Feb 15

Today we finished reading the Life book, and also read The Tree of Life. We had fun choosing an animal and talking about its adaptations. Georgia also read the rest of her papers on Australian wildlife and completed a matching activity with photos of the animals she learned about.

We received our bookshelves we ordered from Staples and the girls helped put them together. Georgia looked at the directions, step by step, and identified the part or tool needed. The girls also helped with inserting or placing certain parts to where they needed to go. I also taught the girls what the names of certain tools were and what they were used for. But we could only get so far before we needed Mark's help. With him home, we were able to finish both sets of bookshelves without a problem.

We also received the books I ordered for Georgia...twenty-two used Beverly Cleary books. She now has the complete Ramona series, the mouse series, most of the Henry series, and a lot of books without a series that were also written by Beverly Cleary.

In the evening, Georgia finished reading The Swiss Family Robinson. She then started and finished Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary.

Here's a picture of Olivia with her fennec fox.

Georgia's sperm whale is temporarily missing!