Yesterday went amazingly well! We got everything done and both kids were right on track all day.
Hopscotch counts as PE, right?
Jessie did 13 addition problems with me while Sam worked on addiding mixed numbers. She tried to tell Sam that he did his warm up drills wrong. They were a mix of multiplication and divistion and she was adding the numbers. Sam, bless him, patiently and politely explained the different operation. Jessie, bless her, even accepted his answer as if she understood. Maybe she did!
While Sam did the stationery bike, Jess and I headed outside for some hopscotch. I think this is the first time we’ve played. Shame on me, eh? I drew out the squares and she wrote in the numbers. I was pleased to see that her balance has much improved.
Afterwards, we all went to the back deck and did some exercises. Jessie did a bit of each and then “scampered off” as she likes to put it while Sam worked on Karate. Man! I really want to take that class myself.
Sam making a Chinese seal
History went so smoothly that we did more than I had planned. Always nice!
We used styrofoam vegetable trays to make “seals”. Sam did the Chinese characters by pressing a pencil into the foam. So the characters themselves are the color of the paper and the area around them is what prints. Makes sense? Jessie did a drawing of a frog.
Then it was time to try the Red Bean Soup which looks amazingly like chocolate pudding. Both kids said it tasted okay but neither finished their little bowels. I think if you used honey instead of granulated sugar and added carob or cocoa powder, you’d have a really nice dairy free pudding. My preference is to have it room temp to slightly warm. I also found it to be very filling and satisfying.
After lunch, I read the legend of shadow puppetry to Jessie (she picked it out) and found this amazing website that lets you set up a shadow puppet stage, choose your characters, props and music and press play!
After quiet time it was on to Latin! We went through the worksheete I made from the class pdf and then I set up Anki on his desktop. Pretty simple. He says he likes this better than Minimus. Sad. I liked Minimus but then this is not just for me.
Copywork was in Latin too! “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck…” just isn’t as fun to say in Latin but it is funny just to be able to say it. Sam got a kick out of it and did a great job of writing it in cursive. His legibility has really improved! Hmmm… wonder if I should have him do some in print. His printing is not so legible.
Today we visit the alpaca farm. I have to remember the camera and battery! The rest of the day will be the usual subjects.
I think the week is planned out. Still need to do some print outs but I can thankfully go to bed at a decent hour tonight. {yawns}