* discussed whether she still wanted to do circus training and if not, what she wanted to do instead
* keyboard practice
* gardening: pruning, weeding, planning what to plant where, talking about “weed” species and how some trees can be weeds too
* art: drew a silhouette of a woman’s face/shoulders, then cut it out and mounted it on two different colours of construction paper. She then cut out smaller strips of construction paper and glued them on the contrasting colour to produce a “woven” effect
* English: mental “weightlifting” – looking at then writing nonsense words from memory, to help “train” the part of her brain which has trouble remembering letter sequences
* watched BTN
* took yabby out of tank and observed changes; put yabby into outside bowl to see if it changed colour again with the (presumably) lower temperatures
* watched rerun of last week’s The New Inventors
* saw the microwave spark and make a horrible noise while she was microwaving something
* reading aloud: Winnie the Pooh
* independent reading: Green Eggs and Ham
* played with mouse and rats
* looked through the two David Suzuki books, Looking at Weather and Looking at Insects, with me, and decided that they looked cool and she would like us to do some of the activities (we also have Looking at the Environment from the same series, but I can’t find it right now)
* smashed a snail, then asked a few questions about its insides and whether it could take off its shell; I found a simple anatomical diagram in a book of snails (1968, Sally Moffet Kellin) and showed it to her but she had mostly lost interest by then. Maybe tomorrow…
* looked through the Egypt book to decide what activity she wanted to do; I scanned and copied it, then she coloured it in
* playdate with Taylor: washed the dog; discussed/modelled her new shirt designs; played keyboard, took dog for a walk together