Emma's Phonics Workbook

Emma was working on her phonics workbook today and I found her answers quite interesting. She was supposed to read a question and then circle the answer (yes or no). She technically got half of the questions wrong, even though she did the work right. She cracks me up with her cute little reasons for her answers.

Question: "Can Jane drive home?" Emma read the question out loud and then circled no. She said, "Well, I don't know how old Jane is, so I don't want to put yes because that might not be safe."

Question: "Can you make smoke with fire?" Emma read the question out loud, circled no, and explained to me that you should never play with fire. I explained that the question didn't ask if you should, but if you can. She thought about that but then concluded that because of safety implications, she is still answering no.

Another question asked, "Will you get a snake as a snack?" She read it out loud, and then answered yes. She explained to me that people in Africa do eat snakes, so she wanted to answer yes because of them.

She would never survive in school!!!! She is definitely not cut out for taking standardized tests!!! LOL

But she is a bright and spirited young girl.

The Orange County Zoo

We were so excited to go the Orange County Zoo.

But leave it to me to go to the wrong place.

Here we are at the Santa Ana Zoo.

At least we were not the only ones!!! We were so happy to have our friends make the same mistake and then help us find the zoo we were supposed to be at!!!!

Even though we missed the group tour, we were still able to enjoy the park and visit all the exhibits.

Below is a screech owl,

which is featured in Isaiah 34:14 and is actually the word "Liyliyth" in Hebrew -- לילית.

David Guzik says of this verse, "Old Jewish superstitions make Lilith a beautiful demon of the night, who seduced men and killed children. It is possible that Isaiah uses the term to describe the demonic habitation of Edom after God’s judgment."

Am I saying this is a picture of a demon? no. But it is still . . . . creeeeeeepy!

: )

The Orange County zoo is small but very nice. The regional park is beautiful too.

We had a great day with our homeschool group and God's creatures.

Our memory verse song for this week

Our Gross Day Today (studying cockroaches, feces, and stinky feet)

This is our poem from today : )

Cockroach

Is there nothing to be said about the cockroach which is kind?

Praise or admiration is impossible to find.

No one seems to care for it or welcome it's approaches.

Everyone steers clear of it except for other roaches.

If people treated me that way, I know that I should mind.

Is there nothing to be said about the cockroach which is kind?

Is there nothing to be said about the cockroach which is nice?

It must have done a favor for somebody once or twice.

No one will speak up for it in friendly conversations.

Everyone cold-shoulders it except for its relations.

Whenever it is mentioned, people's faces turn to ice.

Is there nothing to be said about the cockroach which is nice?

Is there nothing to be said about the cockroach which is good?

I can't avoid the feeling that it's quite misunderstood,

But all that I can tell you is that it does keep very quiet,

And if you've got some bedbugs, it will add them to its diet.

I'd like to be more positive; I really wish I could.

Is there nothing to be said about the cockroach which is good?

--by Mary Ann Hoberman, The Llama Who Had No Pajama

So that was an awfully cute poem (pun intended).

We had a rather gross school day today! Well, it was both glorious and gross; as we studied the wonders of the human body, one of the segments focused on digestion. Let's just say that our vocabulary today included words such as "feces" and "rectum."

But Emma LOVED her Mother Goose reading today as she was surprised by the fact that one of her favorite rhymes belongs to Mother Goose:

"Moses supposes his toeses are roses,

But Moses supposes erroneously;

For nobody's toeses are posies of roses

As Moses supposes his toeses to be."

When I began to read this to her she smiled so big, "Hey! That's from Singing in the Rain!!!"

Eww!!! I just realized that this rhyme is about a guy who wants to sniff his feet!!! Yet another example of our gross day today!!!!