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Silver Moon Learning
Apr. 1, 2009
What a day!
Not in a bad way. Just... "Shew!" Where DO I start?
The big guy may have perfected the art of dawdling. *grin* Today Justice:
~read about the French founding a colony in Florida in the mid-1500s and narrated it back pretty well too (taken from This Country of Ours)
~read a couple chapters in Silver for George Washington
~dictated some sentences from Aesop (I was going to change this up, but his writing book we'll start in a month will use a lot of Aesop. He may as well get familiar with the style)
~did a Mind Benders puzzle
~did a math lesson
~hauled the mountain of folded laundry to the appropriate bedrooms, somehow suckered two younger sibs into helping him shared the task with siblings
~played outdoors quite awhile, played video games, watched a movie, read a Star Wars Choose your Destiny book
He had some science to read that we never got to.
Joy was hit with the dawdling bug too. Think it's contagious? Once she got moving she did great though. She:
~read a chapter from The Burgess Animal Book for Children
~did a regular lesson in Spelling Wisdom, First Language Lessons, math
~read and narrated a page from our science text
~drew a picture and wrote a sentence on her daily idiom
~worked on an ArtPac lesson
~cleared and wiped down the dining room
~doted on her little sisters something fierce
Honor on the other hand? That boy wrote so much today his hand was hurting. Literally! You see, he's just broken the code to reading and is discovering what it's like to fly. :) I'd forgotten how quickly this stage can inhale workpages. Last night I was so proud of myself for printing off NINE whole kewl looking short vowel workpages off the internet. I naively said to myself, "That'll get me off the hook for the rest of the week." Hah! Every single one of them is in the finished pile with his proud initial in the corner, as well as the three workpages that were already loaded on his clipboard before I'd found the new printables. Not only that, he did about a dozen addition problems mentally today. No Legos. No buttons. No Hot Wheels. No fingers! Granted, the sums were small, but he's only five years old! A few days short of five years and four months to be exact. Neither of his big sibs did this until first or second grade.
Grace dutifully did her two workpages on short and tall, practiced writing her name, and did a blending exercise in Phonics Pathways. No, I am most certainly not some drill sergeant who makes three year olds do school. This particular three year old has been insisting on her own lessons for months. She asks for them in full sentences. Her blending has taken a leap this week, no prompting to stretch out one sound until it runs into the next. She's a few pages short of being done with this section of Phonics Pathways.
Not to be left out, Faith has learned how to climb up onto the dining room chairs without assistance. She's been pulled off the dining table itself already. The puzzles, books, water bottles and other things placed on the dining table so she can't reach them may never be safe again. Thirteen months old. Half monkey. |
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