JJ T. Cat was in a deep, deep sleep next to me just now. Then he woke up and yawned, and my olfactory receptors immediately submitted a petition to the White House to put an end to such actions. The cat’s breath stinks, is what I’m saying. Which doesn’t have anything to do with homeschooling, unless we decide to do a unit study on feline halitosis — we’ll read “How Kitty’s Breath Made All The Flowers Wilt”; we’ll learn how to spell “halitosis,” olfactory” and “please stop yawning, JJ”; we’ll do a lab wherein we brush his teeth every day with a different toothpaste to see if any of them make a lick of difference; and at the end of the week we’ll take a field trip to the vet to make sure he doesn’t have sinusitis or something — but his breath was so distractingly awful that I completely forgot what I was going to write about.

But anyway, here’s a little of what we did this week:

Extracurricular

Pete’s first basketball game is tomorrow. His team is made up of 5- and 6-year-olds, and I think he’s one of the youngest on his team. You can read into that what you will. He’s beyond excited about the game, and he’s been practicing his game face all week.

Poppy’s piano teacher told her she’d dance the polka if Poppy practiced this week, so as you might imagine there’s been a lot of piano practice happening around here this week. Miss Kari tells me she did indeed dance the polka for Poppy yesterday, and by all accounts it was exhausting.

Reading

Poppy has been going through a free-reading draught lately. She’s usually very hesitant to read a book that I pick out for her, and yesterday was the first day in awhile that I hadn’t been solo at the library. She picked up two Magic Tree House books — “Civil War on Sunday” and “Revolutionary War on Wednesday” — yesterday, though, and she finished the first and is halfway through the second already. So I guess maybe I need to stop making suggestions? I don’t know. I’m not sure what to do on that front.

Pete, meanwhile, really wants to read some Star Wars chapter books, so he’s ramped it up on the Bob books front. He knocked out another one this week (it was about someone who tries to give a bunch of cats a bath). I haven’t had any luck convincing him to try to read anything outside of the Bob oeuvre, though.

History

I had every intention of doing All The Crafts with our Story of the World studies this year, but I couldn’t bring myself to do this week’s. We studied Charlemagne, and the craft was to make a crown and glue jewels to it. I don’t have any jewels on hand for that sort of thing (or any other sort of thing), so we skipped it. I believe next week is Vikings, though, so we’ll almost definitely be building a ship and setting it on fire or something.

How was your week?