~Eliana is 28 months~ I have been singing the "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" version of the alphabet to Eliana. Here is how it looks: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T UVW XYZ Sung to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," it …

Chapter 13:In Which Passepartout Recieves a New Proof That Fortune Favors the Brave The rajah rises from the burial pyre – or did he? Who was that, anyway? Vocabulary: pyre, aperature, suppleness, hemp, prostrate, spectre, prodigy, inanimate, resuscitat…

'Very curious, very curious," said Passepartout to himself. 'I see it is by no means useless to travel if a man wants to see something new.' Chapter 9: In Which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean Prove Propitious to the Designs of Philea…

This week, we have been learning about the four different kinds of "head-footed" animals, the octopus, the squid, the nautilus, and the cuttlefish, which are all cephalopods. We learned how they swim (by jet propulsion), what they eat, what kinds o…