Two Days Worth of Learning :)

Yesterday was a busy busy day. I knew we were too busy when my middle son asked "Are we going to get to stay home all day tomorrow?" .. They missed being home.. I did too. One of the things we did was get some flower seeds as the store. Last night the kids began digging up the flower garden area.. I till take a few days to get ready but they are so happy working in the dirt, hauling bricks, playing with earthworms, and replanting grass! The were in their element. They all looked so cute that I wanted to grab the camera but I think I get on the kids nerves taking pictures of them all the time :) Catherine had on a long red white and blue prairie skirt and she reminded me of Laura walking around with the shovel and that skirt. Nathan was so sweet in his SHORTS and COWBOY BOOTS :) and Joseph was in his element trying to figure out the placement of the bricks around the perimeter. We all had fun last night. I loved working in the yard!

Although we did tons if running around yesterday the kids still got their math finished before we left. At the Library I picked up some poetry books and others I will list below. The poetry was GREAT .. before we left the Library the kids were all "fussin" (they really dont fuss much.. so I guess they were really discussing".. who was going to get to read "Runny Babbit" in the car. I told them we would pick three poetry books and we would rotate in the car every 60 seconds. Of course they said that wasnt enough time so what we did was just take turns reading poems. Each child had different books and after all the children finished reading they would rotate books. The kids LOVED it. The poems were so good!

Here is a list of other books we picked up while at the Library:

Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farm (for Cat- silent reading)










Homer Price (two copies for Joseph and Nathan to read together)












A Cricket in Times Square-( for read aloud)











Catherine finished Jane Eyre Children's Illustrated Classic last night... read the last eight chapters to the end cause she wanted to see how it ended.. she LOVED it!) Here is her Narration she did this morning. She is also going to try and make a lap book as well.

Name three things about the Main Character:

1. She was an Orphan.
2. She was a Private Teacher (Governess).
3. She was a good Artist.
4. She was a teacher at the school.
   

Favorite part of the story:
My Favorite part was when Mr. Rochester got his eye sight back.

If you could be any person in the story, who would you be?
Mary, Jane's' cousin, because she seemed really nice.

Name places that were discussed in the book:
India, France, England,

What languages were discussed in the book:
English, French,

Who were the main Characters?
Jane, Mr. Rochester, Mrs Fairfax, Grace Poole, Bertha (Mrs Rodchesters wife)

What you liked about the book?
All of it.

If you could end the book another way how would you end it?
For Bertha to not go mad.

Today the kids spent time with math, spelling, reading, working in garden, playing in the backyard, building an obstacle course around the outside of the house, putting together the first page of their nature books, helping Mom get ready for Bible class tonight, cleaned house, played with the dog, did copy work of a poem about an eagle (the boys) see below and Catherine tried to decide which poem she wanted to copy from Emily Dickinson (spending about 45 mins reading Emily's Poetry), and listened to two stories from "Kiddie Records"(one about an opera and one about a church mouse) as well as "Beethoven lives upstairs".


Heres the poem that is the boys copy work:
The Eagle (a fragment)

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Its been a great day.. I am looking forward to getting into a better routine once we get back from our trip. We are traveling for Easter.. so that always put s a kink in our days before we leave trying to get ready. Tomorrow.. we will spend most of the day packing and cleaning the house:)

Thanks for reading!
blessings
ruthie