This Weekend

This weekend we watched the "True Story of Moby Dick" that told of the true account of the Essex in which a sperm whale had capsized a whaling ship.

Georgia read and printed more fact sheets on animals at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/. She also played her Zoo Tycoon game again.

We watched some of the gymnastics competition on television. Then the girls practiced their handstands for nearly an hour. Livy prefers the headstand, actually. Georgia would occasionally have a handstand last for a few seconds. She gets better each time she practices.

She watched a show on Animal Planet about wildebeests on Saturday night.

Olivia and I played a ton of board games...Wee Little Pigs, Goin' Fishin', Animal Crackers Memory, and I don't remember the rest.

Georgia did a couple longitude and latitude plotting worksheets. She had also played a longitude latitude computer game at http://www.kidsgeo.com/.

Georgia finished illustrating a book she made.

Georgia also labeled a diagram on a lunar eclipse after learning what it is and why it happens. We tried to see the total lunar eclipse on Saturday but it was too cloudy. We never saw the moon. We did look at a photo gallery of pictures taken of the eclipse from around the world on Sunday morning.

We also watched part of the Eukanuba Dog Show. The girls read some of the dog breed books from the library. We also looked at some papers I printed from the AKC on the dog groups.

Olivia made a counting book. She read it to me afterwards. She recognized and read the words "How many?" and "I see". I was pretty proud of my lil reader.

Georgia started reading Ramona Quimby, Age 8.

We went on a field trip on Sunday to the Nature Center for the "Sap to Syrup" event, which is discussed in the previous blog.