It seems like so much time has passed since I last blogged. Sometimes illness can distort one's sense of time. Thank you for the e-mails and inquiries and most of all thank you for having very flexable children. I heard positive reports from Holly and Michi about the children and their behavior. While I'm not surprised, I am very pleased and proud of my little friends.
We jumped right back into our letter study and reviewed words beginning with F today. Several very tricky words came up that actually start with TH but are often pronounced as F by little mouths. I'm so glad Victoria wasn't doing a tour while we practiced putting our teeth on our lower lip for F and sticking our tongues betweeen our teeth for TH. Can you imagine how silly I looked while exaggerating these mouth positions?
I read "Farmer Brown Goes Round and Round" today and we discussed what we might see ona a farm. The Jeter's Farm is a working farm and last year had goats, pigs and a calf in pens for the children to pet and feed. We're hoping to see them this year.
Before rest I read "Thump, Quack, Moo" which is one book in a series of funny Farmer Brown books whose farm is really run by his very clever animals. This is a different farmer from the first book we read today and after some discussion I told the children it was his cousin - hence, the same last name.
By rest time the sky was dark and we had some droopy eyes. As I prepared them for sleep I turned on the CD player only to discover it is HISTORY! It must have played one too many children's songs and died in my absence. I dusted off my record player and told the children I would play a record by my favorite composer when the question came. "What's a record?" Xan asked. I felt three new grey hairs spring up on my scalp and related that we used to listen to these huge disks called records. I pulled one out and before their unimpressed eyes played it. Let's blame their sleepiness for not being in complete awe. After all, who really cares how big the recorded device is as long as it plays?
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