We had a very exciting wake up call this morning!  Men came up our road about 7:00 to repave our road so the boys got to watch the whole process before school started.

Austin helped Gavin pick out his short vowel sounds.

Gavin reviewed his cursive letters.

He doesn't slant his writing but he is writing neatly.

Austin did an A for Alligator craft today.  We started with a big, green 'A' and Austin added triangle teeth and eyes.

He really liked his alligator!

He practiced his pouring again today.

Gavin reviewed parallel lines and how to fold different shapes into equal parts.

Austin did a vehicles puzzle.

Then Gavin reviewed his place values.  He zipped right through this today so I think he's got it.  He's also recognizing 7-ten 6 as 76, etc.

After we read our moon books we practiced walking on the moon.  Not really, but we strapped big car washing sponges to Gavin's feet with rubber bands and he walked around.  I'm not sure this is really what it feels like to walk on the moon but it was all around entertaining!

Gavin had art today.  We studied the painting "Blue Dancers" by Edgar Degas and talked about how Degas experimented with photography and sometimes painters paint photographs.  So we looked through our Birds and Blooms magazine (a wonderful magazine if you haven't heard of it...it has fabulous pictures!) and Gavin picked out a picture of a little dog standing in lupine.  I thought it was going to be really hard for him but let him paint it anyway.  It was a good thing I did because it turned out great!

Here's Degas' painting:

And here is Gavin working on his painting.  He used watercolor crayons again. He is getting the hang of watercolor crayons.  You use them like regular crayons but then paint them with water to blend colors and make it look like watercolors.

I think it looks like a dog!

Austin and I read Little Apple Goat.

We read this book about alligators (not really about alligators but it has alligators in it).

Gavin and I read about Jacob and Esau.

Gavin and I read these books:

This book doesn't really have anything to do about the moon, but it's a cute book about a kitten who can't sleep because of all the noise in the barn and the mother cat tells the baby about all the animals that are up at night.