(last week, i was out enjoying the first signs of spring and found this beautiful dried out wild carrot...i kid you not...the flower head was as big as a dinner plate!)

here's a peak at what we did in our homeschool today:

1. math.. dividing fractions, dividing mixed fractions, division story problem fractions.
2. since i knew nothing about the story of the alamo, i decided to use it as our read aloud, today. never knew davey crockett died at the alamo.
3. i brought out a tray of a dozen different toys and objects. i had tommie write a good sentence with good adjectives for each object. truth is, he was being lazy and using the word "big" to often....so I handed him a thesaurus.
4. tommie read one chaper of Li Lun to me out loud. he still complained about it.. we both learned about bird nest soup and how the chinese collect the bird nests from swifts in caves. it's a delicacy in asia.
5. lunch. salads and wheat thins and grape juice with fiber.
6. i read several chapters in the book of Mark out loud... all about Peter, the roosters crowing twice, the crucifixion, and mary magdelene...
7. spelling (words taken from Li Lun)
8. dictation one paragraph from Li Lun- punctuation was 100%...spelling- missed three words...will review them tomorrow and friday.
9. discussed and did hand's on geography, with china and four different hemispheres.
10. watched the u.s. ship being hijacked on CNN. brad explained several facets of the ordeal. located somilia on the map.
11. tommie did silent reading on "electricity" and did a reading comp worksheet. also covered atoms, neutrons, protons and electrons.
12. i read one chapter in our read aloud, from the mixed up files of mrs. basil e. frankweiler.

well, my hot shower is calling for me more tomorrow...