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Friday: art class


Monday-Wednesday: we took a "field trip" down to the Gulf Shores, where we camped for two nights, played on the beach, observed the banding of migratory birds (E got to hold and release a hummingbird!), visited (and climbed around on) the "Mystery Ship" washed ashore by Hurricane Ike, and toured Fort Morgan. E fished (and was very very excited when she caught one all by herself) and we had a great time. On the way down and back she read 4 books: The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck, Molly Pitcher: Young Patriot by Augusta Stevenson, The Mystery at Mt. Fuji by Carole Marsh, and Facing the Lion by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton.

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Wednesday: E had a really great piano lesson, then we went to Grandma and Grandpa's house. In the afternoon she read Toliver's Secret by Esther Wood Brady.

Today: We've added a temperature component to the Weather Station--Alan hung a big themometer outside our office window, underneath the eaves, so it's out of direct sunlight. We are graphing the morning and mid-day temperatures with bar graphs, and we'll overlay a line graph of the day's recorded highs as reported in the paper. Read Heat Wave at Mud Flat by James Stevenson, Feel the Wind by Arthur Dorros, and Twister by Darleen Bailey Beard. Then after a break we read Buddha by Susan L. Roth, Samsara Dog by Helen Manos, and Foolish Rabbit's Big Mistake by Rafe Martin. E completed some worksheets about the water cycle that I got from the Discovery Education website, and had a math and spelling lesson.