Dance! (44/180)

J had her Parent Observation dance class this week on Monday!

We also had a rather traumatic time when we lost my dad's dog for several hours.  D had hold of the dog's collar right before she ran away, so she was beside herself with fear that the dog would get run over by a car and it would be her fault.  All's well that ends well, though.

W played Dungeons and Dragons three times again.

We went swimming (with friends!) and visited those friends' bunnies and chickens.

W helped reorganize all of our books, including some basic alphabetization and lots of categorization.  

R & D had their last circus classes of the summer.

All the kids attended their religious education classes (on dancing!) and sang at church.

W read independently and wrote some stuff for his D&D groups.  R wrote sentences AND VOLUNTARILY READ TO THE END OF A CHAPTER in this book:

This is a huge milestone for him - keeping reading just because he wanted to find out what happened next, and not because he was required to!  D kept working her way through the first box of Bob Books and J started using the Bob Books Alphabet books.

I read to them:
The Shelf Elf by Jackie Mims Hopkins


It's Only Stanley by Jon Agee


I Love You Because You're You by Liza Baker


Meet Mr. and Mrs. Green by Keith Baker


The Mushroom Center Disaster by N.M. Bodecker


Backyard Pets: Activities for Exploring Wildlife Close to Home by Carol A. Amato


I'm Not Reading! by Jonathan Allen



W is making good progress on a) actually understanding and b) remembering how to calculate long division.  And he worked with LOF: Fractions.  R worked with LOF: Honey, and D with LOF: Apples.

R & D experimented with reflection, and did some mechanical engineering:

W is listening to a podcast about the Supreme Court (plus other various podcasts).

They watched science documentaries and W used Scratch.

D did lots of drawing and creating.

This week included six "days of instruction".