18 January

Another late start day. Next week we've really got to get back to our morning routine. Gratefully, I woke up feeling better this morning than I have felt in a long time; taking the antibiotic (and the ibuprofen) was definetely the right decision. The ice is melting and the temps are rising. The Professor whipped up a dozen Brown Sugar Oatmeal muffins, sliced some apples, poured some milk and we called it breakfast.

School was really humming today as we had Little Queen with us. Whew! Makes it so much more, umm... interesting.

Firstborn:

• Latin lesson 7 presents new challenges. We reviewed the grammar material and he did part of the worksheet
• Oral narration of Chapter 1 of The Lost Baron
• Addressed several Christmas thank you cards
• Tallied scores from Rosebud and my Yahtzee game
• Worked on music theory

Sunshine:

• Read and orally narrated Reading 3 from Just Like Mary
• Completed perfectly MUS 21E, so she needn't do 21F
• Reviewed with me subtraction with 9s using flashcards (we'll continue this before starting a new lesson)
• Completed the hundreds board
• Read through an old reader, just for fun
• Practiced her memorized poem; the selection is extremely short, but we are concentrating more on her presentation than the actual poem (posture, nervous habits, eye contact, etc). Nonetheless, we did discuss the meaning of the poem for a couple of minutes today.

Rosebud:

• Wrote more words with moveable alphabet
• Worked with red & blue rods (doing quite well with this!)
• Beat me at Yahtzee. This time she wrote her own scores for the first time
• Worked on a tangram puzzle

Little Queen:

• Ring stacker
• Matreshkas
• Shape sorter
• "Observed" everyone else's work
• Shook the dice for me in Yahtzee

During lunch I read the Mass readings of the day and we discussed them. Firstborn read Chapter 2 of the The Lost Baron during QT and will orally narrate it tomorrow.

In the afternoon, Firstborn & Rosebud very enthusiastically helped chop vegetables and herbs for the White Bean Soup. (We harvested rosemary and parsley from the garden; the parsley looks like it may have suffered more than a bit from the freezing weather.) Then all three older children folded a ton of laundry (still catching up from the holidays) while I read aloud almost the remainder of Schoolhouse in the Woods.

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Lunch: Nachos and salad
Dinner: White Bean Soup w/ Pasta & Rosemary Oil (except I forgot the pasta...oops!) and Turkey & bacon wraps with Raspberry Chipotle sauce. Christmas candies for dessert. The soup was met with mixed reviews; the wraps were a hit!