Hot dogs and sand

School:

We've been REALLY lax about school since coming back from Colorado, so we've been playing catch-up for a couple of days. We finished up the entire science unit on seasons (units are generally broken down into a week or two worth of individual lessons, meant for one lesson per day) and started on what amounts to Earth Sciences. While trying to remember local land formations, we hopped onto Google Earth (mostly to check out lakes and rivers) and then spent a bit too much time playing with the sightseeing feature, looking at Antarctica and finding volcanoes.

We seem to have made it to the other side of the hill on math, too. David tested directly into 2nd grade math at the beginning of the year, but there were concepts in the earlier grades that I wanted him to get: fractions, geometric shapes, counting money, telling time. All of a sudden we find ourselves introducing the concept of addition, and about the only new thing for him was vertical addition. We completed another entire unit in math this morning. (I should have skipped directly to the unit test. He got irritated at doing what he felt was repetitive work.)

This afternoon we went to the second BBQ, and the kids had a blast...there was lots of swimming, friends, hot dogs, playing in sand, and fireworks. We didn't leave until 11:30 p.m. and the kids both collapsed in the car on the way home, of course. We put them into diapers before we left and when we got home we tucked them into bed fully dressed, shoeless, covered in sunscreen and bug repellent and with sand-dusted hair.