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Instead of starting with Math today, I first asked Babe to draw a propeller to see if she remembered what she learned yesterday. She did.

After she drew arrows on it to show me how it spins, we jumped into Math.

Today Babe was officially introduced to Venn diagrams. But before I had her put the two circles together, I had two separate circles on the living room floor and had her sort the shapes into red shapes and rectangles.

When she was done with that step, I then showed her how the two circles go together to form a middle section.

Then I asked her what shapes would go in that middle section.

"Red rectangles!!!"

Awesome!

Next, I asked her to go grab ten stuffed animals from her room. She lined them all up on the couch and as I was staring at them trying to figure out how to sort these using a Venn diagram, Babe witnessed me struggle. I honestly had no idea how to ask her to sort them. She started making suggestions.

"What about boys in one circle and girls on the other?"

"Well, what would go in the middle?"

"Oh..."

I thought hard. I was so embarrassed. So I gave her the reigns.

"OK Babe, you try to figure out how to sort them."

She thought for not even two minutes.

"OK, I'm going to put warm weather animals in this circle and cold weather animals in this circle. Then in the middle, if they can live in both, that's what will go there."

Um.

I almost walked out the door to go find her a college application to fill out.

WHAT THE HECK!? HOW DID SHE DO THAT?!

I ran over and gave her a hug and told her that was the most brilliant idea ever in the history of the world.

Then I let her do her work.

When the animals were put away, we continued the Math lesson on orally explaining how to come to a solution. It was hard for Babe to not just answer, "I know the answer is correct because I already knew that." But when she's been sorting and classifying things for years, it's hard for her to revert back to actually explaining why a hotdog doesn't fit into a group with apples, oranges, and bananas. But I made her. haha. And Math lasted a full hour today.

Since we are trying to fight off illness in time for Easter, we stayed home from the library today and I replaced bin work with activities that everyone participated in, including an "H is for Helicopter" worksheet that Bubs ROCKED at!

Look at those perfect H's!

After they all completed their sheet, I brought out the sand for them to observe and play in dry and wet. In the meantime, Babe completed her Science lesson on sand, built her house, and then started her experiment on frozen sand.

Her predictions for the sand experiment (placing wet and dry sand in the freezer over night) are:

Wet Sand - "I think it will freeze all of it."

Dry Sand - "I think it will only freeze the top of it."

We will observe tomorrow!

While cleaning up the activity, Babe stopped dead in her tracks and screamed.

"LOOK AT THE ELEPHANT!"

While Bubs and Z ran to the window, I was laughing so hard at what Babe was pointing at.

Hysterical.

After lunch, I had Babe observe the progress of her Spring Experiment and we were both so excited at the results so far.

Believe it or not, the sand cup is producing the tallest plant right now! That little bean seed had no issue pushing through that compacted sand like I thought it would! We were all wrong with our predictions. And Babe even took notice that the seeds in the rocks aren't growing "because the water just pours right out the bottom when I pour it in."

Pretty cool that she made the connection on her own.

After watering, I told her that we would start recording the heights of each plant tomorrow.

We went back inside and did her Reading Comp. lesson on cause and effect. After breezing throughout that, we attempted the Writing lesson but Babe was ready for the day to end, so I skipped the lesson and had her catch up on Checkpoints.

She relaxed the rest of the day in front of PBS Kids, but about an hour after ending our lesson, I told Babe to go check on her seeds again because I noticed something very interesting!

Look at that bean seed grow in that sand! It's first leaf is already out! Seriously, not even an hour after watering! Babe had the cutest little gasp when she noticed, too!

And we ended Thursday on that fun note!