Chilly mornings

I love it when the mornings have that little bite in them! BabyGirl's favorite season is winter and she can't wait to see it arrive! We looked at the fog this morning and she remembered our talks about clouds.
We did our calendar, and our number journal #18. We did lots of worksheets where she completed patterns since she LOVES doing that!!! Then we continued graphing, and she already has that mastered. We practiced writing our numbers 0-18 and she did awesome!!!! Totally blew me away how well she wrote each and every one all on her own!! Yay!
We checked our potato again and noticed the roots are even longer since yesterday and so are the sprouts!
We had a discussion about Noah Webster. We talked briefly about the war with England and why he wanted to create American school books. She did find him interesting and paid close attention while I told her a summary of his life. (a brief one) She answered the few questions I asked her correctly after our talk. Yahoo! He really was an interesting man and held our interest far more than others have. If you know nothing about him, it's worth checking out the one and only children's book about him in the Tulsa Library system. It's very interesting to me that I was never told a thing about this man, and it was hard to locate information on him as well.... there's certainly no shortage of books on many other "heroes"...okay, that's a totally different subject :) The book is called What Do You Mean? A Story about Noah Webster by Jeri Ferris. I sure learned a lot from it :)
We started our book last night called Children of the Frontier. It shows pictures of and tells stories of how life was like for children on the frontier. She really loved the pictures of real families farms, etc. We could also relate all the information we had learned from the Little House series to this as well. There was a recipe for Johnny Cakes at the end of the book. They said they may have once been called journey cakes. Farmers used to put them in their pocket for a snack since they rarely had time to quit working to eat. We decided to make them today for lunch. BabyGirl did all the measuring and mixing as usual. They came out great!! I love the simplicity of the recipes from this time. And no matter how few the ingredients, they are never short on taste! Another fun book to try is My Little House Cookbook.
So, that's about it for today. We plan on having a reading adventure later, and going to our neighbors to share some of our Johnny Cakes. Also, if time allows, we will do a little more genealogy research for our family tree. Until tomorrow...