We have finished our "morning school" for today. After last week, I realized that K works much better before our recess break, and not so good after it. With the addition of the Saxon math this week, I decided to try a new approach. We will go through our before-recess lessons and then call it for the morning. Then, when H takes her nap after lunch, we will finish the day's lessons. This should give her enough of a break to feel mentally refreshed. She just gets really antsy about halfway through, and when I take H up for her nap, it's usually quiet time for K, anyway, so it just makes sense to try it this way. I will still give her the half hour of required down time, and then, instead of playing on Daddy's computer, she will finish up her school lessons. We will try this for the week, and see how it goes.

Today, the girls got to mix red and yellow fingerpaint together to make orange. Oh, how they love their paint! I made some fingerpaint with a recipe that Calvert had in the lesson manual. It works pretty well. They really enjoyed making a mess of their hands!

The math lesson went wonderful today. It was probably only about 10 minutes long, but it was the first lesson, so I wasn't expecting it to be overy difficult. H missed the first half, but showed up just in time to play with the patterm blocks and build a tower with them! The first half of our school day was about an hour today.