What a GOOD day...

Friday was hands-down the smoothest homeschooling day we have had in a while! We started out nice and early, going out to work in a local creek with the Cotati Creek Critters organization. We met up with the leaders, their interns, and a few other homeschooling families around 9, with the threat of rain imminent... chances of rain were at 99%! However, the rain was nice enough to hold off while we planted willows, examined a couple of tree frogs, sloshed through mud, and picked up trash. Just as we were finishing up, the skies opened, and it poured. We had so much fun though, and all the kids were damp and rosy cheeked by the end!

So, squishy and wet but happy, we headed home for hot apple cider. Afte the kids changed, and watched a movie, we sat down at the kitchen table for some lesson time. I had gotten Elf an inexpensive math workbook to reinforce some weak areas, and he loves the simple approach (and bright colors) of it. So he happily sat down to multiplication and place value while I worked with Fairy on number families to ten. I had Elf do some copywork and a few definitions too, from Writing Tales, while Fairy worked on letter sounds. I made some letter cards for her on 3x5 cards, making the letters as large as they could be and still fit so that she can trace them with her finger. We also did some work with the "at" family of words. She seems to be making progress....

We didn't do much else because I had to take off for work, but with nearly 3 hours of field time in the morning, I felt the basics at home were plenty. And the best part? NO complaining. NO whining! It was lovely.