Space Rose Academy: Nighttime Science with Dad

The morning was pretty chill yesterday. The girls got up late on their own and we slowly got ready and eased into schoolwork. Story is on a reading kick lately! Woohoo! She read a book to me and then chose from our stack of readers and headed into our bed to read away. While she was in there River and I cuddled up and she read to me.

(This is the current selection of readers we have checked out)

We moved onto some math work and I brought out math-u-see worksheets. They could use the blocks or not but it was just visual review. I think this program makes basic addition and subtraction concepts really stick.

We finished up talking about the layers of the earth and drawing for our science notebook entries and then it was free time. I ordered a pack of erasable chalkboard markers for the windows. I want to use them for writing prompts- write on the window what they see outside, etc. but the girls had a blast decorating the back sliding doors. These markers looked so cool on the window when it got dark out.

The girls and I headed up to our PPP after lunch. The take two classes there on Thursdays. The first class is drama with me. And I have to say- that class is SO MUCH FUN!! The next class I teach is Backstage. Story takes yoga and River has Mammals of the Pacific Northwest. We ended up hanging out for about an hour after school, I had a lot of work to from my garden class. It was really fun hanging out in the classroom- music playing, kids coming and going and hanging out.

By the time we got home it was starting to get dark ( stupid Daylight Savings Time ) and time to start dinner. The evening was a blur of food and family and noise and smells and music and animals and the wonderfulness that is our house in the evening.

Nighttime included the usual books-

a bit of art

a new world language book we are using ( the Hello Atlas by Ben Handicott )

a story about kitchen secrets from Pooka and Elsie Book

We are going through a new book - Every Month is a New Year by Marilyn Singer and Susan L.Roth. Last night we read about the Festival of Lights in India.

read about orcas in Ranger Rick Jr.

* we continued with Christmas in Camelot from The Magic Treehouse

*and Third Grade Mermaid ( I can't stand this book but the girls like it)

The best part of the night was when I caught story trying to get a reaction touching a lightbulb to a battery. I asked David if he had anything that he could do with them to show electricity or something. And he delivered!! He brought down a couple different volt meter gadgets ( not my area of expertise at all)! The girls had a blast testing all sorts of batteries .