Thursday, October 1, 2009

Journal 10/1/09

  • woke with migraine. Arghhh. Always happens on the day I want to accomplish a lot!
  • B, S and J made bacon, eggs and toast for themselves for breakfast
  • W slept in!
  • Got better about 11 a.m.
  • Read a short Tale from Ancient Tales of Eygpt
  • B and S practiced violin and piano
  • J read HAW
  • I woke up W and made him read HAW
  • B and S did cursive
  • B did 5 problems in MCP on money, counting and writing out $ and cents
  • S finished up his spelling from yesterday
  • B recited At the Seaside by R.L.Stevenson and decided she wanted to learn The Swing by him next.
  • S recited Trees and picked a new poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, entitled Travel. He memorized the first verse
  • S and B then started making up their own poems got very competitive about it and got into a big squabble! It was very creative and enjoyable for a while.
  • Everyone lost concentration and wandered outside; I made lunch.
  • W went to teach guitar to our Latin teacher's 10 yo dd. His first job!
  • Watched Lecture 3 in How the Earth Works; finally found Earth Science text for J to read.
  • B and S both finished listening to Charlotte's Web.
  • J worked on Lesson 9 in Algebra; read lesson, watched dvd did practice problems in his head and then did mixed practice (odds)
  • S created a new pivot animation
  • B has been doing all kinds of paper/cardboard sculptures including a sky scraper
  • S did 100 subtraction facts
  • S - did a bit of Latin grammar, I orally reviewed 2nd declension and vocab and did page on grammar for Ch. 14.
  • Finished Farmer Boy with B
  • B, S and I worked for a few minutes in our Greek Alphabet workbook
  • Finished reading Book 1 by Iliad with W and J
  • Rick read Prisoner of Azkabahn (sp?) to S
  • I started reading Little House by Boston Bay to B
  • Prepared for Socratic discussion group tomorrow

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