Monday, April 8, 2008

-Last night after the girls were in bed I wrote some math problems on the front door with the window markers for Astrid and some shapes to trace for Muirgen. When I came down this morning, they had done them.
-Had circle time.
-Girls worked on memory verses. For Astrid, along with memorization, this includes looking up specific verses in the bible.
-They helped me make bread (in the machine).
-We read some more of 'The Last Safe House'. It talked about how escaping slaves knew that a house was safe because its occupants would hang a lantern in the upstairs window. So we started making lanterns of our own out of tin cans. We drew dotted designs on them with markers and tomorrow we plan to use a hammer and nails to punch out the holes for a candle's light to shine through.
-We baked gingerbread cookies.

-The girls listened to music and danced.
-They played outside. I think they continued on with their imaginary farm that they thought up yesterday.
-Astrid completed two pages in her math workbook. I find that if I just leave it laying around where she's likely to see it, more often than not she'll flip it open and do a bit of work in it.
-Brandon, our house mate, arrived back today after being away for nine weeks. The girls spent supper filling him in on every detail he's missed.