Art.

Rachel sat in playschool this week and stared at the picture in front of her of a door.  Her teacher said they were drawing ladybugs on the door.  Toddlers jumped in enthusiastically, drawing ladybugs and scribbling.  Not Rachel. Granted, she was very tired.  But, when I asked her about drawing lady bugs, she looked at me solemnly and said, "I don't know how to draw ladybugs."

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She will joyfully jump into other activities such as math or reading or pounding nails with a crowbar.  But she won't attempt to draw a ladybug?  I gently suggested that she think about what shape a ladybug was.  She then managed to draw a couple of circles and stick some antennae on them. 

I think I'm going to start leaving some "games" around that involve her drawing shapes and such.

Slacking. Math. Writing. Construction.

We've been so busy with the Cottage, Work, Taxes, House, etc that BFIAR (Before Five In a Row) has completely gone by the wayside.

Learning has happened all over the place.  However, we also got in some more traditional stuff.  She found this little Kindergarten math workbook and proceeded to work 18 pages in it before she got bored and moved on to other things.

We did some artwork at the cottage.  We made more rock animals to decorate the staircase outside.

She worked on tracing her letters.  Heh.

And she learned a lot by helping David dismantle the deck at the cottage.  Yes, she was allowed to carry around a can of old nails and a small crowbar.  David gave her some extra wood and she actually nailed some nails into the wood.