Today

Caroline napped in the morning today,cuz she's a bit sick, so we had some nice quiet table time. I sat with them and just talked without little one into everything.

• Listened to a couple of the bird calls on computer while getting dressed and doing morning chores.
• Review of the weather page at b-fast. Talked about temperatures. Hot/cold, in difft parts of the country.
• Madeleine read a couple pages of Dick and Jane. Metal Insets. A bit of Draw Write Now.
• Erika read aloud "Sam/Bag" book. Worked with Moveable Alphabet. Colored Rice transfer. She and I drew picture of an ant and labeled the parts.
• Read County Fair and looked at a couple pages from Nature Books
• Dorothy and I did swooshy drawings with the block crayons. Hand/Foot Transfer Kit. Moveable alphabet.
• MED all did letters in the colored sand.
• Put FIAR story discs on our new maps.
• Outside playtime w/ neighbors
• Coloring/drawing time outside.
• Lunch. French Song & counting.
• Fingerplays on the floor before quiet time.
• Girls played with Ponies while I read 2 chapters from On the Banks of Plum Creek and Chapt. 3 of Burgess Bird Book. Madeleine narrated a couple paragraphs.
• Madeleine and Erika went swimming with Julee and Jemma. Caroline down for a nap. Read a couple books to Dorothy Jo and then we both rested.
• Craziness ensued in late afternoon. Told girls about the Cruise;they were NOT amused or excited. Tears were shed.
• Dinner. Read Helen Keller and Jackie Robinson stories.
• Played Twister.
• Doug over to babysit while Pete and I go on our last hurrah!
• Watched LeapFrog Video