Wed--Fri. Oct 15-17

--continued to read aloud: Prince Caspian
--practiced mult and div facts daily
--boys practiced piano, guitar, magic tricks
--SD went running (twice?)
--boys continued reading Harry Potter series
--Mom gave Chicklet reading lessons
--watched the continuing construction project in basement--framing, electrical, drywalling

Thursday--enrichment classes X 4 hrs.

Friday--attended The Legend of Pocahontas musical and cast party afterwards

--read Catherine Vos Story Bible
--read Ch. 3 & 4 of Prince Caspian
--reviewed X facts and opposite division facts, added new X facts; reviewed multi-digit X and long division with 2-digit divisor
--Carthage College PE classes--one hour (SD played volleyball; Chicklet and Mr. D played gym games; B3 had a preschool "class" taught by a big sister
--we discussed Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH some more (study guide): Was technology a good or a bad thing in the book? Who were the bad guys and why/good guys and why? (complex plot with several ways of looking at these questions)
--theater classes X 2 hrs.
--SD practiced guitar
--Mr. D practiced piano
--both boys read Harry Potter books
--watched a Harry Potter movie
--read another chapter of The Endless Steppe
--SD practiced guitar again

On Sunday, SD attended a ceremony for a new Eagle Scout (friend of Blondechick's) and learned what all is required.

Monday evening an exchange student from Germany came over and hung out with SD; they talked music, bands, guitar, cultural differences, etc.

--we started Prince Caspian (including Chicklet)
--read Catherine Vos Bible Storybook
--practiced multiplication facts and their reverse (division)
--the boys practiced magic lessons
--SD practiced guitar
--MR. D practiced piano, had a lesson
--Mom gave Chicklet a reading lesson and we did 9 pgs in her workbook (Get Ready for the Code)
--Chicklet and B3 watched Eyewitness: Cat
--Mr. D played Axis and Allies with himself (and with a friend a week ago)
--SD went for a 3-mile run

(on the weekend) we watched Speed Racer, looked up the old cartoon on Wikipedia and talked about Japanese anime

The Usual.

Except we finished Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, discussed it and then the boys each wrote a paragraph about it.

And Mr. D practiced sketching, and sketching, and sketching...

Today we had enrichment classes--see last Thursday.

The boys are really excited about sketching--came home and practiced drawing human faces.

Chicklet painted a flower pot; she and B3 made a Noah booklet and craft pg.

--we practiced mult. and subt. facts

--Mom read picture books from library: Probuditi (about a magician/hypnotist and two boys who hypnotize their little sister) and The Piano Man (about a silent movie piano player)

--Mom gave Chicklet a reading lesson

--Mr. D practiced piano

--both boys practiced magic tricks

--read Catherine Vos Story Bible
--read Mrs. Frisby
--practiced X facts with flash cards
--practiced problems with missing addends, factors, subtrahends, minuends
--Chicklet and B3 watched You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
--boys practiced magic tricks with new book
--boys finished paragraphs from yesterday
--Mr. D and Mom edited two of his paragraphs from before
--we published one here and one here
--SD practiced keyboarding first half of his essay on foam swords
--Mom gave Chicklet reading lesson
--SD and Mr. D babysat for the M's, performed magic tricks for them! and played Axis and Allies with P
--Chicklet and B3 watched Eyewitness: Horse
--Mr. D practiced piano

A Visit to the Water Treatment Plant

Today I went to the water treatment plant. There were a lot of machines. Some were cleaning; some were sending clean water through pipes to the city. What was really cool was the sand filtering room. One of those things that isn't cool but interesting is the laboratory. The control room looked like the inside of a starship! I learned lots of things I didn't even know.

by Mr. Diner