Jan. 16, 2008 - Blessed Monday!
Whew. Schedules are good. Things are definitely starting to 'come together'. Of course, there is still the stray bump in the road, the bad attitude, the scowling look, the whine........but all in all, things are SO much better.
Is it b/c MY attitude is so much better? Is it b/c Daddy's attitude is better? Is it b/c Jupiter is aligned with Mars?
I've allowed myself about........5 minutes..........to consider the "WHY'S" of this incredible transformation of attitude and have decided it is GOD.
I've also added to the mix that small son is actually getting older. HE has had to endure a few hardships these past months. HE has learned much about action/consequence. Good life lessons.
It is all good, in SPITE of all the upheaval, conflict and financial difficulty. God is GOOD.
Yesterday we even accomplished ALL of our schedule for school. In the allotted time. Even tho we started late. Here's how it went:
Spelling - not so smooth.....LOTS of grumbling, trying to get us back in the 'groove'. Whining, grumbling, complaining, not necessarily about spelling, but about 'doing school'.....I'm hoping that fades with time (yea, and I my thighs will be thin, chocolate will become a health food and the world will be at peace!).....took a test over lesson 10 words, but refused to even LOOK at them, let alone go over them, so.....he got 3 wrong. It was a 'pre-test' and I make him write his mistakes TEN times each. Not a happy camper. Did Lesson 11, but I also am trying to get him more familiar with cursive and make him write out his words only ONCE in cursive, and he does an absolutely BEAUTIFUL job!!!! It's like art, or something!!
FUFI - (Further Up and Further In for those who don't know) - finished the exercises for chp. 4, drew a picture of the pale sun and the huge buildings and the.....despairity of it all, and it actually came thru in how he drew it.....interesting. Read about sound waves, learned ALOT.
Math - continued on to lesson 10, which is 8 plus 2 to make 10 to add 8's. AND HE GOT IT!!! I really think we've turned a corner in this math issue!!! And he's 12 years old.....maybe that one article is right, eh? At least for this child. Watched the DVD for lesson 10, then did 4 pages of exercises. At one point, I thought he was doing something wrong and started to correct him....to which he told me the correct way.....I checked the teachers manual.....he was right!!! DUUUHHHH.....
Science - Unit test was interrupted last week by Grandpa Joe's death.....so I decided I would help him review and then just take the test. We reviewed mostly vocab words and then I read him some sections....took the test, got an 85%, which I allow as a B+......I was pleasantly surprised, the pre-test and all things considered.
Reading - now, small son cannot STAND this reading program for some reason. Can't figure out why, b/c he LOVES to read. I think he just doesn't like the 'busyness' of the workbook.....not sure. anyway, he finished lesson 8 worksheets. Under protest.
English - amazingly, this child LOVES sentence diagramming. Dare I think it?? Is this another one like his sister and I?? Who thinks English is fun and all that?? Not bad for a dyslexic, sensory intergrated, learnnig disabled boy, eh?? Anyway, we went over more simple subject and predicate and threw in some compound subjects and predicates. He even figured out how to diagram the double compound BY HIMSELF. WOW!
We left History for today. MORE review and another unit test. I just couldn't see putting him thru 2 in one day, when he really has never done 'tests' before. I'm still unsure of how I feel about testing.....but I DO know he will run into 'tests' in real life....on the job, in college......from God......just need to work on his review methods.
All in all, not a bad day......all things considered.
Denise aka The Domestic Angel
Comments
Jan. 17, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by ApplesofGold
That sounds like a wonderful day! What a great attitutude you have about the not-so-great mixed in with the great.
Holly
