Back to school again....

Today we had a good day, beginning with a prayer of thanks and hopes for the new day, a verse and a candle. We started with math review, Ami is doing well with her understanding of the processes, very well actually. We do division by putting numbers of jewels into "Count Divide's" house, dividing up the the jewels for any number of princesses coming to the King's palace for dinner. Today Noah told me that if we had 12 jewels, and 3 princesses came to dinner, then each princess would get 4 jewels. He was so full of light in his face when he figured it out, and he did it in his head without counting! I didn't ask him, he just told me when I was asking Ami. He was very proud of himself :-) We then tossed a ball back and forth to do the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.

After math review we did some form drawing,  and then sang Shalom Aleichem (hebrew) before lunch.

After lunch we took a walk to the mailbox, and then to the bird feeders to toss some seeds on the ground for the wild birds. We sang a new song about feeding birds, which we later began learning to play on the recorder. After tossing seeds, we went for a walk around the pond and stomped up ice in the yard. The most fun we had was discovering the amazing--absolutely amazing-- sound ice makes when you toss it across the surface of the pond (like a frisbee). It sings! It's like bird song, but synthesized, or something. I have never heard anything like it before. We all REALLY enjoyed that til our fingers were frozen. Then it was time to head inside.

When we came in we practiced our new bird feeding song on the recorder. Ami is really picking new songs up very easily lately.

All throughout the day she is delving into new drawings and it is so difficult for me to draw her away from them. I want to let her finish, but also to stay on track somewhat. So she puts them aside, reluctantly, and we move on to the next....right now she is into drawing really detailed and elaborate landscapes filled with dinosaurs, in the air, in the sea, fighting each other, munching grasses, feeding young, sniffing flowers.....

After recorder we painted snow/blue sky/ice rock salt watercolor paintings.

Eden used the potty today! She peed on the potty and I couldnt be happier! 2010 is gonna be a good year....

Today we finished our day with closing verse, after reading aloud to the kids and Ami reading one story aloud to us.

I feel like everything came together nicely today and hope everyday can go like this one did.