Yesterday we finished Aliki's Gods and Goddess of Olympus so today we started Charles Kingsley's The Heroes (or Greek Fairytales for my Children).  It is a beautiful book that we found at a junk shop for a quarter, and we are both completely enjoying it.  Today we read about Perseus and his mother, Danae, and how they were thrown into the ocean by Danae's father.  They survived thanks to the kindness of Halcyon, a bird that keeps the ocean calm.  Flora drew a picture of Perseus and Danae floating in the ocean and Halcyon flying overhead.

We are still enjoying Math Mammoth very much, and thanks to it's simple and straight forward teaching Flora can now tell time.  It's very exciting for her (and I).  We learned about the minute hand today and she got it in a snap.

Another program we are enjoying is First Language Lessons for the Well Trained Mind.  It's a simple, scripted program of memorization, copywork, worksheets and narration.  Today she learned about common nouns.

Flora's first science lab was today; learning the characteristics of living things and discerning what is alive and what is not out of a rock, plant, person and bicycle.  We are using R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey; Life Science and it has an incredible "try before you buy" offer that completely sold me on this science book.

Finally, she has been learning to play chess with her father and she really enjoys it.  I am hoping she will learn to play well enough to join the homeschooling chess club in the next month.  She pretty much has all the moves memorized.