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I need to be making my lunch for work.  But, post a tiny bit.  We had an awesome morning discussion (over and before Minecraft) about planets, the New Horizons spacecraft, fossils and dinosaurs... we even looked at the Laetoli footprints.  I was sort of following her lead but in a very 'Mom really is a geek' way... we built a new bridge and houses in Minecraft and a fishing dock.  And I have to get ready for work...

Our official timekeeping for school starts in a few weeks - but if today was a day for it, it would have been about two hours of discussion/Minecraft combined.  She was also reading the Ancient History exploration book I had found at the dollar store and asking questions out of it. She was upset by the book burning description, and said she couldn't wear a kimono because it was just one big cloak and it would get hot.

//notes//
Thinking a bit further about how to organize activities and subjects for the first few weeks, until we get going on our 'own fuel.' ... hmm...

In the Social Studies book we will be doing the family tree exercise in the first few weeks...and I want to maybe use the 'Mesozoic Disaster' video about the dinosaur extinction as one of the first kickers to our extinction talk and science questions about the biology science needed to bring them back.  Also, probably start with the digestive system in the body chart because she already asked about the 'food and air tubes'...and after it is discussed it is easy to tie the heart/blood system in next, then air, then return back to the kidney/liver/spleen etc to explain how the body stays healthy by taking bad stuff out of the blood and foods.  How can I work some boring stuff like carrying and borrowing in math into all of that?  There are the 'Math Spies' plans I'm making.  Vocab and spelling will work okay...

And I wish I could just bring her to a place that will have kids to play with much more often - but this place is so rural about the only three places are the public school, the public library (hit or miss she'll find someone there and hit or miss if their mom will let them play with 'strangers' while at the library) and the park/playplace (wild animals resume your positions)... She told me this morning that she had a bad dream that she had no friends, never got invited to any more sleepovers and peed in her bed and got in trouble.  But they were just dreams...but they were scary ones.  All of those weigh heavily on a little mind (we are going through the last one so tough now, she sleeps like a rock and even started sleeping through the new alarm clock after a week).