Another pretty good day. I think we can do better. Henry is in a down phase with his behavior. Everyone's kids do this, right? Go through 2-week phases of atrociously bad and uncharacteristic behavior in-between months long stretches of more typical behavior? Please say yes.
Our story today was "Orpheus and Eurydice". I found my ire raised by Eleanor not being able to remember the name Eurydice in spite of having (1) read the story (2) been present when I read the story to Henry (3) participated in a discussion in the van on the names Orpheus and Eurydice (4) watched a short about Orpheus and Eurydice and (5) listened to Henry do his narration on Orpheus and Eurydice.
Now, I know some of you are thinking that I'm being too harsh. After all, Eurydice is not a name she's encountered before and she is only eight. Let me defend myself by telling you that this is a child who has nearly memorized the latest Barbie movie after only two viewings. I read somewhere, in a book suggesting that very young children could and SHOULD learn ancient history first, that a child who could say "triceratops" could also saw "Hammurabi" (I'm paraphrasing wildly). I agree and I apply the same logic to this situation. A child that can recite the entire catalog of episodes of "Winx Club" can remember the name Eurydice after hearing it about 200 times in a 40-minute period.
Both kids did a narration and a coloring page and both chose to color the same scene, "Orpheus crossing the river Styx".
Today was a science day. Henry read about Guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils (one page) and moles (one page). We skipped a narration and just did a coloring page. Eleanor read about satellites, space stations and space shuttles and did a bang up job on a narration that I had her narrate and then write for herself. The spelling was dodgy but the content was right on the mark. Baby steps.
Eleanor did Sinagpore math today. I was nervous because I wasn't sure I totally understood the number fan thingy I was supposed to teach. Luckily she figured it out immediately, corrected me once and finished it on her own.
We took a field trip to Hallmark today because Henry wanted to use his money for a Webkin. Eleanor got one for her birthday and we have Webkin fever now. Only one person, a rather senior lady, asked if schools were out today. Eleanor said, "I do homeschool." The woman had a killer poker face and just asked a bit dryly, "Oh, how is that going?" and then without missing a beat, "Do you like your teacher?" I wanted to bring her home. I bet she has a great blog.
Henry
- Printing "b" - 15 minutes.
- FLL - review "How Doth...", nouns, copywork - 20 minutes.
- Hallmark Field Trip
- Reading - awesome music video, narration, coloring page - 55 minutes.
- Science - reading, coloring page - 20 minutes.
- Math - 40 minutes (he was frustrated by tangrams for some reason then it just seemed to click and he sped through them).
- Spelling - 20 minutes.
- Reading - music video, narration, coloring page - 55 minutes.
- Writing from a core sentence - 30 minutes.
- Cursive - 20 minutes (she wanted to do 6 pages so I let her. She's anxious to know the whole alphabet so she can do all her work in cursive).
- Field Trip
- Science - narration - 30 minutes.
- Math - forgot to time it...25 minutes I'm guessing.
5 Comments:
Do you speak French?
My kids LOVE webkinz too!
~Tina
The short answer is no. The long answer is that I took three years of French in college and was actually fairly proficient (the French department asked me to reconsider my political science major in favor of pursuing a degree in French). But, any skill I may have had in that area quickly waned once I stopped taking the classes.
When we do French in the car it is with the benefit of CD lessons.
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