We spent one whole day, breakfast to bedtime, emptying out and then prepping the school room for our first day. The girls were so excited to wake up and get started. They worked quickly through their Morning Routine charts without any reminders from me!
We got started early since our first MOPS meeting happened to be on the same day. We did our calendar time and reviewed the Awana memory verse before heading off to our meeting. When we returned home, we had lunch and then went back upstairs to carry on with our school day.
The first day was great and we all finished just as excited as we started!
We have been reading Farmer Boy, the second book in the Little House series and the girls really love it! They especially love to make foods that we have read about so we checked out the Little House Cookbook and started off by making donuts. One fun thing we learned: if you twist the donuts instead of cutting them into circles, they will flip themselves over in the oil when they are done cooking on the first side!
Of course, we had to follow it up the next day with popcorn! After reading about Royal Wilder making popcorn for the family in a wire basket over hot coal, we decided to make some fresh popcorn on the stove top. It was fun and yummy!
We also had a double-yolked egg when we were making dinner that night!
We have been studying Ansel Adams and comparing his photographs. We spent some time discussing perspective and how different angles and distances change what you see. The girls each took 3 shots of the same object from 3 different perspectives as an experiment. Lily chose a rock, Ruthie a weed and Josie a leaf.
Today we did some weaving after reading about Almazo's Ma weaving fabric in Farmer Boy. Ruthie and Lily nailed it. Josie made "rainbows" with hers. :)
Just to liven things up, Everett busted his face on one of the chairs while trying to climb onto the desk. He dripped blood all over himself and then wiped it all over me. It was awesome!
We ended school time today with our observation journals outside. The girls both chose to observe flowers. The flowers didn't do much so they had time to make some good drawings!
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