We were off to a slow start today. It seems it's more difficult to get going again after a break like the 3 day weekend we just enjoyed. (Happy Birthday to the wonderful Dr. Marting Luther King!) But even though we started late, we had a pretty full day. After some initial help from me, the kids worked on their Math while I cleaned up the kitchen and took care of the little ones. Then they had some quiet reading time while I got lunch ready. After lunch, we worked on Language Arts and had fun making collages using prepositional phrases and statements we found in the newspaper. We moved on to Science after that and began our new unit on the Solar System. E, my science kid, is very excited about that and can't wait to teach us everything he already knows and maybe even learn a few new things himself. After all our studying, the kids bundled up and went outside for some fun in the snow. It didn't take too long for them to get cold though, and so they came back in to make some more collages - just for fun this time.