17-18

Monday: Watched two short video clips from Discovery Education about clouds and the water cycle. (We get this service free through our public television station) Then read India ABCs by Marcie Aboff, The Children of India by Jules Hermes, and Savitri by Aaron Shepard. E had a spelling lesson. After dinner she presented her interpretive dance of the life cycle of a flower, which was fun. That night after the kids were asleep, I put up a Weather Station in the hall. Right now it has a page for each day, with little pictures of the three main types of clouds (cirrus, cumulus and stratus) and the different types of precipitation and weather conditions (wind, snow, rain and sun). The pictures are velcro-backed so they can stick to the pages for each day, and the kids can put up the weather conditions for that day. We'll be adding to it as we get more into weather.

This morning (after playing with the new weather station!) we read We Hate Rain! by James Stevenson and Where Do Puddles Go? by Fay Robinson (I should say that E had already read this book and yesterday after viewing the videos, she ran into the kitchen to show T how to prove that air has water vapor in it (put a glass of ice water out and watch the condensation form). Then Water, Water Everywhere by Mark J. Rauzon and The Cloud Book by Tomie de Paola. After this we went outside to look at the clouds (and hang up laundry). The kids were having so much fun outside (our first beautiful fall day) so I let them play for a while. When they came back in, we got back to India with This is My Faith: Hinduism by Holly Wallace, Sacred River by Ted Lewin, and The Monkey and the Crocodile by Paul Galdone. We had a spelling lesson and a math lesson after lunch and then we went to the library. I also gave E Jinny Johnson's Maps and Mapping to read on her own.