raindrops on roses
It is one rainy, rainy day here in Florida land. Appropriate though, that this just happens to be our weather week. Today we learned about – yup, rain. We talked about how rain was made, the water cycle, the different kind of clouds – her favorite was cumulonimbus, drew a weather observation in our special weather journal for this week, watched a video on youtube of a Cherokee Rain Dance ceremony, talked about how they would wear feathers to symbolize wind and turqoise to symbolize water, and then we made our own rainsticks. Whew! Dill really liked the music they played in the video and kept going over to the computer and replaying it while we did our crafts. They were VERY excited for it to stop raining so they could go outside and look at the clouds, and it did – for about half an hour, then it started raining again.
Dill really seemed to get the water cycle. She kept talking about how after it rained she was going to have a great big river to play in, lol. So when Pickle opened the door during a rather heavy downpour and saw our yard, they thought we really WERE going to have a river in our front yard, haha. Imagine their disappointment when I told them it wouldn’t last.
Words on the Imaginary Vocab List for This Week:
Meteorologist
Cirrus
Cumulus
Stratus
Cumulonimbus
Precipitation
After that we had lunch (leftover spaghetti and carrots). I’ve got dinner in the crockpot so I don’t have to worry about cooking, woot! Then we copped a squat on the couch and had reading time. Dill did two more sections in her reading unit, got to put another star on the chart for reading a new Hop Book, and Pickle listened and played with play dough. She’s making so much progress with reading I can hardly believe it. I’m just stunned and crazy happy about it. 
For read-aloud time, I’m reading All the Money in the World, by Bill Brittain. I picked up a dozen of small-ish chapter books at our local Goodwill store the other day and this was one of them. I actually remember getting to go to a “Young Author’s Conference” when I was in elementary school and Bill Brittain just happened to be there that year, signing his book. I don’t still have the book, unfortunately, but when I saw this in the Goodwill store, I immediately picked it up. Among the others were Pippi Longstocking, Chocolate Touch, Wizard of Oz, and the Family Under the Bridge. When I asked Dill what she wanted to read, she picked
- All The Money In the World.
For Math, we continued working in our Singapore math workbook, skipping around to pages I feel she’s ready to do. She did four addition pages all by herself this evening; I’m very proud. 
