Beautiful November Monday

                    

 Yesterday was a great day. We got a lot done, fighting was at a minimal, the weather was incredible and David and I even managed to squeeze in a hot date to Goodwill Outlet ( our date venue of choice!)
The morning was slow starting. We began with some independent reading and then some All About Reading Work. Then we moved on to spelling. Spelling is not a favorite subject around here. We use the All About Spelling program- the words not the lessons. But I had much less complaining by spelling with finger paint.

After that we moved on to work on our Scholastic News magazine. I love subscribing to Scholastic News. Kids love them! The topics are great, it's reading and writing practice for the girls and they don't even realize it. Plus, on their website , when you subscribe, you get an access code to lots of worksheets and games to link to the weekly topics. These worksheets are awesome!

When we finished Scholastic we made our botanical calendar for November. We began this year long project last month. The girls created the calendar templates and we copied them. Each month they fill out a calendar and a blank sheet to add things we find in nature that month. At the end of the year I will have all the pages bound together.

We FINALLY had enough sun today to finish up and test  our sundial. We made this last week but didn't have enough sun to test it. We got this project off the Generation Genius website. It's a subscription based science video site hosted by Dr. Jeff Vinokur. All their lesson videos contain a project to do as well and the projects are all pretty creative and do-able. We won't stay subscribed to this site for too long , as it's kinda pricey. But right now they are loving the cast and the energy and the topics.

We also made a trip to the library, did some math, read a chapter from Story of the World and did some time line work on it. 

At bedtime we read A LOT but two books we read last night was our weekly stories for LA from Among the Meadow People. I don't know what it is about these books but kids love the stories, they are always asking for more. There are no pictures and the writing is small and old-fashioned sounding but something about the critters and the morals in them just clicks. We also read from Pooka Pages and learned about the uses of Sage. We have some growing downstairs so they girls got to play with it while I read.

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