We played a round of DaVinci's Challenge this morning. We have yet to tally up the score, but the Sunchild is getting pretty good at this game.

We have been pretty regular about doing some sort of educational activity in the morning before playtime. After breakfast and chores, we sit down at the table and practice writing, or do math, or play a game or read or draw or do experiments. It has been a bit tricky keeping the focus, what with all the neighborhood kids passing back & forth in front of our window like fish in a tank. Luckily, one of our neighbors, M, also does some bookwork before he is allowed outside to play, so there is some community support in that. T has a hard time with it though, and tends to ring our doorbell excessively. Luckily, I am finally coming to terms with the fact that I can be a good influence on the neighborhood kids as well, and am trying to help him learn that ringing my doorbell a whole lot doesn't speed up Sun's appearance outside.

We have been chugging along at the library's summer reading program, as well. He finished his 8th book this morning. All of the books for that list have been ones that he has been able to read aloud with very little help from me. It is fascinating to watch how quickly this reading thing is taking hold.

Yesterday, we did several math worksheets. They were about measurement- both volume and length. We played around with a ruler for a while, and measured things like the circumference of each of our wrists. Strangely enough, there was only 1 inch difference between us! He is excited to finish off this workbook so that we can find a new one to work on.

Well, he wants to do something with me, so I had better get off the computer and get to it!