Another Monday

Like everyone else, Mondays in my life come way too soon.  This one was no exception and getting little sleep last night didn't help.  I decided to start the day off by going to the thrift store for their 50% off sale.  I love to look for good finds at the thrift store!  The crowd was large, the shelves almost bare and the line long, however.  After we left there, Natalie and Dakota and I went to the Arbutus library to replenish our supply of books and educational videos.  Then we met with Daddy/Poppy, for lunch at Sorrentos before hitting the Landowne library on the way home to pick up my holds.  Once here, we only had half a day left, but we watched a great Reading Rainbow on mummies based on a book by Aliki and it really held Koda's attention, with a few "wow!" remarks thrown in!  Then we moved on to our first Christmas Across the USA unit, starting with Connecticut, with a little embelishment.  We used the clue under our countdown to Christmas snow globe for the day to find the state and then read the paper and went online to watch the video of their festival of lights.  He colored a reindeer and decked him out for the holidays with collar, bell and scarf, colored his penguin.  We did the state stamp and put it in our "suitcase", made our small state card, colored our penguin to start our tree of penguins, colored our first light bulb for our string of state Christmas lights and then did a geography map/quiz paper from www.enchantedlearning.com.  Dakota loved it!  I love how it's going to grow and we are going to have a whole display by the end of the holidays!

We wrapped up our day with some reading from Dakota and another Berenstain Bear book, Prize Pumpkin and he wrote a book report on that and illustrated.  We had our oldest daughter and granddaughter stay for dinner so there was plenty of activity until around 7pm and then we settled down quickly, each of us still struggling with daylight savings time and the lingering jet lag effect it seems to have on everyone.

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