Thursday, September 27, 2012

September 27th

 Every other Wednesday is a good break to run to the stores etc, but I do love having a long Thursday morning for school!  Student prayer, everyday blessings etc. 

We read chapter 5 on Angels since we just had the Archangels feast day a few days ago.  Vocab words, original sin, angels, devil, offend.  Worked on the St. Michael prayer again.  Reviewed the vocab cards and got most right this time.   Wrote down the words "examination of conscience" because that is a hard one!

Math- meeting book, date, weather, time, pattern, days until Kentucky are 19!  Whoohooo! Counted by ones forward and backward, then by 10 and 5s also.  Worked on counting by 3s on the white board so she can see the pattern of it.  Sang it too to the schoolhouse rock Cd.  Going to try to find that at the library today if we can get there.  Did a practice page of plus 1 facts page. I copied it and did with with her to show her how fast she will be able to do it someday.   Then practiced plus 0 on the whiteboard.  Took the plus 0 test- got 100% 25/25 at 39 second.  She is definitley happy with that!  Did the homework page 13. Practiced money with coins too.  Wrote down how 25+25=.50, then added .25 to get .75, then added .25 to make $100.  Did A LOT of math practice today.  Total math time overall is 1 hr 15 min. 


Spelling- gave week 4 test. Mixed up b and d, but then immediately saw it and fixed it. nice handwriting! Got 100% 


Worked on typing for 20 min.

Independent reading- since last week Sylvie has Magic Schoolbus Expedition Down Under, 90 pgs, Ramona and her Father, 175 pgs,  Ramona Quimby, Age 8 175 pgs, and Junie B. Jones and Monkey Business. 68 pages. She has read 220 pages so far in the original Winnie the Pooh over a few different times.She has also read a lot of the Little Saints blue books. 

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

September 26th

Today is the every other Wednesday milk pickup/Costco trip.  Usually we get an hour of work done at home first, but today we went to the hospital to meet new baby Jude Hyland!  So cute and super excited for them all.  We did listen to the Math Facts music in the car and got to milk pickup early. There, we did our Mass Objects game and then Sylvie read more for geography- North American kids.  Friday is a free day for co-op (no coop) so we will do our math lesson that day and anything else we need to catch up on then. 

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

September 25

Elyse and Luka both headed to school today since she is feeling better. 

Started off Student prayer, everyday blessings, and ch and verse.  We re-read our memory gems from all the previous weeks and did great!  Reviewed our faith and life worksheet from yesterday.  Wrote the answers to our Bible quiz game on the backs of the cards so they are all set to play. Worked on memorizing the St. Michael prayer and the act of contrition and talked about all the vocabulary.

Math- meeting book, weather date, year etc.  counted forward and backward, by 1s, 5s, 10 from 1-100.  Learned to count by 3's by singing the schoolhouse rock 3's song.  Wrote the multiples of 3 on the board, up to 60 and found the pattern of how it works. 

Worked on time today per the lesson. One hour from now, one hour ago etc. using real life activities we do at home. Noticed how on the clock face we are counting by 3s. Syvlie likes to make square numbers when she writes digital time.  It's kinda cute but also a little annoying because it is time consuming.  Did the math facts time sheet for plus one numbers. she didnt want to review the facts, just wanted to take the test because it was going to be so EASY! She got 24/25 in 1 min with 100% accuracy.  We did worksheet 12A together and took a break.  She will do the homework at rest time. 

We took a fast walk around the short loop in our neighborhood today for break time. 

Map Skills- figured out bigger or smaller than and near and far from.  Super easy and fun! 


Spelling- we worked on half of the worksheet together, and she will do the rest of it for rest time with the math page.  Promised to write it extra neatly so it will count for handwriting practice for today too.   

Devotional Story- Mold, Maggots and Cow Manure- interesting title! All about the "yucky" things that God has made for our good- mold= penicillan, maggots used in science and manure as fertilizer. 

Recorder- reviewd the quarter note,  half note and learned beats and measure.  We played note B and worked on the activities.  Then we learned A and reviewed where A and B are on the lines.  We also just barely learned the whole note before we had to stop to get the kids from preschool.  When I learned music, it was Every Good Boy Does Find-, well, now it is Enormous Green Boots Don't Fit, and still FACE, which I guess is so easy to remember it couldn't be beat.   Starting to get tricky, playing both notes A and B in quarter notes, half notes and now whole notes.  



