole in our ear. We pulled out our little trampoline and discussed how sound hits our eardrum just like us bounding on the trampoline. We've discussed before how air is a substance and sound is moving air. I have a few really neat practical experiments that show this. If anyone is interested I can post those, just let me know cause right now I'm not in the mood to hunt them down if no one is interested!

This was our writing project for the day.

 

I've done some little books like this last year. With those I asked Tamarin to help me write a story. I typed it up, printed it out, and she drew the pictures to go with each page. This time I took pics of the animals around the place and she gets to write whatever she wants. There's 11 pages of single pictures needing captions, she's done three. We'll do a few more each day till it's done. With the daily sentence I write it out on our board and she copies. With this I am making her sound it out on her own.. well mostly. I did tell her about the silent e in cakes and that chicken starts with ch (cha cha cha).

Hooch LOVES his new family..... can't you tell?



Wrap up the more formal teaching today reading the B stories and the chapter book. Drew the 2 sheet earlier, but probably will not get around to anything else math related. I'm about to set out the stuff for marshmallow art. We'll see if I get around to writing the B sheet today or not. I'm doing those mostly for Lemur, but she's being four today....... grrrr.......