So last week…I created a Mancala fiend.

because Africa for Social Studies – I also told her about William Kamkwamba

There were mirrored drawings, stories, writing, reading,

more consonant blends,

and animal observations (birds this time). I am a big big fan of the science progression – Lesson 4 has a research project! We went to the Mobile Museum of Art just because we could. The scarf continues slow but steady, she works on it while we read Anne of Green Gables at bedtime. Ellie looks at me Meaningfully when knitting is mentioned in the story.

Mostly it was all about mancala. We played in between every single activity. You probably think I’m kidding.

Oh, and she lost another tooth! To be perfectly precise, she yanked it out at dinner because it was “too hard to eat.”

every time she smiles, I giggle