It has been a book day. A rainy, dark, quiet day for reading & playing quietly together.

Today is the anniversary of the birth of Johnny Appleseed, who was from Massachusetts, and moved to Ohio. We read his story this morning, and I wrote down what the Sunchild told me he had learned from it.

We also played around a whole bunch with pennies. I had been directed to check out a cool site about cantilevered pennies, which inspired us to attempt to build something with our own penny collection. This led to several pyramids, or tipis, as the Sunchild liked to call them. Then we talked about squaring numbers, and adding double digits, but I think I lost him on the double digits.

We also read The Lorax, which is a wonderful environmental book, and it is fun to read, too. He has parts of it memorized. We spent some time looking at a book about games, Let's Play: Traditional Games of Childhood. This led to some experimentation with stones and a game like jacks, as well as a determination to get some jacks for the house. Our last book for today was Boston Tea Party by Edwards & Cole. The Sunchild was not too happy about littering the harbor, but he liked the idea of 'No More Kings', which led us to listen to some Schoolhouse Rock afterwards.

We finished off with the Bionicle movie, which was somewhat painful, as the movie was in poor condition & had severe white line issues that could not be resolved with the tracking adjustment. Of course, there was determination to finish the movie despite this problem. It had interesting elements that were somewhat TCM in flavor. There are elementals, and they interact in specific ways, and there was a definite theme of Yin & Yang. I see much more Bionicle play in our future...