McKinley Point Academy

By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. ~Proverbs 24:3-4

• Aug. 23, 2007 - Our First Week!

Our first week is over with and it went well! In the morning of our first day, my ds was thrilled to be doing at school at home.  By the end of the day, he was asking if it was too late to sign up for public school.  I told him we had to work things out and to give it a month or so.  He thought that he did too much work.  As the week progressed, it seemed lighter and he was happier.  We even finished by noon on Thursday!  On Friday, he gave the week 10 out of 10.  Yeah!! Observations: - Although I love my 9:30 exercise classes, they really mess up the day.  Plus Mark is home by himself for 1.5 hr while I do that.  Mei goes with me and gets socialized (i.e. plays with other kids). - Mark's LA seems to be heavy on assignments on Mondays.  - Mei's work takes a whole lot less time, so she then wants to bother or distract Mark.  One reason is because it is 1st grade work and there is just less of it.  The other is that she is focuses better than Mark. -  Mark loves his math and even his spelling.  He is tolerating grammar.  He doesn't like the paper crafts,  coloring, or the Draw Your World. - Mei loves just about everything.  That is just her nature. - They both loved science. - They are both overwhelmed by all the reading I am doing. - Mark is practicing his vowels sounds, while he plays the phonics games with Mei.  Good deal!  It will help his spelling! - It was a really good week and we did almost everything I had planned. Changes we are making: - I tried going to the gym before the kids and dh were up and that made things work out better.  They were up when I got home and ate breakfast while I showered.  I am going to do this for sure 2 days a week.  I don't want to give up my Yoga classes on Mon/Wed yet, but I may. - Mark will work on Spanish while I am at Yoga.  It is computer based, so he doesn't need me for it. - I need to move some of Mark's LA so he has less on Mondays. - I need to find activities that Mei can do when she is done.  Chores or educational DVDs sound good - although the DVDs will distract Mark even though he claims they are annoying. - I need to break up the reading.  We enjoy reading just a page or two in a book, but 4 books in a row is too much.  I also got out the Legos for them to play with one day while I read.  That really seemed to help.  I guess we will keep them downstairs. - I guess I save Draw Your World for when we repeat Children Around the World with just Mei 3 years from now or so.  I guess I can also try to sell the coloring books I got for Mark to use. - So we are not adding the History of US - a recommended extra for Mark.  However, I decided I will read the assignments in my spare time.  If I come across anything interesting, I will share it with them. - I need to add more Spanish time and more book reading for Mark. Pictures of our week! Doing LA on mom&dad's bed. B is for Brother.  Mei loves playing the phonics games.  Mark joined in. T is for Tickle!!! Doing chores! Our Children Around the World Map came, along with the figures to put on it.  We are ready now!

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