Down, Down the Mountain

Today we read Down, Down the Mountain, the book we'll be rowing through next week. It's set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, which will give us the opportunity to talk about Virgina, the pilgrims, the Wampanoag, and Thanksgiving.

Yesterday we saw Bach to the Future at the MN orchestra. The performance was staged around a student trying to write a report about the history of classical music. Her uncle "accidentally" invented a way to travel back in time, and she traveled back in time to meet various famous composers...while the orchestra played to appropriate accompaniments. Mane got a kick out of it, thought it was really silly!

After the performance we went to Chipotle across the street, which is one of the few places where nearly everything is gluten free. Then we went to Central Library to find books to keep us occupied for the next homeschooling week, including some Bob Books.

We took the bus to the orchestra, and Mane counted her own coins to ride the bus. We had no quarters, and we needed 75 cents. So, Mane counted nickles and dimes to 75 cents. You gotta love life lessons!

Mane has also started reading over my shoulder at the computer! Yikes! I'd better watch my e-mails from now on. She isn't very good yet, but she's starting to pick out the easy words. I'm so excited to see her beginning to really read. I don't know what my big vent was about a week ago. All the sudden, the issue is beginning to resolve itself.

Oh, and we also resumed family Bible reading Wednesday night. Hooray for us! We're trying to get back in the habit before Advent. It's so easy to get out of it when there are soccer games and lots of company (i.e. Novio). I informed Novio that he isn't company any more, and we're going to do our family Bible reading whether he's here or not. I should've done that a long time ago.