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for narration we had the story of Arachne from Amery's _Greek Myths for Young Children_, then I read some more chapters out of the D'Aulaire's Greek Myths book--Poseidon and the births of Artemis and Apollo. Then we read Shooting Stars and The Moon Seems to Change both by Franklyn M. Branley. We went online and watched an animation of the moon phases changing as the moon orbits the earth, an animation of a lunar eclipse, and an animation demonstrating the impact theory of the moon's formation. I gave her a page of pictures of the moon's phases (from this site) and we looked up what the moon looked like on her birthday and on T's. Then I let them watch Peep and wonder of wonders, it was about how the moon seems to change in the sky! My homeschooling luck is so good this week! I wish it would work on the lottery...Anyway, after lunch E did her math review--she does well but doesn't pay enough attention to which operation the problem is presenting--if the first one in a series is addition, she adds them all, even the subtraction problems. And I'm not sure but what she might need some more regrouping practice--we'll see if the book presents any more of that or not. We finished making the paper models of the Platonic bodies (well, I put together the dodecahedron and the icosahedron--but she did the pyramid, cube, and octahedron all by herself). Now she is finishing her homework from the Habitat class at the zoo, and then I think I might have her work on her first Gee Art lesson.