And now back to our regularly scheduled programming...

All seems well, for the moment at least, on the legal homeschooling front. And anyhow, life is much as usual around here, though I did call up the superintendant of our county school district and asked him what the court ruling meant for charter schools, and yeah, they would have been more or less screwed.

Yesterday, we didn't do a lot of homeschooling, but we did cover math and phonics. Plus we found salamanders in our backyard (working on having the kids draw pictures of them). Elf worked some more on 2 digit addition, with carrying, which for some reason he thinks is funny(?). He also started lesson 3 in ETC 3, which is on silent "e" words. Fairy worked on writing capital letters, and a couple of lower case ones, plus writing numbers. Elf spent about an hour later in the day browsing through DK's Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science, which E got to add to our homeschool library. We also watched one of our family favorite movies - Lemony Snickett's Series of Unfortunate Events - which I think I can count as a vocabulary lesson, since the narrator is always explaining what some of the bigger words mean. ;)

Speaking of Fairy, she's had a very upset tummy (involving nasty bodily functions) for a couple of days, but still went to her first class at the charter school on Monday. A really nice 2nd grade girl sat with her and helped her work on symbols of California. She says she really enjoyed it. My mom was the one that took her, and she said she stayed until Fairy seemed settled in. However, Fairy felt really bad again today, so she missed Spanish and music, which she found really disappointing. Of course, there's always next week.

Today we covered math, phonics, a little history (still on Ancient Egypt), and I'm going to start chapter 4 from RS4K with them this evening - "Plant Parts", just in time for prepping our garden! We'll also cover another chapter or 2 from Charlotte's Web, and I am going to have Elf read another couple of pages in Frog & Toad aloud.