Journal 10/15/09

• Slow, sleepy, rainy morning
• S and B did cursive; S's was a Latin sentence. S did a tiny bit of spelling too.
• S read more of The Search for Delicious
• B practiced violin, then we got into watching Sarah Chang, Hilary Hahn and Natalie MacMaster on youtube
• J read Earth Science - said it wasn't anything he didn't know already. It's a middle school text so I guess he needs something a bit older to hold his interest.
  
• W read history - said SWB was a great writer.
  
• Met with J and W and finished Book 4 of Iliad
• Discussed HAW; Sargon, Gutian invasion, Abram and Sarai, 1st environmental disaster.
• B and S watched more Fetch.
• Dreary afternoon; made hot cocoa; watched/prayed the divine mercy
• W went to teach guitar to his student
  
• S did next lesson in Saxon
• B played at pbskids and got really into the Cailloiu game where you decorate your own dollhouse
• S wrote a long e-mail to his friend Joseph. Asked help on spelling words.
• B wrote me a note again; so sweet.
  
• B and S watched Tom Thumb again
• J played new video game with blood/bad language turned off
• B is playing with Hannah's old dollhouse now; she hasn't done that in a couple of years!
• S is back to writing another e-mail to his friend.
• Steam cleaned the living room rug. Thumbelina is outta here. We were keeping her out of the house but then started to let her back in again and she's up to her old trick. Sorry, sweetie but you are officially an outdoor cat now!
• W got into teaching voice to B who we've discovered has a rather operatic voice. We listened to a little Fredricka von Strade on youtube.
• W taught S how to improvise jazz style to Dear Prudence. W on guitar, S on piano. B was sitting in plucking her little 1/2 violin.
• Then W started giving more voice lessons to B and S got his nose out of joint about it so I sent him upstairs to take the shower he was supposed to take this a.m.
• J and I watched the next lecture in How the Earth Works. It was all about the Big Bang. Absolutely fascinating. Did you know we are 13.7 billion years old? Our atoms are at any rate.
• W is teaching B how to sing Amazing Grace. So sweet!
• Read next chapter in Little House by Boston Bay to B
• J played lots of Brutal Legend today
• S is playing Tetras
• Rick read Rebecca to B
• Rick read Harry Potter 3 to S
• H and I talked by fbchat. She's having trouble writing a paper due tomorrow on justice and whether ares and aphrodite got it when they were caught in adultery. She's despairing. I hope she gets inspiration.
• Need to go prepare for the Socratic discussion tomorrow. Also I got Gilbert today! Gotta curl up and read.