Monday, October 23, 2006

-Muirgen wanted to do circle time, so the two of us did.
-Introduced a new memory verse. We said it over a couple of times.
-Astrid completed 3 pages in her reading workbook and about 30 pages in her math workbook.
-Astrid learned how to play Chinese Checkers. We played a couple rounds.
-The girls helped me make apple brownies.
-They did the dishes. Made a big mess of the area surrounding the sink, but the dishes looked great.
-They played birthday party, Noah's ark, mommies and babies, etc.
-Muirgen coloured a page in a colouring book.
-Last week was World Rainforest week, so we looked up rainforests in our illustrated children's encyclopedia and read what it had to say about them. We looked through a book we have about animals of the tropical rain forests.
-On the next page in the encyclopedia was 'reproduction', so when the girls noticed the picture of a pregnant woman in cross-section, they, of course, wanted me to read all about it, which I did. They took great interest in the diagram and felt for the different bones it showed (pubic bone, tail bone, spine, etc.) on their own bodies.
-They made up a dance to go with a song we know that talks about 5 golden leaves hanging in a tree. In each verse, another one falls to the ground until they're all gone. Their dance involved holding leaves from our nature table and letting them flutter down at the appropriate time.