New Sites

We've found some new sites that the girls have enjoyed.

Georgia worked on fractions and decimals in the math section here http://e-learningforkids.org/

And she read about some Greek Myths at this site http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/greek-myths/load.htm?f

Olivia worked on reading skills at http://www.starfall.com/n/level-k/index/load.htm?f

And read some stories here http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f

Georgia has learned more about trees....learning about the various leaf parts and style (eg. margins or veins) She's learned about the history of Hawaii, King Kamehameha, and their flag. She's read about the nene and learned of their connection to Canada with this article http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/02/0206_020206_canadiangeese.html

She wrote a paper on what she wants to do when she grows up. It's horse-related of course. I'll ask her if I can post it here.

We still have a couple more things to do on Hawaii, and then we'll learn more about volcanoes. (And of course that means making a volcano model!)

We've sent out more postcards to people around the country. So far we've sent postcards to Florida, Wisconsin, Virginia, Washington DC, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Arizona, California, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma. So far we've received postcards from Florida, Virginia, and Washington DC. We expect to receive the rest by this weekend.

Georgia has already read all the Pony Pal books she received for Christmas. She received numbers one through twenty-two of the chapter book series. I have ordered the remaining books up to the thirty-sixth book. I expect they'll be all read a month after receiving them! Right now she is reading a couple books from the library, Wild Horse Island, and The Young Black Stallion: Homecoming.

Olivia will have some new books coming, too. She'll be receiving the Amelia Bedelia series.

Gymnastics has been going good; both girls still enjoy their classes.

Georgia is making a horse book. We borrowed about twenty books on horses and horse breeds from the library. She has read most of them and we've only had them a week. She's made notes and I helped type and print pages on various breeds. We also searched the Internet for horse information and pictures to include in her book. We'll collect all the pages and put them in a three-ring binder for her to add to whenever she wants.

Olivia has really been doing great with beginning word sounds, and all the letter sounds. She's also been practicing writing letters and numbers properly. Rhyming, simple addition and subtraction, and sequence of events have been other skills she's worked on lately.