...where we went to Mogador's Cafe, had some steamed milk and and early lunch. Then L worked on some penmanship--A's & B's, and 1's & 2's (she's practising writing as she's come up with her own idiosyncratic ways of putting most letters together which makes them almost incomprehensible. Plus it's kind of hard to write when you're 5.) We also did some math sheets going over number orders (what numbers come before and after 67?), and worked again on coins. We bar-graphed the numbers of cents in a penny, nickel, dime and a quarter, and estimated how many nickles & dimes would make a quarter by measuring the heights of the bars.
By then it was noon, and Mogador was filling up with real paying customers, so we moved to the Ottendorfer Library on 2nd Avenue. There we snuggled up on a bean bag in the children's section and read to each other from a Frog and Toad book (we alternated sentences). Then we did Chapter 1 of The Story of The World, which was about hunter-gatherers in the area that is now the Middle East and how they discovered farming in the Fertile Crescent. It's written for elementary school kids, but still, L and I talked about nomads and farmers, the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers, and what wheat is. Can you imagine referencing the Euphrates River in kindergarten?
And that was it. We had lunch, ran some errands, then I took L to an afterschool program she's going to do 3 days a week so that I can work. I am completely wiped out, but it was a good, good day.
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