Just logging this for my own records….
Today we did:
Science- We all watched a show about the locust plague that hit the midwest in 1875, which the girls knew about from Little House on the Prairie. Learned a lot about locusts and how to control them. Victoria studied taste buds and cross section microscopic images of parts of the tongue in one of her anatomy books.
Math- Played Blackjack (21) with Victoria. Jack played with the calculator. I threw out random math problems like “make 3 piles of 4 pretzels for each of you, but first tell me what that will equal.”
Reading- I read two chapters of _The Best Christmas Pageant Ever_ to all the kids. Daryl read more Sadie Rose to Anna. Anna read _Art_ to the baby and read part of a gigantic Cheetah Girls book on her own. Victoria read an anatomy book, several picture books and who knows what else. Daryl read picture books to Jack.
Social Studies Talked about American history with the locust plague and how it affected farmers. Anna watched a show about Mt. Everest with Daddy.
PE- The girls and I went on a walk to drop off a card and had a snowball fight.
Art- Jack, Anna and Victoria made cards. Victoria made a discovery bottle for Alex with blue water, oil, dragons tears, plastic smiley face confetti and glitter.
Writing/Spelling- Victoria and Anna blogged. Jack, Anna and Victoria signed holiday cards and the girls wrote out messages in them. Anna got out a handwriting workbook and did a page of writing. I helped Jack blog and he wrote a handful of words on his own, and figured out how to spell hi.
Misc- Jack and Victoria played PBSkids.com games. Anna played various computer games. All 3 big kids played together a lot of the day.
OOO (one on one)- I played Uno and Blackjack with Victoria, and helped her make the discovery bottle. Lots of cuddle time with Alex. Jack and I made white chocolate covered pretzels. Anna and I sang Christmas carols together and tried to get Alex to go “la la la” at the right time in “Deck the Halls.” 