Here is some of Sylvie's recent artwork: 


Monday, September 24, 2012

Monday, Sept, 23

 Elyse probably could've gone to school today, but in keeping with the 24 hour fever-free rule, I kept her home.  She was fine by naptime yesterday w. out  motrin, so that is good that she seems to be on the mend and didnt get the long illness I heard about that is going around. She is happily coloring and stickering here with us, let's see how long it lasts. 



We read our student prayer and today's devotional and looked up the actual verse in the bible.  learned the definition of hospitality. 
We reviewed liturgical objects (alter, stained glass windows, baptismal font, sanctuary light, confessionals etc.) 

Math- I had her seperate all the cash I earned this weekend working into the correct denominations.  Then we counted it and wrote it down on paper in the correct columns so we could add it up.  She did great remembering how to carry the one into the hundred column.  Then we seperated it into 100's and put it in the envelope for the bank.  Great practical math.  Also did the lesson 11 and the timed doubles test.  Even though she practiced doubles a lot last week, she still is not quite fast enough yet.  Got 18/25 done at 1 minute with 100% accuracy.   Will will continue to review!

We finished the grammar page from yesterday.  Capitals and titles of respect.

 

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Sunday, September 23

Yes, It is Sunday, but since Elyse woke up with a 102 fever this morning, she will not be going to preschool tomorrow.  I am not sure what kind of academics will will accomplish with her around, so getting a head start today during her nap.  Not sure how much we will get done today either, because I worked late last night and got up at 645am for bible study and Mass, and I work tonight too, so definitely need to nap!

Luka is working with us today, might as well.  Started same way as usual, Student prayer, everyday blessings and story, chapter and verse and reviewed all questions from Faith and Life q 1-9..  Even without Luka ever hearing the chapters before he got most of each answer correct! We watched the AllThings video again so Luka could see it.  Reread chapter 4 out loud to Luka. Did the activitity book for Ch 4 together.

Moved on to spelling. Sylvie worked on the worksheet and Luka wrote some of the words.

Grammar- full sentences and punctuation. Did half of the page. will finish the rest tomorrow.

Read deviotional stories - Church Picnic. 
That's it for today!  Naptime!




Starting

Sept 21- Friday








Today was co-op day.  We got a great tour of the SC room at the downtown Hughes Main library.  It was really neat to see the old book, artifacts, and archives.  They showed us how the micofische works too. I forgot my camera, but another mom sent me these pics!  

Thursday, September 20, 2012

September 20, 2012

Thursday

Daddy had to take a sick day today for a doctors appointment, so he got to join us for our school time this morning.   Same beginning as usual, student prayer, everyday blessings, ch and verse.  

Faith and Life- so daddy could see our faith studies and reviewed Ch 3- God the Creator and watched the AllThings video again w. Daddy.  Then we read ahead to Ch 4.  Adam and Eve.

Math- meeting book, weather, date, pattern etc.  Counted up.  Still need to work on counting backwards. Did written assessment 1, lesson 10. Scored 100%.  (not a timed test, but did it in about 4 minutes).

In the car on the way to the appt- Sylvie re-read her science chapter and also did 3 mind bender games! They are getting harder!!  

1pm-  Reviewed doubles and took the math facts test again, 23/25 completed in 1 minute and 100% accuracy!  Did the shape patterns to see how many different combos of shapes she could make.  Also did our spelling test for the week and got %100!  
 
Naptime since we ahve a playdate at 3:30,  Religious Ed and adult relig ed at 5pm and I work at 6:15!  Busy day! 




Wednesday, September 19, 2012

September 19, 2012

Happy Wednesday!

Started off with the students prayer and everyday blessings.  Read the final chapters in Little Acts of Grace- the first communion preparation program.  She is going to color her prayer chart, do the actviity about objects at Mass and color the manners chart too. 

Math- meeting book, weather, date, pattern.  Counting forwards and backwards. worked on pattern blocks and covering them with matching pattern blocks. Worked on basic fractions with the blocks, 1 whole, 1/2,  1/3 2/3 3/3 etc.  She did good at this.  Next I had her write all the doubles number sentences horizontally on the white board since we have been doing a lot vertically recently.  1+1=2, 2+2=4, etc.  then we played Jeopardy- i gave  her the answer and she had to tell me the number sentence for her doubles.  This was hard!  We will do it again tomorrow.   Next, we worked on plus one math facts.  We did the +1 timed test on page A.20. She got 17/25 finished with 100% accuracy in 1 minute. We did Lesson9A together and she will do the 2nd half for homework at rest time. 

