Today we started off with a field trip! I contacted one of my friends who lives in the neighborhood and she said we were more than welcome to drop by her farm and visit with the animals!
So early morning, we hopped on our bikes and headed down the street. The kids were so excited. We saw tons of horses, tons of chickens, two baby chicks that just hatched, ponies, a donkey, and a huge (tame) wild hog that sits on command! They even got to collect the eggs from the hen nests and ride a horse!
We all had a blast. We took our four collected eggs home and had breakfast for lunch today! Yum!
After lunch, EVERYONE napped, me included. Apparently the bike ride and excitement knocked us all out.
After we all woke up and came to, I had Babe do a bit of Math to make sure she was solid in subtraction. I know she is very good at it, but we are finishing up Chapter 4 this week and I just need to know she's good.
I gave her a homemade worksheet of some pretty challenging math, but I've been working with her in understanding that all numbers are connected in some way - how a subtraction sentence can be read as an addition sentence backwards, etc. I think this will get her very natural at Math, even more so than she already is.
One the left side of the sheet, I wrote nine groups of three numbers. On the right side, I had Babe use each group of three numbers to write one addition sentence and one subtraction sentence. She did very, very well at this. I was impressed. And so was she. I told her it was "hard Math" and her smile got really big.
And with that, we ended the day. Tomorrow will be another light day and Friday is another big field trip! Stay tuned!
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