What We Accomplished… Day #14 7/28/11

We went to the fair parade this morning and also to the fair for a short amount of time. I think we got home about 1:00 pm. School started right away (no computer or tv until it’s done). Was a good day

Lee:
Bible: Reading (John 13), verse (Romans 6:1-6, read, write, recite), Mark Commentary (written narration)
Math: Life of Fred Beginning Algebra (Lesson 40- graphing points)
History/Geography: The Life of Christopher Columbus, Western Civilization (worked on Hundred Years War report)
Science: Biology (pages 26, vocabulary, review)
Language Arts: Jensen’s Grammar (Lesson 54)
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: How to Read A Book (continuing Pt. 1, Ch. 1)
Foreign Language: cut out flashcards for Greek (lol, it’s something)

Fox:
Bible: Reading (Mark 6), verse (Matthew 6:31-34, read, write, recite)
Math: Khan Academy (absolute value [it’s easy and he likes it… therefore he sticks with it…moving on next time!])
History/Geography: What Everyone Should Know… (pages 111-112, written narration), Complete Book of Marvels
Science: Murche’s Science Reader VI (Lesson 6, vocabulary)
Language Arts: Hobbit (second 1/2 of chapter 3), 30 minutes reading (Great Inventors and Their Inventions)
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? (chapter 2, narrated and discussed)
Foreign Language: -
Penmanship: Pictures in Cursive (he did this yesterday as well and I missed it when recording it [the painting is actually titled “Still Life of Grapes, Peaches, and Figs with a Landscape Beyond”])

I could do this tomorrow but I figured I would forget to so I am going to do a quick ‘how it’s going’ blurb here.

Lee is doing well, keeping her attitude positive and staying semi-focused. She decided on her own more than once that she would stay and work on school work instead of going with me somewhere. She still is taking a long time to finish up her day because, as she told me, there isn’t anything else to do. Although she does like the computer, even that doesn’t really motivate her to work faster. We finally started on Life of Fred again. It’s been since perhaps April since we have done it. It seems we hit a wall with some of the concepts. Today went very well. A few things that we/she didn’t recall; we will work on that. Every thing else is going great with her school work. This is almost the last day of week 3 and it has been going quite well.

With Fox, he is still going fast through his work. It seems that he still is in the mindset that getting it done is the goal. The goal is to learn not simply to put another check on the list. We need to work on spelling- terribly. I haven’t quite figured that out yet. I don’t want to use Spelling City (not that there is anything wrong with it) because I do not want him on the computer any more than needed (other than for his ‘fun’ time). I think the rest of his subjects are also going well. I’m really glad that he enjoys the Pictures in Cursive so much. I intend to have him start doing each line twice each day. He is having a little trouble with lowercase ‘p’ and holding the page correctly to have uniform letters (some slant to the left, some to the right, and some are straight up). But really, he is doing so well! And he is doing it without complaint. He enjoys the paintings

Tomorrow is the last night of house sitting and I wonder how that will affect school. It is nice and cool here. And there is that dratted tv. I dislike tv and will be glad to be away from it. Fox told me yesterday that he felt the reason both of the kids have been forgetting to say ‘thank you’ or ‘may  I’ is because of watching tv! It’s not surprising to me but interesting that he noticed. I am looking forward to being home…but not to the no a/c. I’ve gotten spoiled here!