Next she worked on spelling, then did the literature/reading devotional story- God's Big Family and answered the critical thinking questions.  Then we worked on map skills, smaller and larger area maps and then made our own map of our house, then a zoomed in map of our school area (aka- dining room).  

Grammar-  free writing of sentences using capitals and proper punctuation.   This is a big assignment!  

 We will finish off the day with practicing our recorder.   

Now it's 1pm and Elyse is happily (shocker) in bed for her nap.  I wonder how long she will play and if she will sleep.  She is quiet, so I hope a nap it will be. 

Sylvie is doing her aforementioned homework.  Luka is trying to write down the 10 books he read yesterday in the book journal. I'm reading a few articles and keeping him on track. 








Tuesday, September 18, 2012

September 18th

Happy Tuesday!  Lots of laughter today already! 

Usual beginning, prayers and daily kid devotion. See all pics for examples. (I update the pictures throughout the blog every other day or so, so check back a few posts for pics I may have added for previous days!)    



Found chapter and verse and getting good at it!  We went back to Ch. 1 in the Faith and Life and answered all the review questions from God the Father, the Trinity and this week's chapter on God the Creator.  She knew them all.  I think I will do these review questions like this (going back 3 or so chapters) every week just for reinforcement.  We also listened/watched another YouTube video of All Things Bright and Beautiful.  this is the one we watched today and like it best:  AllThingsBrightandBeautifulVideo.  We did the activity answers and she will do the coloring at rest time.  

Math- did the meeting book, looked at birthdays, worked on patterns, I tried to make harder ones, but she is really good at it and I only stumped her once.  Practiced counting forward and backward by ones and by tens to 100.  She is getting better! We practiced her doubles to 20 again, and she really has gotten better due to all of our reviewing in the car and random times yesterday!  She did the math facts doubles test, same one as yesterday, and got 21 out of 25 finished with 100% accuracy with only 1 minute given, whereas yesterday she got 16/25 finished with 14 accurate answers with 2 minutes given!  Wahoooooo!   We worked on  the some, some more game with the shape tiles, adding more shapes to the "party" and writing down the addition as we went.  Learned about carrying the one and she did great with that. Then we did about 8 money flashcards, again adding them up, but writing them down to "prove it".  (We are headed to the post office and I will let her pay again with change, so I wanted to practice.)  She is definitley better than last week!  

yes, this is messy, but look how great the math is! I had only planned to do one problem with her, but it turned into many!


We did the mind bender game- critical thinking skills. This was great fun and she did really well.  I love leaving the subject when she wants to do more! 



 We also did one handwriting exercise- she took her time and did better than last week. 

Next, she worked on Science-  read the next chapter on wedge, screws and wheels.  There was some surprising facts and made her laugh, so we will have fun reviewing it again tomorrow! She did the activity at the end of the chapter easily.  

  Finally, since our pizza Book-It coupons came we are writing down an official book it list towards earning a pizza. She read Fried Feathers for Thanksgiving while I typed this blog.   Pictures to follow!   Off to the post office to mail back Frank's guaranteed shoes for a replacement pair! 


Monday, September 17, 2012

September 17, 2012

I love Monday morning!  Started as usual with the everyday blessings reading and found the chapter and verse in the Bible too. Read chapter 3 in Faith and Life, about God the creator.  The poem All Things Bright and Beautiful is the main part of the chapter, so we read it and I quickly googled it.  Sure enough, up pops a children's choir video of the song on YouTube!  Then we went in to Elyse's room and read the same poem that is on her wall that Grandma Mary cross-stitched for Sylvia when she was a baby!  Talk about lesson reinforcement!  Reading, video on the internet and looking at the craft on her wall!! I LOVE this homeschool stuff just for that reason alone!!! 

Song we watched 



Math- worked on patterns, I just made up some and she finished them. This is easy for her, so I tried to make them difficult.  We moved on to memorizing doubles, she still needs to memorize 6+6, 7+7, 8+8, 9+9.  then we reviewed the easy math facts- (sums less than 10) using the triangle number family cards from Grandma. We did the test on page A1.2 and she got 16/25 correct. didnt get to finish 6 of them and missed 2. 8+8. Did worksheet 7A together and  she will do the other side at rest time.  Days of the week, ordinal numbers, writing one more, one less, digital time and some math facts. 

