Annaboo

Thought I'd put some Anna pics up today.

Our kids have school on Wednesday mornings, but then are off for the afternoon. Most schools don't have school on Wednesdays at all, so for the kids in nursery school (three, four, and five year olds), Wednesdays are optional.

Since my schedule is more flexible this year, I decided that Anna and I would hang out together on Wednesday mornings and do school in English. It's pretty low-key. We are still working on the alphabet, we count to 100, read, and do a crafty thing or draw. I'm using the book Drawing with Children by Mona Brookes.
Here is a lion Anna did a few weeks ago. She cut it out, taped it up on her bedroom door, and took the picture. She named it too, but I can't remember. She did a parrot this week who she named Pixie.

Here she is drawing a picture of me. She was working on coloring in my black shawl. I was trying to paint fruit and getting nowhere.

And here are some pictures I discovered on my camera.... Anna's bottle of seaglass nestled here on the top of her much loved pet hospital and...

...a picture of what is probaby my least favorite book to read. Fortunately, it only makes the rotation a couple times a month.

We read some of Tomie dePaola's Mother Goose at lunchtime today and have just restarted the first Boxcar Children book. Anna desperately wants to be able to read, so after reading a few chapters, we went back to the beginning and she tried to memorize it (this was not my idea). She has me read a sentence, then she repeats. The funiest/weirdest part is "now the baker's wife did not like children." Anna loves saying it. Makes Disney Princesses not seem so bad...