This and That

Yesterday was co-op. It's been moved to Tuesdays now. The preschoolers were surprisingly calm. I didn't have to pull out any of my hair. ;) However, I do find myself in some pain today. My quadriceps are aching and I can only blame the up and down of Ring Around the Rosie. We didn't even fall down that many times before the little angels started rolling around kicking each other. Ring Around the Rosie should not cause sore muscles (unless you get kicked by an over excited three year old)!!!

I'm watching an auction on eBay. I'd like to tell you about it but then you'd rush over there and outbid me. Nah, it's getting pretty high anyway. I'm eyeballing Apologia Exploring Creation with Astronomy. But it's getting so high I may as well just buy a new copy from Vegsource. I never get good deals on eBay and yet, when I sell, no one wants to pay me the big bucks that these other people are getting.

Both Adam and Ryan did two math lessons today. I'm beginning to think A Beka is a little repetitive. I really like the review they include in every lesson. And I like that they break everything down into itty bitty steps. But lately we just don't need those itty bitty steps. We can do two lessons, combining two itty bitty steps, and just do the review on one of those pages. It's more interesting for all of us and gets us closer to the end of the book. ;) I pulled out some of those free math manipulatives today. Ryan was learning fractional parts of groups so we used the frog counters to find halves and thirds. He didnt' really need the frogs but I wanted to use them b/c they're so very cute! LOL Matthew liked them too. He can't resist colorful choking hazards.