School Today

We enjoyed a week of vacation and some stargazing in Arizona. At breakfast we read From a Child's History of the World about Martin Luther, King Charles V, and the quarrel between the Catholics and Protestants and church split. We also read about Henry VIII and his splitting away from Rome so he could divorce his wife.
We did Advent prayers around the wreath and the first verse of O Come, O Come Emmanuel.
C did about an hour of Khan academy Math and is now up to grade 4 with addition and subtraction through 1000. She also made progress with fractions and area and perimeter and a few other things.
C did a tiny bit more of the "Hour of Code" on Khan academy also. This is conceptually a bit tricky for an 8 yo I see why they recommend starting at age 10. C and E also observed me make a picture of the sun using Java script on Khan Academy.
Yesterday was a day off but we had an impromptu Spanish lesson and did decorating of advent wreath and made some Christmas presents and worked on tidying their room. We also did science by mixing various interesting ingredients to make bath bombs.
Emily worked on tiding the play area in the attic this morning. She also did an activity with magnets. we have a set of 16 3/4" ceramic magnets and she was experimenting with them one thing we did was wrap a couple into a ball of aluminum foil and moved it around with the stack of magnets that was left. It could make it spin around and them drew near to stick onto the stack.
The girls are currently experiencing the long awaited rain outside and enjoying their mostly unused rain boots.
They were cold when they came in and wanted a bath and to use a bath bomb we made yesterday. They had fun watching it fizz and them Emily read sight words which I wrote on craft foam shapes.
Both girls did copy work and Spanish. C's new Spanish book and CD's (Learnables Spanish Basic Structures 2)  arrived the other day and she tried it out for the first time. She got through page 13!
I reviewed the first 2 lessons of Learnables book 1 with Emily. She pointed to all the pictures I talked about  with ease. E and I  did Khan academy and seemed to enjoy it, She sat on my lap did the mouse at first but she switched to doing it herself about halfway through.

We read several Bible stories and added ornaments to the Jesse tree in the girls room. They made the ornaments out of salt dough a couple years ago.

E read lessons 5, 9 and 10 of the McGuffey's Primer aloud to me while sitting on my lap. She read the first two very fluently.

At afternoon tea we read a couple Spanish poems and I translated them. I also read some A.A. Milne poems and two chapters of Paddle to the sea we looked at the map and saw where Lake Huron is located. I read two Aesops fables: The Lion and the Goat which E retold and the Fox and the Goat which C retold.
C spent time reading Farmer's Boy, practicing piano, talking to her Nanna, reading Nancy Drew and Flower Fairies of the Trees by Cicely Mary Barker.
It was a full day!