What a perfect day.....The boys LOVE Magic School Bus (they watch it and rewatch episodes each morning without fail), so I order the Chapter books thru Scholastic (and for the most part I hate Scholastic.......the rampant commericalism....I could go on for hours) and even though they are so OBVIOUSLY (to me) teaching, but the kids love the adventures, and they do pick up on the info imparted by the nutty Friz. So we read MSB "The giant germ" then look at Usborne's "the complete book of the microscope" full of awesome pics of germs and microbes and hair in knots and so on....and then tried to find our sea monkeys to grow (where the HECK did we put that kit???) Instead found a wooden map of the world with little flags to place in holes beside the right country that the kids have never seen - A attacked it with vigour....using another one of my books with country names and flags - so he had to find the country in the book, alphabetically, look what the flag looked like, then find it's flag out of the pile and put it in the right spot.....all from my kid who can't read.....let alone figure out "alphabetical order" Then we read more about Spiders - H loves them - Did you know there is a spider that lives underwater??? It makes a web, puts air bubbles in it and then uses that space to eat it's prey....All this was interspersed with Lionel Trains, walks outside with Daddy, piano practice, webkinz, treadmill running and various other random activities.....a perfect day, I wish each one could be like this......
Ok it wasn't totally perfect, H had a bad night and was INCREDIBLY screamy/weepy/waily all day....so hard to deal with and nothing that can be done.......
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