Today we continued Topic 15 by completing pages 52-54. We reviewed today’s date. We went through the months of the year and the days of the week. Exercises on these pages utilized calendars and asked questions which required us to find information on the provided calendars, such as find how many months have only 30 days, how many months had 5 Fridays, and what day of the week was the first day of a given month. We also used a word bank to label a field of calendars in chronological order. Gracyn completed a +1 drill sheet in her workbook (page 11). She is quite fluent in +1. She was reluctant to try another +2 drill as she realizes these are more challenging; however, she has agreed to try one in our next session. As a work completion reward, we continued reading “Thumbelina” by Hans Christian Andersen. We were nervous for Thumbelina when she was taken by the old toad woman who wanted Thumbelina to marry her son. We were happy the fish helped her escape. Thumbelina has lived alone among the flowers through the summer and fall. We left off at this point and made predictions that the winter may be hard in the cold.