Happy Birthday, K3!
The girls got a fun start for their week! On Sunday afternoon they joined a gaggle of other 3-8-year-old girls to celebrate the birthday of a close friend of theirs with a princess party--complete with fancy crafts, cake & ice cream, and time on the trampoline. The girls were all invited to come dressed as princesses or borrow one of K3's many costumes once they got there. While the rest of the crowd arrived as a classic Disney princesses, our girls did their own thing: Bug dressed as WonderWoman (she was shocked that the other girls didn't even realize WW was a warrior princess of the Amazons--they have now been educated), Monkey dressed as Pocahantas (a real princess), and Goose became a fairy princess of her own making, complete with wings, wand and crown.

Library Day
Another lovely quiet day at the library. We got mostly picture books this time, since we kept most of our non-fiction from last week.
Seven Stars, More!
The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant
The Mixed-up Chameleon
On My Way to the Bath
Museum 1 2 3
Gray Goose and Gander & Other Mother Goose Rhymes
Penny and Her Marble (an easy reader chapter book for the big girls)
The Missing Piece
So Sleepy Story
Anansi the Spider
Bonjour, Butterfly
Pharaoh's Boat 

The Three Rs
The big girls got a new writing pack this week. For grammar they're learning about contractions and about adjectives (we did some diagramming of the latter). Monkey also completed a story starter, and both girls did spelling as usual.

Both girls read Fancy Nancy: Poison Ivy Expert. Bug also finished Not Tired, and Monkey read Mother Bear's Robin. They've also been doing a lot more happenstance reading--things like signs, instructions on math worksheets, etc.

For math this week, Bug worked on fractions, reading graphs, multiplication, telling time, counting money, and addition. Monkey worked on counting money, addition, subtraction, fractions, and measuring length.

Goose still isn't doing any formal lessons, but she's expressed a lot of excitement about starting them when she's 4, though. It's funny--that's the same age her big sisters were when they decided they were ready to really start learning the three Rs. She has, however, been thoroughly enjoying the counting books we got from the library, and she's been working on writing her own name.

Updates

• Bug and Goose both did some unsupported swimming this week! Bug managed to swim the width of the pool, and Goose made it a couple of yards to get to her teacher. Monkey's not quite there yet, but she's making progress.
• For our home Bible readings, we finished reading about Isaiah and started the story of Job. For quizzing the big girls memorized Exodus 15:6. They also earned extra tickets (which they can use to purchase prizes) for reciting verses from previous weeks. Their teacher was really impressed with how many they still knew!
• Life skills learning of the week: the girls helped me sort out what toys we're taking on our big trip (evaluating what they play with most, what will pack best in suitcases, etc.) and pack up the rest of the playroom in boxes for storage.