- Visited the Kansas Cosmosphere
- Played Scrabble, Chess, Candy Land, Black Box, Checkers, and many computer games
- Played with the marble maze, trains, puzzles, magnetix, the piano, and each other
- Read 27 books so far (for our 100 books for Scholastic's Classrooms Care)
- Listened to and sang with Sing the Word from A to Z (Bible verses) many times
- Listened to The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid audio book even more times
- Watched a multitude of Backyardigans and Magic School Bus video episodes (repeatedly)
- Went to MOPS, YEA!, the local elementary school playground, 2 parks, and our neighbor's house to play
- Made Amish Friendship (cinnamon) bread
- Visited Grandpa
- and talked about rhymes, homonyms, "Is God bigger than the galaxy?", what to have for meals tomorrow, Daddy singing opera, how long a half-hour is, telling time, and which day we should trim fingernails
At YEA! on Tuesday, DS1 partially colored a map in the "Reading without words -- Maps" class. He wanted me to write "colored by I...." on it, but I just wrote "by I....." instead. When we got home, he reminded me what I was supposed to have written, and DS2 told me "You need to write C O L O R" (spelling out the word "color"). I have suspected that he is "really" reading already, not just repeating back memorized sections of books we have read a zillion times, and I know he can spell "stop," "zoo," and "exit," but since those are usually in a context that is familiar, his spelling "color" with no helping visuals or hints just blew me away. I don't think we're going to need a phonics curriculum. :-) As much as that delights me, it makes me nervous, too. I've spent the past year deschooling myself, but I still have a long way to go.
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