Five. Three. Two.

Until Babe does anything different in Math, I will not be describing her Math lessons. Yesterday was the first day of "review" of her numbers and Calvert goes up to 31. I believe in a couple weeks, we will be starting money or time, so I will go back to describing her Math lessons then. Until then, she will be making sets of specified numbers with connecting cubes and learning how to spell each number.

This week also seems to be a review in Reading Comprehension of her books from last week, so today we reviewed "Feast For 10." She remembered nearly all the food items the family bought. She had a worksheet to complete, which she did, then we ended Reading Comp.

Today's community helper was teachers. I asked Babe what teachers are, and she pointed at me! Cute. I asked her if she was a teacher.

"How can I be a teacher? I'm not 20 years old!"

Ha! So I told her that she actually was a teacher, and her little sister was a teacher too! She looked so perplexed. I explained to her that anyone can be a teacher, and told her that she teaches Bubs things, and Bubs teaches Z things, and vice versa! I explained to her that teachers don't only teach people how to read and write like I do, but that teachers teach people how to behave or how to do something.

"Like I teach (Bubs) how to ride her scooter better?"

"Exactly!"

She seemed to feel really good after that, and I brought her to the couch so I could read her one of my favorite books. It was a Christmas present to me last year and it features a dog named Rocket, just like one of my dogs is named Rocket. The book is "How Rocket Learned to Read" by Tad Hills. It's about the title character being taught how to read by his teacher, a little yellow bird! Babe loved the story and couldn't get enough of it. It doesn't help that the illustrations are just so dang cute.

I shut the book and told Babe that she was going to be a teacher for the next ten minutes. I wanted her to pick a letter that isn't in Bubs's name, and teacher her how to write it. She picked the letter Z, and Bubs ever-so-willingly sat in front of Babe with a pencil and a sheet of paper. After minutes, Babe was starting to get frustrated so I stepped in and told her that some students learn differently than her, and that she had to figure out a way to make it very easy for Bubs to know where the lines go.

Babe made a dot-to-dot (BRILLIANT!) but I told her to only do two dots at a time. Bubs was starting to get it, and when she did, Babe ran to her room to get a sticker.

"Good job! Let's try the letter J!"

Ha! This one was much easier for Bubs to write, and once she did, Babe ran to her room again with her hands full of stickers to give her sister.

"PHEW! It's hard teaching!"

If only she knew...haha.

Outside play time and lunch were on the schedule next. Then came Science.

In Science, Babe measured the length of various pieces of ribbon using conventional and non-conventional ways.

First though, I had her classify the ribbons by color. She did, and I showed her how to make a graph with the information. She was freakishly good at making the graph and this is the very first one she's made on her own. I didn't know what to think!

Next I had her choose one piece of yarn of each color and measure each one with crayons, then each one again with inches. She made a graph with her new information. Again, done very, very well!

She was dying to measure me in crayons, but we did so much today that we ran out of time before dance. So I told her we'd do it tomorrow.

Until then, have a great night!