Snow at last...

but does it really count?
Despite the fact that R ran out in his pajamas this morning to eat some, it only really snowed for about 20 minutes. It stuck well on the grass, but never to the pavement. It was a joyous moment followed by a big let-down, for all of us.

We had playgroup today though, and had lots of fun. During the drive there E and I had a conversation about the earth's atmosphere, space, and clouds. He was disappointed to hear that clouds are not fluffy when you touch them. He was kind of young when he touched them through the window when Uncle Roberto gave us an airplane ride, but the memory of touching clouds is one I thought he'd never forget. We'll have to arrange to do it again to jog his memory.

R is very proud of the progress he is making in reading. We've been working on groups of sounds. He's covered "ay", "eigh" and many others. So I made a list of review words on our dry erase board, and he was able to sound them all out. He prefers doing it this way to reading books, because sounding out the words in books interrupts the flow of the story. So although his vocabulary is quite large, and his ability to read somewhat large words is really increasing, he still resists picking up books unless I insist. He probably won't read a book for enjoyment for himself though until he can do so without having to pause over hardly any words at all. We are getting there...

Between this page of anagrams and this page for puzzlemaking, I was able to make another crossword puzzle for him, which I'll give him tomorrow morning. What did homeschoolers ever do without the internet?

The Have Kids Will Travel book I ordered arrived yesterday. I'm kind of disappointed in it. I'll have to read it more closely, but so far it's all pretty obvious information. It does have some websites listed in it though, so we'll see how those are.

I received an email with a link for a very moving video today. Check it out if you can spare four minutes and want to see some truth...