Recap from last week

Played Quidditch over and over and over again.

Played Settlers of Catan. I won. :)

Read Eragon every day.

Played Hang Man with Caitrin. Great game wherein she works hard to think of sentences of words she can actually spell. Then she can't see the words and has to hold them in her head as I make guesses and then put the letters in the right slots. It was hard work for her but she was so happy playing it because we had a little dry erase board with a new marker and it was fun to write on. This worked for writing and reading this week.

Math: Jacob kept up with his work, Liam did not and Caitrin played lots of math-y games with me.

We had a wonderful teatime where we read "Jabberwocky" and defined the nonsense words. Jacob is working on a dictionary to be followed by a poem writing exercise.

Caitrin watched "The Three Musketeers" Disney version. They use Operas to write the songs for that cartoon movie. Got such a kick out of it!

We continue to do our study of the outdoor leaves.

She and I did her Blood and Guts homework (silly stuff that she can't possibly understand yet, but we did it all the same). She's on a knitting kick and a beading kick. Love to see her do crafts like Johannah and Noah did at her age.

Liam spent too much time on the computer. He is happy to play games and to go on walks and to listen to read alouds. He is doing some writing (copywork) and enjoys reading poetry. But he is having trouble doing anything more routine than that.

That's it for now.