Tuesday and Wednesday

  

Tuesday was the first night of Hanukkah, so our housemates had a party with lots of latkes with dinner (complete with sour cream and applesauce) and a doughnut for desert.  My children joined in with the lighting of the menorahs and played the dreidel game with the other children.

During the day on Tuesday, there was reading time and the girls also used the computer.  Freyja did some games on Cool Math for Kids, which also has science and geography games as well as puzzles.  Freyja did some of everything.  She was on a roll.  She even put together a puzzle-map of Mexico!

Today, Wednesday, the girls listened to the second CD of the third book from the Penderwicks series.  It is called The Penderwicks at Point Mouette.  They are really enjoying it.  They listened to the whole book yesterday evening, it seems (after bedtime, I  might point out...).  

Juno has been working on logic puzzles in a workbook called Math Perplexors (Deductive Logic Puzzles) Level A.  I got it for her a while back.  She just picked it up today and started figuring them out.  Earlier, she was also reading a book on astronomy, called The Practical Astronomer (published by Dorling Kindersley), which we got for the girls last Yule.

Earlier today, we also watched the end of episode three of How The Universe Works, plus episode four of the same show.  The first one was about Galaxies.  The second show was about Stars.  The girls are mesmerized by these shows and well-versed on these subjects, for children their ages.  I am thrilled they love documentaries as much as I do.

Freyja also played Kinectimals on the X-Box Kinect and Cool Math for Kids games on the computer.  Juno played some games on Cool Math for Kids as well.  Their favorite today was about building a bridge and it is called Cargo Bridge: Xmas level pack and I am not sure if anyone was able to build a bridge which would hold the little santas/elves as they walked across.  However, they sure had fun trying!
Over and out.