Today was "grab bag day," meaning we didn't follow a structured lesson plan like always. We DID explore learning English, math, science and Reading, but it was done through "out of the norm" tasks.

Since this was "A" week, I was going to take Jennifer to the aquarium. But the last window of time we had to get there (it's a 2 1/2 hour drive), I looked out my window and saw a storm going on outside. I thought, 'I'm not driving in that weather!' So, later, after the rains stopped, we went to a pet store instead to see some animals.

We had fun at the pet store. We saw rats, mice, some fish, birds, dogs, cats, snakes, lizards, guinea pigs and turtles. Jen liked checking out the turtles and the snake that kept slithering up its tank kept scaring her.

We also saw an interesting animal today; a Russian legless lizard. I had never known there WAS such a thing as a legless lizard! We both thought it was really neat.

We also talked about animals that start with the letter "A" and Jennifer also did this big "beach art" project. I had printed out and cut out pictures of things on a beach -- seashells, a crab, starfish, sand dollars, a sand castle and a seagull -- and glued them to cardboard paper. (Jen liked looking at pictures of starfish online. There were some BIG ones!!) Then we drew a BIG picture of the beach and she arranged how she wanted everything to appear. Those got taped down then colored. She's really proud of it and wanted it up on the wall. I have to get tacks for that; tape won't hold that big picture UP! LOL

But, it was a fun day. And that's what the "grab bag days" are all about: Having fun with learning.