We started our day today with a little Kinect to get our blood flowing following morning chores. Taz beat me at boxing 3 rounds to 1. Her brother was helping her. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. :P

Then during music practice, Taz requested that the boys play something she could sing along with, so they did a duet of "Twinkle Twinkle" while she sang to her "friends" (three feathered birdies from our badminton set--that child cracks me up). No, it's not Crawdad's birthday. He just likes the hat. :P

  Then the boys started independent work (to the right, we have Jigsaw Jones and a spoonful of peanut butter :P), while Taz and I worked through a few lessons in Singapore Earlybird A, a lesson in phonics, and learned that pigs like mud, eat corn (among other things), and have piglets.

A little math.

Making a letter page for phonics.

Then Taz moved on to counting practice and dot paint while I worked with the boys. Those are palm trees with a blue, sunny sky that she's working on below. :)

Spelling and tacos. :)

Notebooking and tacos. :)

 Left we have Cub's latest science quiz (actually from Friday), on which he barely scraped by to make his goal of a 90. If he makes a 90 or above on all the quizzes, I don't make him take the chapter test. He cut it close on this one. :)

Below, we have what was absolutely the funniest part of our day. Cub and I were practicing identifying direct and indirect objects. I was reading the sentence, and he was identifying the part of speech orally. I obviously needed more sleep/caffeine/focus/something because I read the words "two-edged sword" as "two-legged sword." Cub blinked at me, and then repeated what I had said. I got so tickled, I had tears. He went the creative route to take it one step further. Below, we have a pic of "And the Sword Ran Away with the Shield."

Crawdad working on a science notebooking page for Bigger.

A chart assigned in Bigger's history about goods vs services. I don't think it being period specific was a requirement. At least I hope not. There's a computer tech in there. Giggle.

 

 

The results of tonight's boxing class. And this would be why they call it a contact sport. :)