Another Tuesday

LOTSA LEGOS: The kids spent a fair amount of time today at the LEGO table, building objects and constructing stories.

WAKING UP IS HARD TO DO: We read a library book this morning penned by Neil Sedaka - remember him? Until I spied the book on a shelf at the Magnolia library, I hadn't thought of Neil Sedaka since grade school. Entitled "Waking Up is Hard to Do," I thought it especially appropriate today, since Annabelle didn't roll out of the rack until 9 a.m.

The book is basically a re-write of the lyrics of Sedaka's catchy chart topper from August of 1962, "Breaking Up is Hard to Do."

Naturally, I had to show the kids a video of Sedaka singing his original version. Not surprisingly, we were all singing, "Comma, comma down do be do, down down" all day long.

TABLE TIME: We worked on standard schooly stuff at the table today, including more multiplication in our Singapore Math books and for their language arts lesson, I used a Valentine's themed worksheet from EnchantedLearning.com we never got around to yesterday.

The first part of the exercise they had to come up with synonyms, antonyms, homonyms and compound words. That was good practice. They also had to read some really poorly written sentences and write them with correct spelling, capitalization and punctuation.

THE HIP BONE'S CONNECTED: Today was Musikgarten and part of the kids' homework for their African American unit was learning and singing "Dem Bones." I found a great old version on YouTube by the Delta Rhythm Boys.

YOGA STORIES: As part of yoga today, the kids were asked to draw a picture of something they love and then the group would share their drawings and the group would all try to do yoga poses based on those images.

Annabelle drew a unicorn, a star, the Earth, a horse, and herself at a park.

Valentine's Day still weighing heavily on his mind apparently, CJ decided to draw "Mr. Love Monster." He proudly pinted out that its feet, body, head, hands, eyes and even all 10 fingers were hearts. I can only imagine what a Mr. Love Monster yoga pose looks like. ...