Thanksgiving

Last week was the eye of the storm. We took a break from the travel, holiday festivities, and impending Annie mayhem to just relax and enjoy each other.

We started each day slowly.



More than anything, this toy is what they remember about Thanksgiving and the story.



Some reading time with Grana...


...and reading with each other.



Happy Thanksgiving!!!



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Family Christmas

We practiced some valuable skills this weekend:

Movie watching


Tree decorating


Gift counting



Quilt opening (check out that amazing NYC quilt - thanks Grannie!)


Picture taking



Singing on stage


Snuggling



And being thankful for family. Merry Christmas in July at Thanksgiving!

Teamwork

We are getting ready for Thanksgiving (and Christmas) in Snyder later today. But first, some card writing,

A fun new magnet activity,



Some math facts made fun by turkeys on them,



More Bob books,



And some nice teamwork reading. Zoe whispers in her ear when she gets stuck. And I can finish making the cakeballs!

Pumpkin Decomposition

We are back from fall break and were pleased to see the gross yet fascinating progress in our pumpkins' decomposition in the woods where we threw them.

Fall Fun

The Smithey Academy is on our annual week long intensive study in Nashville with Professors Nonnie and Papaw - Professor Mom is relaxing at home and finally getting caught up on many things, one of which is this website!

October has flown by, and blogging has not risen past all the other thousands of things that demanded time.  Sorry to get so behind.  In addition, many of my pictures of our students hard at work were lost during a phone upgrade (but boy is my new iphone's camera great!).  So rest assured, while we have had more than our share of halloween candy, Annie rehearsal, travel, and fun, we have also been doing lots of reading, math, and writing.

Both girls are getting faster at their math facts and math in general (Lucy just listens and jumps in - she typically wanders over every day at math time and just watches quietly over Zoe's shoulder).  Reading is amazing some days and agonizing some days, and songs, stories, notes, and spelling lists are written every day.  I'll do a better job of keeping you updated.

Our study of Egypt led Zoe to decide to be Cleopatra during August and she never wavered.  And while I would like to think that our real life observation of the butterfly life cycle last spring inspired Lucy's costume, I think it was the big sparkly wings.