• Grocery shopping in the AM
• Reading Practice: Read with M,E each for about 10 minutes.
• Books: Brother Bartholomew and the Apple Grove, Ox-Cart Man, Hurry Mary Dear.
• Poetry: Horse Chestnut Fairy
• Nature: Chapter from Burgess Bird Book, looked up birds: Song Sparrow, Whitethroat Sparrow, English Sparrow.
• Read Aloud: By the Shores of Silver Lake
• Adventures of Peter Cottontail - M narrated.
• Geography: Chapter Paddle-to-the-Sea. M,E narrate.
• Religion: Read a few questions from the Baltimore Catechism.
• All worked with Geo-Boards in the afternoon
• Lots of drawing at the table and play outside.
• Erika is in her room with her catalogues and dolls playing "house" alone. Very insistent that no one be in there with her.

• Sandpaper Letters with Dorothy Jo and Caroline
• Madeleine and Erika each read aloud for 5 minutes or so. Erika doing the Bob books. Madeleine doing Dick and Jane; she's almost done with her first one and is so excited.
• Went through a couple sight words.
• Read Story of Ping with Dorothy Jo
• Fifty Famous Stories Retold - William the Conqueror with Madeleine and Erika, they narrated by drawing a picture of the three birds.
• All drew at the table while I read from The Adventures of Peter Cottontail - Shadow the Weasel Gets Lost.
• Form Drawing with Pete for about 20 minutes.
• Talked about the rain from the rain gauge....they measured it.
• Counting game
• Lunch
• Quiet time - French CD
• Outside Playtime for a couple hours
• Jemma over - everyone drew while I read 2 chapters from On the Banks of Plum Creek and Burgess Bird Book. Madeleine did a quick narration. Erika filled in some details.
• Girls and Pete made Ice Cream.