Workbook time this morning was again a chaotic scene. Daniel
started out playing on his own, but managed to make his way to our area
and was not satisfied long with a couple of crayons and paper. He
started demanding my attention. Still brainstorming. I know
I should try to find something he can do to occupy his time (it's only
like 20 minutes!), but I'm just not sure "what" that could be right now!
Caleb did great coloring today and I had him go
around the house and collect 3 objects in specific colors. Today
he said his favorite color was Black. So he found 3 black objects
to put in a basket and bring to me. Then he wanted to do more
colors. We went through most of the colors of the rainbow doing
this, and Caleb did a fine job finding objects of the specified
color! Joshua's workbook work went well (Telling Time).
This afternoon, I started to see the effects of
Joshua getting to bed a little late last night. He started moping
after our phonics work. He frowned when I asked him questions or
tried to start a discussion. I was getting a little
unenergetic-feeling myself, so I called a 15-minute rest period.
Joshua fussed about this. I explained to him the situation and
told him to lay on the couch for a while. He actually shed tears
because he wanted to play his computer games. I ended up using
that as a motivator by explaining that there is a time for work, a time
for play, and a time to learn. And I explained that playing
computer must come after learning on this day. I was looking over
the material when he walked into the kitchen after about 5
minutes. He asked me very politely, "mommy, may I come back to my
lessons now." And he did and he "cheered" up and we made it
through.
Joshua is not much into coloring. We worked on
coloring his hen. It turned out not too bad. I'm not an
artist and don't know a lot of techniques, but we managed to make the
hen look pretty decent. Check back tomorrow for the finished
product!
Well, we made it through our first "attitude" of the
new school year. It wasn't too terrible. I'll be praying
and asking God to give me the wisdom to know how to handle these
situations as they come along!
