Field Trip

Went to the zoo today, field trip for Lil Bit and Sissy. Surprise of all surprises, Hubby took off work and went with us, took us actually. We all spent the day together. It was cold this morning, 22 degrees when we got up. My poor bleeding hearts were all droopy. Anyway, the group all met at 10:00 at the zoo and we went from there. It did warm up some and the sun felt wonderful. Left from there and ate at the Golden Coral, stopped at Lowes, Sams and a couple parts stores. Kids slept on the way home, I wanted to, it was a long day. Hubby changed cloths real quick and left again to help Son rescue the bull dozer, he had it hung up. It's now 10:00 and he's not home yet. Kids are watching Narnia and eating popcorn. I need to get things picked up and put away and get the younguns to bed, I have to work tomorrow, one goes to school and one to piano lesson.

Spelling Paper

How's this for a first grader? I told Tim if he'd write a good spelling paper, that I'd post it for all to see. His eyes lit up and he got busy and wrote nice. Sooo......., here it is. How about a little encouragement, a little feedback, something he can read for himself and get inspired to get his work done. We are on lesson #146, with 24 more to go, Glory Be! I'm pushing to get it done before warm weather. Already he's giving me grief over having to get lessons instead of out playing "because it's WARM outside" he laments. Thank you Ruth for all the work and time you put into his chart. It has helped some, hopefully it will continue to inspire through the remainder. I have offered stars a couple of times and he said "I don't want a star, I want a marble"

TEA PARTY

I had a little tea party, this afternoon at three
T'was very small, three guests in all
Just I, Myself and Me.
Myself ate all the sandwiches
While I drank all the tea
T'was also I who ate the pie

And passed the cake to me.

Oh! Hi there, you caught me dreaming............ T'was a fun dream anyway. Join me won't you?

Now, down to earth, the very stuff of life. My 'real' day was full of, "Change 'Y' to 'I' and add 'ed', drop the silent 'e' and add 'ing', double the final consonant, circle the special sounds and mark the vowels, underline the root words and circle the suffixes, 'when a root word ends with a silent 'e', drop the 'e' before adding a suffix that begins with a vowel, put the spelling words in ABC order, write 9-99 by 10's, horizonally, write two words for each sound on PHONICS CHART #9, Use these spelling words in sentences: CHURCH, CHIN, CHOOSE, PATCH, DITCH, BENCH, copy spelling list #28, consisting of 16 words, four times each, copy the following 16 spelling words and underline the prefixes, circle the root words, copy, THE LAZY MAN AIMS AT NOTHING AND USUALLY HITS IT, THERE IS ONLY ONE THING TO DO ABOUT ANYTHING, AND THAT IS THE RIGHT THING. And on and on it goes, hour by hour, day by day. So.............. that's how my days go, just incase you wondered. And now it's midnight, Good Night,ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