reviewed verse/song
read Ecclesiastes 3
Bible journal page
moved chrysalises to butterfly garden net, drew picture in nature notebook
read Little Bear's Wish, drew picture
read-aloud The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Chrysanthemum
saw a male cardinal in our tree, which is unusual, and listened to him sing, drew a picture of him and used invented spelling to spell 'cardinal' (crnl)
listened to Jonathan Park and talked about the Tower of Babel and why people look different today and speak different languages
used game pieces from The Very Hungry Caterpillar game to do math--Madelyn counted and sorted and showed which pile had more, Gracie created AB and ABC patterns and drew her own ABB pattern, answered questions about What is your favorite fruit? graph
Madelyn practiced tracing her name
Gracie is also working on her end-of-unit project--she chose to do a scrapbook page that will include the life-cycle of a caterpillar/butterfly

I am truly enjoying our new delight-directed days! Sometimes I feel a though we have accomplished nothing during our day, and then I sit down and write out all the things that have happened. Learning truly does take place without me always realizing it!