Back To School

We jumped back into school this week with a new penny whistle lesson and the letters L and N. I told Grant the stories of Little Red Riding Hood and The Nail. We drew a picture of Little Red Riding Hood, drew a picture of the letter N made of nails, and made nails out of beeswax.

We were pretty certain that our pond was frozen solid with the days hovering around 0, plus or minus 10 degrees, so we spent some time before school on Tuesday playing on the ice.

This would be Grant licking the snow off the ice.

This would be Johanna licking the snow off the ice.

On Wednesday, January 6th, we celebrated Epiphany. This is the twelve day after Christmas when the wise men reached Jesus. We made a cake and hid three beans inside (it was supposed to be one, but Grant said since there were three kings we should put in three beans). The ones who got a bean would be kings the next day. I served the cake after dinner and somehow both Grant and Johanna got a bean. The third bean was in a slice we saved for the next day, and somehow Julia got that bean. Grant said he would like to be king all winter. I said that was okay, but he wouldn't be getting out of his chores!

We finally had SNOW Wednesday night, so Thursday morning we all went sledding before school. Everyone had a fun time. We put Johanna and Julia on the same sled and Julia just sat there, not moving, as we pushed them down and pulled them up over and over again. She just sat, chilled (literally), and rode.