Reading from Devotional Stories for Little Folks- Not "That" Sister. Learned that "love isn't how we feel, it is a way that we act."

A new spelling list! Some of these are harder so she is more excited about them.  vowel e, blends of gl and cr. I gave her 3 minutes to do that 8 questions in the workbook to challenge it a bit more. mixed up her b and d in writing crib.  immediately saw it and fixed it. 

We had time for about 5 min of recorder, but will do more tomorrow. 

Here is some artwork from preschool. 
I think the ladybug in the grass is very clever!






Thursday, September 13, 2012

Thursday, Sept. 13

Off to a good start today.  I really do love mornings, it is my new favorite time of day! It is so peaceful and enjoyable to sit with a great cup of coffee and do school with Sylvie. I LOVE that we have faith studies everyday.  We have 2 days of the faith and life workbook and 2 days of 1st communion preparation each week.  

Today we started with the students prayer, read our Blessings everday book for Sept 13 and Sylvie looked up the chapter and verse from Romans. She is getting better at that. We read pages 22-33 in Little Acts of Grace.  Next, Sylvie wrote on the back of the Guardian Angel picture for Ellie that we will mail today in hopes she will think of her as she goes to kindergarten.  (I will let Sylvie pay for the postage with cash and count the change she gets as a real-world math lesson.  Tomorrow at co-op, Sylvie has to give a presentation on the martyred saint that she chose for a tombstone for the church harvest festival.  She chose St. Lucy who was a nun that died for Christ after being persecuted by a man that had wanted to marry her. 

Literature- Devotional Stories for Little Folks- chapter 4, Child of the Promise- a nice story about the family adopting a 3yr old girl.  Vocabulary words- covenant and adoption. 

Break time- applesauce and jump rope and a hair do.  

Math- Lesson 6- Got out the shape pattern blocks.  talked about color, named the shapes and made a pattern. Did a timed test of doubles to 5. she got 20/20 correct out of 25 available questions in 1 minute.  She stopped to erase 2 answers which slowed her down. Completed worksheet 6 together, she will do worksheet 6B at rest time independently. We still need to work on counting backwards a lot!  Worked on the time flashcards-  I added quarter past to the stack.  Worked on looking at the clock- writingboth the digital time and then the words quarter past or half past. 

Geography- North American animals.  Cut out pics from the NatGeo kids and glued them on her map she made last week. Read about Taylor from NYC and Taryn from Illinios. 








Sept 11 and 12

Tuesday, Luka and Elyse skipped pre-school and came with Sylvie and me to go up to the home where the Eisenmanns were staying while visiting here on vacation.  Jessie homeschools Joseph and Caleb kindergarten materials, so Luka joined them and Sylvie and I did her usual work.  We did math, reading, spelling, grammar and handwriting.  It was good to see the younger curriculum for Luka for whenever I bring him home. I wont get the letter book, it is way to easy.  The math is perfect for what he will need.  

Wednesday we only had about an hour of work time since we had milk pickup.  (Every other Weds we will have an hour, but still do reading, math facts etc in the car.)  In our hour at home, we did a spelling pre-test, worked on grammar by writing dictated sentences with the proper nouns. We did the science worksheet on levers and the kids also watched the Disney Imagineering video on levers and pulleys while I made lunch.  

In the car on the way to get our milk and groceries-we picked up some math facts to music at the library, and counted backward from one hundred.  Sylvie gave the farmer the money for the milk and helped me find what we needed at the store.  

Monday, September 10, 2012

Monday September 10th

Our first actual Monday and it feels great! 

Started at 9am with the student prayer/devotionals as usual. Looked up Acts 24:6 in the real bible.  talked about the footnotes and how to find ch and verse in the bible, looked at the table to contents and how to find the chapters by page number quickly. I will add this to our daily routine because it is good to know. 

Faith and Life- reviewed Ch 1 and did pop quiz:  Who made you?  Who is God?  Where is God?  Does God know everything?  I gave her a 95% which she was not happy with but I said we don't have to be perfect!  Read chapter 2 in Faith and Life about the trinity.   Great chapter! Vocab- Trinity and Mystery. 

