School

Okay, so I know I wrote that we were officially starting school a few weeks ago but...that didn't happen. :)
We started this week--on Tuesday. Our first day of school was spent at the zoo, enjoying the animals and having Eileen lead us around the zoo with a map. (One of her activites was to find her way on a map.) When we came home, she made cookies as part of her life skills. :)
Yesterday we had a gentle bookwork day with things and today was full swing ahead. (Sort of.) We went to the library to do school but the parking lot was so very crowded. It finally dawned on me that today was the Summer Reading Party and we were right on time! We went there instead and had a blast with a clown who did tricks, told a story and made balloon animals for everyone there. She was really very good. We went to a bait shop in Monroe and bought some worms for an experiment since we haven't found any in the yard in weeks. (No rain--although it is, of course, currently raining.)
Our experiment is one where we have different colored layers of soil and we put worms in there to discover what their niche (or job/role they have) is in the world. Craig wouldn't touch the worms so Merrick and I had to do it cause Eileen didn't want to either! So I am excited to be taking picture over the next few days to see how they will mix the soil.
The rest of our school day consisted of learning introduction things to world geography. We have a cute song to learn the continents as we point to them and all 3 of the kids are enjoying that. Eileen has labeled (with my help) a world map with a few different things and has really enjoyed "teaching" me and anyone else who'll listen about all the different things she learned. How fun!! Of course, our memory verse this week is John 3:16.

So, school has been successful today and FUN!! Finally, Eileen is enjoying herself in school. I pray it continues.