Six minus three equals three

Three left today; Dash and Zeke will visit grandma and grandpa for the whole week and hubby will be attending an ag show for work. That leaves me with two! Angelina, Graham and I plan to enjoy a quiet week.

Thus far, Graham is enjoying the freedom to color in Zeke's coloring books without being reprimanded by his brother. I expect his handi-work won't be found for quite some time.

Angelina finished school early and earned computer time. She has a couple Web-kinz that needed tending (according to her!). My goal is to help her get at least one 4-H project completed.

As for me, well, there's a list that needs to be done, and it isn't anything exciting. Right now, though, I'm going to see if we can figure out Angelina's game: Auditective Bingo Musical. It's pretty much musical intrument bingo. It must be played on the CD player's 'shuffle' or 'random' mode. She was very frustrated last time because the CD player did not have that capability.

My elementary music teacher had a similar game. Well, as similar as vinyl records can be!

Lessons learned and ...

put to use for this game!

We've used Child-Sized Masterpieces (also called Mommy, It's a Renoir) by Parent Child Press for art study since we began homeschooling, and it sure is fun to hear and see the time spent on those lessons being put to task effectively. The paternal grandparents discovered that Angelina can play along with them and hold her own. Dash can play well, too, but from what I've heard Angelina must have more of my competitive genes. I don't think she's lost a game since she started playing, and she's quite proud of that fact. I'll have to see if my mom will let us have the copy we played in my childhood or if another game can be acquired. Now that my kids are getting old enough to play 'real' games (sorry to all of you who like Candy Land, Chutes and Ladders, Sorry!, and the like - I cannot enjoy myself while playing those games), I may just start having Game Days as a treat during the school week. Sounds like a blast to me!