'12/13 Week 32 Day 1

Earth Day! We did our Earth Day part yesterday. Saara helped me to replant some miniature roses and Andrew was a great help planting a crape myrtle bush. For both projects we used our very own compost! All the kitchen scraps, garden left overs, other clippings and things have finally (after three years) started to yield wonderful rich compost. Although we have talked about plants turning back into soil a bit, Saara seemed to have a real 'light bulb' moment when she saw the compost soil. 

We worked hard yesterday and we worked hard today. In fact, I almost lost my almost-back voice again. That is how much reading I did. It was all good though and all of it was interesting material. 
Our LA class was probably the most intense today. We read a long portion from the "Wheel on the School" and discussed the story even longer. Also, Andrew started  a new book in his reading practice. And he got a new portion of spelling words. We finished our class with an introduction to possessive nouns. Again, I found a very good material on Teachers Pay Teachers website.

Language Arts. Both children had activities that required cutting and pasting. Saara had to group words that go together ...

... and Andrew had to group words that go together, too.