We have a NYC guide book with a compass in the spine. J asked me how the compass worked, I explained how the little red arrow always turns to point North. She played with it for a long time, trying to "trick" it and figuring out where all the other directional points were. W wanted to "do workbook" with me and chose a page on counting money. One page had a nickel and 4 pennies and he had to guess the amount. And again with a dime and 2 pennies. He actually understood he had to start counting from the larger coin's amount. He tired of that when his show came on, but a little while later he read Hop on Pop to me. J and W went in the pool for a couple of hours after that.

After we picked up K, I drove J to dance class. The summer classes are set up differently. We thought the Combo class was for her age but it was all 4-year-olds. The owner said J could stay and help teach. That was cool! I convinced W to try the class since it was for his age and he reluctantly went in. He acted all goofy in front of all the girls - it was so cute! But when they started out with toe pointing and pli'es, he walked right out of there saying he doesn't like that dancing. LOL! Too bad it wasn't a Spiderman class! So since the hip-hop class was after that and the cheer dance class was after that, I left J there to pick her up a few hours later. It turned out no one showed up for the other classes so they were cancelled. J just hung out there with the older girls and made up her own dances. She goes back tomorrow with her group to practice for nationals.