Africa, Charlotte’s Web and a Ladybug
Is that title random enough?
We have ‘officially’ finished the legally required number of school days for this year. Since we school year-round, this isn’t really that big of a deal, but for some reason I’m feeling a sense of accomplishment. We’ve also just finished my older son’s grammar book, the math book we were working on (taking time from Math-U-See to establish a bit more mastery in a tricky area before moving on) and the Capitalization & Punctuation workbook we were also using for Language Arts. Things seem to be wrapping up all at the same time here without me planning it that way. Funny how that happens.
We’re going back to Math-U-See now. I back-tracked a few lessons to make sure we get a running start at it, and so far things are going much more smoothly than they did the last time we were here. I’m glad I seem to have made the right decision to step back and work on the tough stuff more before moving on to new skills.
We’ll also be diving back in to The Mystery of History and our timeline notebook. We’re learning about Africa in general and Tanzania in particular since we started sponsoring Selina. I haven’t yet decided what will go into our Selina notebook and what will be made into a lapbook. We’ll be continuing our Language Arts by using the Total Language Plus guide for Charlotte’s Web. Just a small problem there. I can’t find our copy of the book! I’ve been almost literally tripping over the thing since I bought it last year and of course now that I need it, I can’t find it anywhere. ARGH! Good thing I’m in spring cleaning mode. I’ll find that thing one way or another. Or buy a new one, LOL.
My younger son has a new pet – a ladybug. I got him a bug pod for Christmas and he’s had to wait all this time for a bug to put in it. Poor child. I suppose it was a little mean to give it to him so far ahead of time, but he managed to play with it in the meantime – treating it like Tinker Toys, mostly. My older son found the first ladybug of the season (or a ‘leftover’ from last year) in the kitchen yesterday, so we now have it imprisoned comfortable in its new home. Which my younger son is carrying around the house like it’s a pet carrier. I’m just waiting for one of the tubes to fall off and the ladybug escape. We’ve warned him but he doesn’t care. He wants his ladybug with him so he can keep an eye on it. I’ve armed him with a magnifying glass in the hopes he’ll be happy watching it that way and not decide to take it out and ‘play’ with it. We’ve given it water and some raisins so it should be good for now. It’s currently napping on top of one of the raisins.
So, that about does it for the excitement around here today. Our heavy rainfall of earlier today has now turned into snow of the very fat and fluffy piling up quickly kind. It should melt by tomorrow, though. I’m so sick of snow, but at least we’re getting to the time of year when any snow we get can’t stay long. Hopefully this will be the last of it for this season!
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