It was a pretty typical day.  I think I need to start recording examples of typical days more often.

Trevor had his reading lesson (lesson # 62).  He is sight-reading all sorts of words now.  The list is now too long to make.  A couple days ago Sean watched Trevor do half of his lesson, which is unusual, because we usually do Trevor's lessons while Sean is at school.  Sean was vocally amazed at Trevor's progress, which made Trevor beam and he read his story exceptionally fast that day. 

For Conrad's "lesson" we threw bean bags into containers.  I also taught Trevor the difference between underhand and overhand throwing.

For a practical life lesson, the boys peeled their own tangerines.  They don't really like citrus lately though, and just squished the wedges once they peeled the fruit.  I guess that's a sensory/tactile lesson, too.  :)  I'll just tell myself that so it doesn't feel completely wasteful.

For math, Trevor asked to do patterns again with the bag of buttons.

Trevor was asking this morning what green and red make when they're put together, so I thought it would be fun to copy my friend Tiffany's idea of food coloring and water mixtures.  I don't know why, but when I thought of teaching color blending (if that's what it's called), paint always popped into my mind.  I like the food coloring idea much better...it's less messy.  So we got out a notebook for Trevor and made three columns.  The first two columns were of colors he wanted to try together, and the last column was what color they made together.  Both boys loved it.  They used straws to stir, and drank plenty of the colorful water.  Trevor looked at me funny after his first sip and said, "It just tastes like colored water." 

After the art project, the boys just wanted to do their own thing with paper, crayons, markers, and scissors.  They've been doing that a lot lately, which makes me happy because Trevor hasn't really taken a huge interest in art until recently.  I think Conrad has influenced that new interest immensely because Conrad loves to cut and glue and color.  It's something they can do together with minimal contention since they work near each other, but independently.

We also had devotional with Sean and reading time somewhere in the mix.

After I finished this post, Trevor also wanted to make a book again.  This time I had him tell me the story, I wrote it on a piece of notebook paper, then I copied it into a homemade book made of construction paper, and he drew the pictures.  It was about a lost dog that is found by a man in a cop car.  It was cute.