Mercury spinning!

Gotta keep this quick, but wanted to get a quick post in.

Today was SUPER!!! When I came down from nursing the baby and saw Bailey stretched out on her tummy in the grass, in the shade, reading Robin Hood aloud to my 4 other children...I sighed and my heart smiled. This is what it's all about!!! How could I possibly be any happier? And the day got even better.

Math: Lesson 20 for both kids. Littl'uns: worked on cutting & pasting penguins, writing p's, and circling "same" things.

Grammar: Kat aced her test from yesterday, Dane did GREAT--just a couple little mistakes that we went over together today. Kids wrote paragraphs in both 1st & 3rd person. Then the little ones went to church play group with Bailey.

History: gathered together info for our Book of Centuries pages for 800-900 A.D. Kids cut and pasted pictures of Danes and Vikings, wrote out facts, and even drew some of their own pictures. Cool!

Did Day 4 of Slim in 6...was pretty tough and I'm still sore, but I felt stronger afterward than yesterday...not so noodle-legged.

Literature: (aforementioned)

Science: Added info about Mercury to the Astronomy notebooks. This info included facts such as...1) Mercury takes 59 days to spin around once, but it orbits the sun every 88 days. We'd get old fast on Mercury! 2) But we'd actually be dead, because a hot day on Mercury is 750 degrees and a cold night is -300 degrees. Not to comfy; 3) Sky always looks dark on this terrestrial planet, and the sun always looks completely white (all light waves bounce off and are not absorbed); 4) If earth was a baseball, Mercury would be a golf ball. Only smaller planet (if you consider it such) is Pluto; 5) Mercury's orbit is quite elliptical; and 6) We learned about how craters may have been formed and why it might be that there are crater-less areas on Mercury (think young universe).

Dane finished up with cursive...the Magic C Bunny...we get a kick out of that little character in his cursive book...Kat enjoys teasing him about "Magic C Bunny time!" :)

Got to go take pictures of the rental house in the afternoon. Had a really nice time talking with Comfort...hard to leave since we never get to chat! Fun to talk about school stuff with her.

Bailey stayed for NUMMY baked potato supper...gotta love fresh bacon bits. SHE baked the potatoes up for us and they were perfect!!! THEN, we had a little family campfire down in the yard and the kids made S'Mores. Another big sigh of YAY for home schooling.

Time for sleep! Math tests tomorrow...but it's FRIDAY!!!! (Oh, and don't tell the kids, but Bailey and I are planning to do "all things Columbus" on Monday...I found a Biography of Columbus film to show and we will dress up and eat cool things...all a surprise to the kiddos. I can't wait!!!)