What school was like at our house today ...

We started out with Phonics - Ethan was very excited because on Monday he gets a new reader. Today he read Jane's Jet. You'll be happy to know that Jake the Rat saves the jet from crashing.

Next was Handwriting, his least favorite subject. He wrote, "Jack had jam on a bun." We also discussed why he can't take Yellow to the dentist, not even to just go down the slide in the waiting room. That in turn led to a discussion about seeing eye dogs (the only dogs usually allowed in businesses) and why dogs don't like slides. And why we couldn't put Yellow in a box or otherwise force him up a slide, even if we were sure he'd like it once he went down. All of which was more educational than the numerous versions of "I see London, I see France, I see (insert name here)'s underpants!" that he sang. Repeatedly. I would include some of his versions, but really, Luke doesn't have purple and pink flowered underpants, and I don't think he'd want me blogging about it if he did.

Anyway, you can see that any excuse is a good excuse to delay actually DOING any handwriting.

After a break, we moved on to Math. Math took place in a space ship:





Now, to the layman, that may look like a bench backed up to a couch and a chair with a lid and a baby's toy phone on it. I have it on good authority that it's a space ship, though - complete with a talking control panel.

Then we curled up on the couch with Science (how airplanes fly), History (more about Paul Revere - Ethan was very taken with his story when we studied the Revolutionary War), and Bible.

And that was the end of school, unless you count the hours he spent playing outside in our beautiful weather today!