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Yesterday E had her piano lesson and then we went to the library for storytime. I let them have the rest of the day for free play and reading.

Today was Jackie Robinson's birthday, so I read Teammates by Peter Golenbock. T requested You Are My I Love You by Maryann K. Cusimano, which is such a sweet, profound book. Then another chapter of James Cross Giblin's The Mystery of the Mammoth Bones, and then Paul Goble's The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses and Buffalo by Emilie U. Lepthien. Today's poetic form was the quatrain, which we read about in A Kick in the Head by Paul B. Janeczko. The example in the book was from William Blake:

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

She traced it out on her handwriting worksheet. The only word she had to define was symmetry. Now she is doing her math, and then we're done.