• Erika did the Moveable Alphabet while the other 3 played in bedroom. She made 30 words, then wrote them all down. Really intense work for about an hour.
• Started reading the 10 Commandments book. Went through first 2 today.
• Read story from Devotional Stories for Little Folks. Lots of good conversation about the Real Presense.
• Colored Angel pages for Feast of the Guardian Angels. Listened to a few Guardian Angel songs. Read "Angel in the Waters"
• Made Angel Food Cake
• Folded Lots of Clothes today.
• Girls played with blocks, Barbies, dollhouse. Played outside for a couple hours.
• Read a bunch of new "Autumn books" from the library at bedtime.

• 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.

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
  
  
  
  

• Madeleine listened to bird sounds on the computer while I got Dorothy set up with beading/sorting/matching project. And, Erika got set up with her button project.
• Madeleine did a bit of MUS. She asked to do "2's"
• Dorothy did number and alphabet puzzle
• Trip to the library
• Lunch
• Mr. Rogers
• FIAR - "Madeline". First time through. talked about pictures. Took FOREVER! (as it should, I guess)Drew the Eiffel Tower. Looked through my photo albums from France and found some of the famous landmarks that are in the book. Looked at the different facial expressions on the children and drew our own. Sad, Solemn, Happy, Crying, etc. Drew French flag and colored it in. Located France/Paris on map.
• Madeleine browsed MONET art on the computer and picked the "Poppies in Argenteiul" one for the background of the computer. D & E played dollhouse
• Dorothy Jo hung out with me in the kitchen. We made meatloaf
• M & E played First Holy Communion with the Barbies. The Gregorian Chant was sublime!
• Late quiet time in Living room. Girls looking through books about Monet. They picked one print to hang up.
• Pete read to girls LOTS before bed while I had a couple over for NFP instruction.

Mad read book 7 & 8
Puffin Poem. Looked up Puffin on bird website and listened to sounds
Dorothy Jo - counting cards, Mother Goose rhymes.
I organized Art Bin while they played.
Looked at Country Diary of Edwardian Lady book. They recognized some of the flowers
Played around on the new Bird computer program. Listened to other bird calls. Tried to get it set up so it's an independent activity.
Drew pictures of Puffins outside.
Read Paddington
Picture books
Read Devotional Stories for Little Folks
Read Herriot story. They love these so much!! (Oscar story)
Snack.
Play outside.

• Madeleine - 5 minutes reading
• Oklahoma copywork. Pete was in Oklahoma. Located OK on map. Read pages from state book.
• Marriage of Cana bible story. Sang Hail Mary from Donna Cori Gibson's CD.
• Puffin Poem - memorized a bit.
• Went to Paula's for some playtime.
• Read through Big Back Yard magazine with M and E
• 2 chapters from Paddington
• leapfrog video.