K's work, C's a distraction & D's books

We had to do school in the morning while C was up & playing, so we could had our afternoon FREE for homeschool PE at a nearby college. C was quite a distraction - even though I tried to keep her busy with busy bag activities & computer games. It showed me we're not ready to school again full-time in the morning. :o) K did a great job cutting out small pictures and matching the beginning sounds "F" and "T" to the right animal on the page...

She also counted 10 foam shapes in the bowl and then the loose "ones" - it's nice to keep practicing this concept! The "ones" was partially erased thanks to the little fingers of C!D finished out Unit 16 today. And we finished our fantasy genre read aloud - The Cricket in Times Square. He was disappointed at the ending...the cricket left the city to return to his home in Connecticut. We checked out 2 sequels from the library to read and found a cartoon DVD of it, too!

Outside of our curriculum, he's been reading the normal Magic Tree House books at night and has read them all. It wasn't my first choice of reading material for him, but thankfully he picked up on the evolution material in the books and we were able to discuss why certain things aren't true - based on our belief in God's Word. I was proud of him second-guessing some of the dates in the books (millions of years ago, etc). However, I am not letting him read any of the Merlin Mission Magic Tree House books, though he's seen them at bookstores and asked about requesting them from our library. What I read of them involved a lot of wizards & spells. I explained to him that we are not going to read books about wizards/spells as their powers do not come from God. I don't feel God wants us dwelling on those things as He has called us things that are true, pure, noble, lovely, admirable...(Philippians 4:8). Thankfully, D understood.

He found a few Hank, The Cowdog books from the library to begin reading. We'll see how he likes them. They're silly mysteries, longer than the MTH books, so it'll take him at least 2 nights to finish them. :o)