Math- we did the actual lesson from Friday, so lesson 4.  I learned you can't do a math lesson in the parked car very well and all we actually accomplished on Friday was the worksheet. So today we did the lesson.  Adding doubles 1+1=2, 2+2+4 etc.  Used tiles to see how the piles are equal and even.  Also did LOTS of counting backwards and need to do more!  Worked on above, below, right and left and diagonal of numbers on our big hundred chart.  Used manipulative single cubes to hide numbers on the paper hundred chart to find what numbers I covered.  We reviewed time; Half past, writing digital time, saying verbal time, and writing all the different ways.  


10:30- some jump rope and veggies and hummus!

Sylvie chose to do Science next: Read about inclined planes and levers.  Read the page on the tools from Explore and learn book. We hammered a nail into a board and pulled it out, then moved the fulcrum of the hammer closer to the nail and felt that it was easier to pull out.  Also opened a can of peaches using the pull-top and talked about where was the fulcrum and lever was on the can lid.  Dug in the garden with a trowel to see how that tool made it easier to dig.  Finished at 11:15.  This was GREAT! 

Reading- read the poem Washing form the Book of Virtues on page 41.  Sylvie will do more reading of Winnie the Pooh classic text for rest time.  Chapters 8-10.  

Spelling- super easy words for her again- up and in words.  She did the worksheet and I offered her a choice to either write down all the rest of the words or a verbal quiz. she happily chose the verbal quiz and got them all right.  Worked on handwriting a bit on the worksheet. 


Grammar-  More practice on titles of respect.  Did the worksheet.   Finished all work by 11:30

Recorder-  After LOTS of struggling with the fingering last week, she somehow got it perfect right away today!! Go figure!  Read page 8 and learned note B and can play both well!  Way to go US!! 


Pics to follow! 


Reading about levers

working on the can pop-top

hammered in a nail and using the lever to pull it out.  tried moving the fulcrum to see where it was easiest to pull it out.


 



















Sunday, September 9, 2012

First Field Trip! September 8, 2012

Roman Civilization Day at Roper Mountain Science Center!

Weapons demonstration

glass plate making

explaining Roman food

Jesus' crown of thorns and crucifixion items

waiting for the military drilling demonstration

the Jersey cow that didn't want to be petted

grinding corn to feed the chickens

the blacksmiths making weapons (too hot out for the highschoolers to wear the costumes I guess!)

girl making an oar by shaving

Luka and his buddy Jacob whittling the dirt  with their tools =)

Elyse and her buddy Noah playing in the dirt

September 7th- First Day of Co-Op

We had a great first day at the Arch Angels Co-Op at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church.  (Lovingly called SEAS, for future reference!)  The kids also know it as "the church where we ride bikes with Hylands in the parking lot".  Here are some pics of what we did:


SEAS church
Kickball...and she made it to base!
Show and Tell (about her nursery room box from Aunt Mary Ann!)
Group photo


Thursday, September 6, 2012

3rd day of school- September 6th, 2012

Start 915- (ran to library to pick up books on Roman civilization that were on hold for our trip to Roper Mountain Super Saturday  this weekend)

Sept. 6 devotional, student prayer, worked on the Memorare and what the vocab words mean. 

Math- calendar, weather, counting forward and backward, did worksheet 3.  telling time to the hour. We also worked on math flashcards- half past, quarter past the hour and writing down the time. 

Reading- Devotional Stories ch. 2.  St. Edmund Campion - vocabulary- seminary, sacrifice, disguise

Grammar- more capital letters, we did page 4 instead of reviewing page 3, but now I see that the topic of capital letters relates to the next faith and life story.  lesson learned to not work ahead. 

Spelling- 15/15 words correctly on spelling test! 

Handwriting- Copying sentences neatly.  

Geography- colored and labeled map geography of North America. Read about Omar from Cancun and Nicole from L.A. in the D.K. children from around the world book.  These are very cool books!  

Pictures of our day today to follow!

Great day!

our supplemental geography book on kids from all over the world

our learning corner


my lesson planner- (don't know how to rotate the pic! sorry!)

my wealth of supplemental materials from my mom, Jan and Debbie. It's AWESOME!















Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Septmeber 5th, 2012

Wednesday, September 5th, 2012

2nd Day of School

Luka and Elyse got out of the car happily and went in with the car circle teacher!

Sylvia and I started at 9am with morning devotions, prayer for students.  

