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We felt like taking last Friday off, so we did!

Today is Jackson Pollock's birthday, so I started out by reading Jackson Pollock by Mike Venezia, and then I showed E the picture of Lee Krasner, his wife, which is on the "women doing cool things" collage I made for her when she was 3. Then, since yesterday was Mozart's birthday, I read Ann Rachlin's Mozart, and Mike Venezia's Mozart, and we listened (and danced and sang to) "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik". To kick off studying the Plains Indians, I read Bonnie Shemie's Houses of Hide and Earth and Powwow by George Ancona. Then E did her math while listening to some more Mozart. After lunch we looked at the poem she memorized last week: "I Do Not Like the Rat!" by Jack Prelutsky. She picked out the end rhymes and I pointed out the internal rhymes to her. Then we read about couplets in Paul B. Janeczko's A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms, and I found some couplets in a book of poetry and showed her how they are often used almost like a punch line to a poem. Now we are going to Dance and Tumbling for the last time.