Gravity

When you lose control and you fall in a hole, it's Gravity. Or, it's when your four-year-old wants to play a game called ball storm and she dumps 100 balls over the side of the swingset. So, we discussed gravity, Sir Isaac Newton and that exhausted my trivial knowledge of gravity. But, I'm learning (slowly) to consciously integrate science, math and phonics into our day.

It was such a beautiful day here that we spent most of the morning outside. We took a snack, our picnic blanket and our library bookbag outside and ate and read and read and ate. We read a great book today called Twenty is Too Many by Kate Duke. The book starts out with 20 guinea pigs, then subtracts 10, then one from each until you get to one lonely guinea pig. It was a good way to start talking about taking away and adding to. Later we made some chocolate chip cookies and we talked more about how many cups, how many teaspoons, etc.

We're also continuing to work with letter sounds, particularly the short vowel sounds. According to A Well-Trained Mind, dd will be reading by the 11th lesson in Phonics Pathways. That's encouraging. Right now, she doesn't care to work with the blends, but we'll keep plugging away in fun, exciting homeschooling ways!