Faith and Life- Re-read chapter 1- Our Heavenly Father and did the activites in the workbook. Ended at 9:40.  She will do the coloring parts of the activity at rest time.

Math- filled in our meeting book (date, weather, days until...)   counted forward and backward with hundred chart.  Saw our big hundred chart numbers were out of order, fixed them.  Graphed  and analyzed family member birthdays.  Using the big hundred chart on the wall- found a number and then the one above, below to the right and left of it.  potty break 5 min!  practiced writing one less than and one more than a number. Did Math page 2A together.  finished at 1030.

Rest time work:  
  1. color Faith and Life text pictures,
  2. Math page 2B 
Had a yogurt and looked at this blog. Looked at Renee's blog. Learned what a blog is. 

Grammar; Did page 1 that we forgot to do yesterday. Took her 2 min after I read her the directions.  

Literature/Reading: The Book of Virtues by William Bennett. We read the story on pg 24 entitled Please under the self- discipline section.  Sylvie LOVED it and LOL and asked me to read it again. We will read it again tonight with Luka.

Spelling: Did page 3 more at and op words.  Took 5 min. Its 11:05

Map Skills- Map worksheet of a bedroom. learned right/left and near/far. 10 min

Time- did an entire deck of time cards, digital are easiest, clocks are harder.  only did the 1/4 marks so far in that deck. 10 min

Typing- Loves the Disney Lion King typing CDrom. Went straight to the game and got all right but 3 without looking at hands (after only one 15 min practice session last night!)  Very happy with herself.  Moved on to the next lesson!  (a ; s d)  

More to come later on today!  We have swimming lessons at 4pm.

Preschool update: Elyse asked to go pee on the potty and did!  Luka had a great day!  Kids watched Schoolhouse Rock- Grammar while I made lunch.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

September 4th, 2012

The first day of preschool and homeschool got off to a great start!  

Since Sylvie and I walked Luka and Elyse into school, we didn't get started with our work until about 9:15, but still accomplished a TON in the time we had. 

Started with the Student's Prayer and the Sept. 4th devotion page from Everyday Blessing- 365 simple devotions for the very young.

Faith and Life-  read Ch1. Our Heavenly Father- vocab words- heaven, soul, bible and learned how to read chapter and verse. 

Math-  Set up meeting book calendar- reviewed counting forwards, backwards, 100's chart, weather graph, right and left.   We need to work on counting backwards!

Spelling-  Short vowels a and o.  did the workbook page and wrote words in her spelling  journal too.  This was super easy for her. 

We took a 10 minute or so break to have a muffin and jump rope for a while. 

Grammar-  Worked on capital letters workbook pages

Science- Read the preface of Behold and See and read assigned pages 1-6 about tools. 

Reading- Devotional Stories for Little Folks-  read Ch 1 and answered the critical thinking questions.

Handwriting- Did week 1, lesson 1.  Handwriting is still not her best skill.  We tried to hold the pencil correctly- pinch it-  and had to go back to the way mommy holds it.  bummer.  did a lot of erasing and trying again but a lot of encouragement too!  

Music-  Recorder!  We worked on the first 3 pages in the book: about your recorder, how to hold your recorder and playing a note.  It was tricky because her hands are small and have to stretch to cover all the holes.  She got it a few times, but will definitely need work! We ended up taking off the foot joint that had the last two holes for her pinky.  She really cant reach that yet and it sounded the same without it anyway.   

No news from preschool, so that is good news I guess?  

For rest time, Elyse napped in her crib and the on the floor also.  Luka read 3 cat in the hat books.  His reading is really coming along and I know he is excited about it!  Sylvie read Chs 1-4 of the original Winnie the Pooh, arranged our magnet calendar, and then she and Luka both put together the big Hundred Chart from Grandma- Even numbers red, Odd numbers white.  

After dinner we had family bible story/devotional time.  Reread the Sept 4th page and also the Little Folks book from Sylvie's reading time for Luka to enjoy and learn from.  Read about the annunciation and also about Elizabeth, Zechariah and John the Baptist.  

Then Sylvie and I went to the library. We found a Timon and Puumba typing Cdrom, one on listening skills and a Schoolhouse Rock DVD on Grammar.  Sylvie learned how to use the library computer to look up books and how to find a non fiction book with the dewey decimal system if that is what it is still called! I'll have to find out! =)  

Great day all around!

Looking forward to tomorrow!