Little House on the Prairie

Maggie has just finished reading this book. She has really enjoyed the stories, even though I had to prod her into getting started with them initially. I found her some games and word searches, vocabulary and comprehension tests for her to take tomorrow. Then she will start reading Farmer Boy. It should be fun because there are a bunch of recipes for making natural dyes and I'm sure we will have fun playing with those. We were going to see Little House the musical, but the reviews weren't favorable, so we decided to skip it.

Maggie has been doing a science experiment with her fish.  She was feeding them each day and tapping the sides of the glass. Now when she taps the glass the fish rise to the top, even when there is no food. They have been conditioned, just like Pavlov's dog.

Maggie planted some flowers out front and has been helping me harvest blackberries from our field. We hope to have enough to make one pie. They got ripe this week, but I haven't been able to pick them. I'm afraid they will over ripen and be done before we get them picked. And it's supposed to storm the next couple days. Hopefully tomorrow evening we can get over there and get them picked.

Math adventures

Maggie had the opportunity to learn some more new math with Peter. They learned another unit and now she has worksheets to do for me tomorrow.

She also wrote a book report on the book, Maggie's Dare. It may be the first book she has ever read all the way through. I had to really keep on her to finish this book as she is not one to read books all the way through voluntarily. She kept saying it didn't interest her that much, but amazingly, once she got halfway through the book, she couldn't wait to see how it was going to end.

I also have a science worksheet on my desk to grade. I will have to look at the answer key to double check the answers, but it appears that she got most of them right. She is currently studying human anatomy.

I'm hoping her Switched on Schoolhouse program will arrive before the end of the week so she can begin working on it by October 1.