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Busy day today. With T I read My Apple by Kay Davies and Wendy Oldfield and the ingenious The Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book by Lisa Campbell Ernst. Then we read Japan ABCs by Sarah Heiman, The Terrible Eek by Patricia A. Compton, and I Live in Tokyo by Mari Takabayashi. After a break we read from ...If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon by Ellen Levine and Araminta's Paint Box by Karen Ackerman, which manages in the course of an interesting story to cover many of the various reasons people had for heading west. After spelling and math we did an experiment to make a cloud in a jar, which I found in The Ben Franklin Book of Easy and Incredible Experiments from the Franklin Institute Science Museum and we are now the proud possessors of our own home-made barometer, which we learned how to build in How the Weather Works by Michael Allaby.

On her own, E's been reading The Ordinary Princess by M M Kaye, The Kid Who Named Pluto by Marc McCutcheon, and The Toad on Capitol Hill by Esther Wood Brady.

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Yesterday: Read Sisters of Scituate Light by Stephen Krensky, By the Dawn's Early Light by Steven Kroll, and The Star-Spangled Banner illustrated by Peter Spier. Then Count Your Way through India by Jim Haskins, India by Elaine Landau, and Helen Cowcher's Tigress. E had a spelling lesson and did a review in her math book so I could see what we need to freshen up on before plunging into multiplication. All the butterflies have emerged and we have seen them eating with their proboscis'.

Today: went over the math problems E missed and then did an art project, making caterpillars out of egg cartons. E is looking up two words from yesterday's spelling lesson (bout and rout) and writing the definitions in her notebook.

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Read Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll by Franklyn M. Branley and Sergio and the Hurricane by Alexandra Wallner, then Look What Came From India by Miles Harvey. Started on the War of 1812 with The War of 1812 by Lucia Raatma. That was all I intended to read today, but when we got to the part about the USS Constitution, E got very excited and told me all about the book she read on her own: The Story of Old Ironsides by Norman Richards. I was amazed at how much she remembered from the book! She wanted me to read it to her so I did. After lunch, she read a book to T: Angelina and the Butterfly by Katharine Hollabird, and had a spelling lesson. All our caterpillars have become crysalids and got moved into the butterfly habitat over the weekend. We also spent some time looking at a really fabulous huge stick insect on our screen door.