May 9th- May 15th

Sunday- Happy Mother's Day everyone!!

Monday- Ava read the entire book "I have a magic pony" and then went and helped her father plant the seedlings in the garden. Amara read 5 pages from "Super Friends go Bananas". Corbin played "Ghost Hunters" while we were doing this. He "investgaed" in his bedroom. He said he was doing "EVP"s. lol. SO cute! Ava played the V-smile while Amara played on Starfall.com. I read 2 more chapters of "Sarny" to the girls.

Tuesday- The girls had a friend over to play for a while. We watched 3 episodes of "How the Earth Was Made". We learned about the San Andreas Fault line, the Mariana trench, and Loch Ness (the Lake, not the monster). That is a really interesting show. I really like how it recaps everything it has previously discussed throughout the episode.

Wednesday- The girls did math worksheets and worked on writing/spelling dolch site words. Ava has been reading by herself at night. In the past week and a half she has finished 2 Scooby Doo books. Amara read 5 pages from "Clifford the Big Red Dog". Then I read "Ox,House, Stick, The history of the Alphabet". We finsished "Guliver's Travels" and then went to the library. Then at the store, Michael and I quizzed the girls on spelling of dolch site words (about 10 each). When we came home I read 2 more chapters of "Sarny". The kids exercised in the basement (doing push-up, situps and jumping jacks). In the evening we watched about half of "Winged Migration". Its an interesting video showing how different birds travel and live.

Thursday-I read another chapter of "Sarny". The girls had gymnastics, while Corbin and I went to the library. Together we read a book to the reading dog. I read a book to the girls about nouns. We talked more about the use of punctuation and what types of punctuation applies to which sentence. Michael had the girls do math and they each read. We watched "Ghost Hunters" together. Ava played a new computer game that all of the instructions are reading.

Friday- Today was gorgeous!! After math in the morning, we went to the community center where the kids played with other homeschooled kids. We went to the store where the kids each practiced dolch site words. They are getting very good at reading and spelling them. Then we had a picnic in the park and the kids played on the playground equipment and in the grass. The kids looked for bugs and watched a bee fly from flower to flower. Amara drew pictures of the bugs and birds she saw. We came home and took a little rest while the girls watched "School of rock: multiplication". Ava is beginning to learn some multiplication. Then they played at the neighbors house. After dinner we had a bonfire where the girls and the neighbor girl told each other ghost stories. It was a very outdoorsy day.

Saturday- Ava and Amara took turns on the computer playing on the "Jump Start". The girls had "Gymfest" at gymnastics today. It was cool to see all the things they have been learning in gymnastics. We came home and had a bbq outside with the neighbors.