Rainy days and Mondays….
Firstborn: history was reading about Andrew Jackson and his use of “the Spoil System”. He typed his narration into photo paint and made some neat color details that I didn’t know he could do. Seems like “messy Washington” may have gotten a real good start in Old Hickory….From there we read Our Island story about how the Saxons came to be in Britain. Picture narration of that. New story for science: Wild Animals I Have Known, this first story about a cottontail bunny. From there looked Cottontail Rabbits up online, did a watercolor of one and listed it’s growth limitations and eating habits. Spent an hour working on Absurd Math games. For Geography we read the chapter on Map scale (alternating paragraphs),comparing different kinds of scale, and going over the countries of the world. He’s wrapping up the day with a chapter of Henry Huggins and more math games. Probably Rune Scape after that.
Sunshine: cursive practice. History was about Edward, who came after his father Henry VIII. She wasn’t as interested as this moved more into the religious strains of the time and less into so many marriages and beheadings! She did a picture narration of the Reformation Oak and not surprisingly, showed the hangings that occurred from it’s branches. She kind of missed the point I think…….
She did a chapter of Explode the Code, “ea” words. We finished chapter One of The Princess Academy and she got excited realizing that the plot was thickening! Her list of words to work on include: coarse, ignorant, pronounced, guessed, and delicate. We reviewed the continents, oceans, and countries of the world. She worked on several multiplication pages for math after just about busting out in tears when I told her I hadn’t planned on math today. She wants to work on Money Math online later.
W: reading a chapter of The Boxcar Children and going over some handwriting. He’s watercolored and spent hours splashing in puddles today.
RK: sigh. We need a lock for the laundry room door now, as he has learned to scale Mt. Laundry to reach the medications. He scented the kitchen with red wine vinegar when another someone left it out and the top loose. I’ll pretend I made pickles….He had fun watercoloring today.
