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Monday we had a really good day, which is a relief because it looks like the rest of the week is mostly a wash.

Monday: read You Wouldn't Want to Be an American Pioneer! by Jacqueline Morley, then did a bunch of experiments/fooling around with electrical circuits, wires, bulbs, making a nail into an electro-magnet, and so forth. Got some of the ideas from All About Electricity by Melvin Berger (note to self--a stack of nickels and pennies won't make a crude battery any more...not enough real nickel or copper in them!) and Experiment With Magnets and Electricity by Margaret Whalley. Spelling and math, then read Count Your Way Through China by Jim Haskins, The Seven Chinese Brothers by Margaret Mahy, The Cloudmakers by James Rumford, and The Empress and the Silkworm by Lily Toy Hong.

Tuesday my parents were taking care of my niece who had the day off from school for Veteran's Day and they absconded with E to keep her company. So I took T to see the model train exhibit at the hands-on museum and we played with a friend of his in the neighborhood.

Wednesday was piano lesson and library day, and we went to have T's "school picture" done.

Today I'm feeling under the weather, so instead of school I think we'll clean our rooms and clean house and play until it's time to go to Grandma's house for E's sewing lesson.