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Feb. 29, 2008
Homeschool Pajama Day!
Over at Tamara's blog: Training Hearts
I noticed last year they would sometimes do "Homeschool Pajama Day" on the last Friday of the month.
I have been wanting to do it but we've had things going on the past few months on that last Friday so this month we are just now getting to that.
Today was Homeschool Pajama Day at our house!
Here's the boys in their PJs! 
First we ate our chocolate oatmeal. Then Arel finished his Pac-Man Maze while I read the boys more of "Johnny Texas" (This link I just found gives a quote from each chapter and a child's drawing for each chapter...this is a great book to read to boys!)
Graph paper is the standard notebook paper in Peru (I think in most Latin American countries) instead of college rule like we are used to in the U.S. They sell notebooks of all shapes and sizes and all in graph paper! It's one of Arel's favorite papers to use for drawing because it makes it easy to draw things more exactly and in the case of making a Pac-Man Maze it's perfect. Notice the yellow dots...those are the "Pac Dots" that Pac-Man has to eat before the ghosts get him. Arel is BIG into Pac-Man video games and after he plays he loves to draw the mazes or "adventures" as he remembers them onto paper.
After reading we worked on Math. Mainly Dane worked on Math since he has a goal to finish his Math book by the end of April. He actually has it all planned out that doing two pages a day including tests he'll finish on April 10th. :) So we he did his Math and Arel and I worked on one or two problems but mainly Arel kept drawing while I downloaded pictures onto the computer. :)
Then we pulled out Dane's Monopoly game! Dane, Arel, Liam and I played with Heidi watching and playing with the left over playing pieces: the dog and the shoe. We didn't play to finish but just went several rounds until we all started getting tired of it. Dane and I counted up everyone's assets in order to determine the winner. Results:
Arel: $1, 505
Mom: $1,729
Dane: $1,866
and the winner.....(doo, doo, da, doo!)
LIAM: $2,094!!!!
Liam loves games like this and he just bought up property every chance he got and never seemed to land anywhere where he had to pay much.
Afterwards Dane decided to count up all the Monopoly money to see how much this game had. Total was: $16,410!
Then it was lunchtime and time for chores and such. The boys are mostly still running around in PJs. It was fun and we may try doing this every month.
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Mar. 6, 2008 - Untitled Comment
It's interesting that the notebook paper there is graph paper.
wonder why??