Peter wanted to say "Hi Cousins!" This week in school we talked about marsupial mammals. We read the book "Pocket Babies". Koala Bears have pouches towards their back side and their babies eat their poop because it has special bacteria... yuck! Opossum babies are born really tiny called embryons and they live in their mommies pouch until they are bigger. Kangaroo babies are very similar to Opossums, they are born naked and crawl to their mommies pouch (a short but very dangerous journey) and grow bigger there. The Kangaroo mommy can then get pregnant again and baby #2 can wait in mommies tummy (stops growing and just waits called embryonic diapause or "delayed birth") until baby #1 leaves the pouch. Interesting! Children and parents are both learning!
Peter counted to 20 and is learning to add without his fingers. We read books about mammals as well Wall-E, Bible story books, Dinosaurs, Sharks. Thursday is our library day and we spent an hour reading book after book. Then after that we had our Spanish Story-time where we learned the word for bird: Pajaro! Joey tried his best to say "Gracias" (Thanks) and showed really adorable effort.
Peter misses his cousins and we hope to figure out a way to see our family. Its hard to have family spread so far apart. But Peter has made several friends here closeby which helps. We have a friend Christine around the corner (who also homeschools) with her two children named Owen and Maryanne the same ages as Peter and Sam. Christine came by yesterday and took Joe, Sam and Peter along with her two children to the park. I had to go buy a few things at the store. They had a great time.
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