We are getting further behind.   Sterling is so sick that he doesn't even want to play video games, doesn't even want to read, and even turned down a rare opportunity to go to McDonalds yesterday.  No school is feasible, not even history readings. 

Verdi, however, has done two pages of Printing Power (Handwriting Without Tears) today, played Addit (Math-It), drawn a lesson from The Drawing Textbook (a jack-in-the-box), read pages 3-15 of The New Americans, and is now taping together a paper model of Jamestown.

After looking at Prima Latina and Matin Latin, I put in an order for the Matin.  I wanted something easy to teach, since I've never studied Latin, but wasn't comfortable with Memoria Press' prayers.  When I read that Matin Latin includes mythology, I was sold.  I did spend a bit of time reading around the Memoria Press website, creating in my self an even stronger anxious desire for Verdi to get into classical history ASAP.   Not that I think every one needs to know who Socrates was to live a good life, but I do believe that the unexamined life is not worth living, and who better than the Greek philosophers to convince my sons of that?  Years away, I know, he's only six, stop dreaming and get on with the math facts . . .

I haven't integrated recorder into our daily lessons yet.  The problem is the baby.  When he's asleep, the recorder wakes him up.  When he's awake, we can't make out the sounds of the recorder over his crying to play it. 

I am posting this instead of defrosting my freezer.  Ugh.  Better get on to it.