The Brick House

• Beth sorted all her Goosebumps books into numerical order and reshelved them neatly
• listened to Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier while working
• RCWC sight words; wrote and illustrated sentences using them (figured out how to add -s onto “come” so she could write “Here comes…” for one sentence)
• read “Here Comes a Truck” to Katy (the selection of a book which offered repeated practice in two of her recent spelling words was entirely serendipitous on Katy’s part *g*)
• 2 x handwriting pages
• 1 double page in her multiplication and division workbook
• cleaned out bunny cage and helped me vac dining room
• dictated a report on her visit to the Geoscience Australia Open Day and what the boffin said about her fossil
• built a house for the rats
• swimming with Nannie

• 2 x pages handwriting
• started letterbox lesson; B got confused about what I wanted and shut down, so we had a break
• watched BTN (research switching to LPG?)
• RCWC sight words; wrote sentences using the words
• reading: As I Went Down Zig Zag by Charles Causley (I read the whole, she read half, we’ll work on it again tomorrow)
• I read aloud from Going to the Fair (Causley), while B did some drawing
• 1 x page multiplication book
• swimming with Nannie
• circus
• Black Mountain Tower

9-9:30
• handwriting

9:30-10
• reading with expression: Red Lips (poem by Beth)
• word mapping: little; girl

10-11:30
• Beth drew a detailed face, with shading, and some attempts at drawing a house from different perspectives while I read aloud from Charlotte Yonge’s A Book of Golden Deeds
• painted inserts for her DIY “lava lamp” kit
• played in the garden

11:30-12:30ish
• maths problems
• sight word revision
• wrote a short story using the sight words
• talked about the Commonwealth and about the differences between the way in which America and Australia achieved independence from Britain
• talked about the end of Imperial China, the Great Wall, and a bit about dynasties. B decided she wanted to look at China more deeply so we decided to do that tomorrow