Wright Side of Life: Monday, September 16th

As the season slowly turns from full summer into early fall, it actually becomes harder to stay diligent with our school work. We accomplish what we need to despite of that... But the cool mornings invigorate the kids and they want to play-play-play, and I love letting them. Monday morning was perfect - just a little nip in the air and you can really feel that fall is truly arriving even though it's still 88 degrees by mid afternoon. We didn't start school until 11:00, as I had to return a stack of library books and pick up our new stack for the week. There was a lot to get accomplished, but we had tea & story time first before diving in. In the evening after dinner, the kids came up with an elaborate game they could all play together with their Boos and spent almost two hours - until bedtime - playing with them. Love that!

Lincoln and Grammie (+ Waverly) snagged the coveted chairs first thing ;-)

Lincoln was so insistent that Grammie and Waverly needed to get really comfortable and lay back. Gram couldn't quite get it while holding the baby, and so Lincoln shot out of his chair and before Grammie could say "NO!" he was flipping them back, lol. Waverly's expression looks so, "Oh great, here we go again..."

So self-satisfied that Grammie is now uncomfortably laying prone.

I asked Lincoln if he'd like Waverly to sit with him and he said, "Oh sure, of sourse [course]!" So we placed a pillow next to him and they hung out, chatting with Grammie for a while.

Such a good big brother :-)

We finished up our Science chapter last week on defining Astronomy, how it began, important inventors and touching on the space program. I don't like to fly through material just for the sake of getting it done, so now that we'd accomplished all of the workbook materials, I wanted to take this week and read through related story-books. We'll be reading these three books over the course of the week and discussing as the finale to that Science chapter.

Part of Lincoln's school "work" every day is one-on-one story time with me. Often the girls will come and sit and listen also, but as this is not formal tea & story time, they aren't required to. We had several good books last week from the library, and I thought it would be fun for the kids if I start keeping track of all the books they've read/listened to! So here are the 10 story books for this week:

"The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything"

"The Lion and the Mouse"

"Sylvester and the Magic Pebble"

"The Little Engine That Could"

"Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"

"How I Became a Pirate"

"Harold and the Purple Crayon"

"A Sick Day for Amos McGee"

"Strega Nona"

"Jumanji"

After he worked on writing his four letters for the week - "L," "I," "N," "C" - these are the two books Lincoln selected. He really enjoyed the "Alexander" book, but I was surprised by how much he LOVED the "Little Old Lady" book - he got really into it and made all the sounds with me every time in the correct order!