School Details

I began reading to Lee from a book titled, Jesus, Come to Me. He is preparing for his First Holy Communion; the pastoral associate at church gave us the book to help prepare. Today's subject was about believing without seeing. How appropriate since yesterday's gospel was about Doubting Thomas. Lee even remembered the gospel reading and was able to relate that to today's reading in the new book. I worked on letter sounds and rhyming words with Lou (who desperately wants to learn to read, NOW). Grace read horse encyclopedias to Ray all morning. He just kept pointing and yelling, "horsey, horsey". Grace and Lee both did math and then planted a couple of bean seeds. They placed one container in the dark and the other in the sunniest window. They will measure the growth and plot the info on a graph throughout the next couple of weeks. Lou and Ray went outside to swing and play on the sandpile while Grace and Lee did Spelling. I quizzed them on today's words and then they headed outside to load up the 4-wheeler with their traps. Spring trapping season is in full gear now and they plan to control the population on the cranberry marsh. After lunch, Ray napped, the kids made grandpa's birthday banner and I went to town to pick up a few things. Dad continued laying out pipe. Once home it was back to setting traps for the older two, while Ray and Lou helped with washing fruit and taking things to the van.