I woke up with hubby this morning and have been able to sit here quietly browsing my email and stopping to think.  I love waking up early, if only I didn't need to go to bed so early when I do it.  Which I never do and end up getting into a weird sleep pattern after a while. I digress...

I have some freshly brewed coffee and am slowly getting ready to face the day.  I left about 3pm to drive over to the boss'/friends' house.  I spent some time with my girlfriend first.  She has two beautiful boys.  Then work, in which I actually got some things nailed down for the website. 

I had left DS8 with several assignments to do while I was gone.  I found them on the table when I came in last night.  TWO of the assignments were writing assignments, which DS has a hard time with.  He finds it difficult to come up with ideas and then turn them into sentences.  I generally have to do alot of hand holding with writing...perhaps it is starting to pay off??  Or maybe he did better because I was not around??

The two assignments were:  Write sentences summarizing what you read in the Dead Wood book about forests and Write sentences telling me about Chester the Cat in Bunnicula.

For some reason, he didn't use ruled paper, just blank copier paper.  I see that his writing really does need to improve, but this is an advancement. 

Chester is a funny, cool, and determend to detroy Bunnicula.  Chester had tried many tricks But only one of them worked. Chester Put garlic around his neck, and kept Bunnicula from geting out from his cage.

WoodPeckers Like to make nests in snags.
Used for:  carpenter ants, woodPeckers, and termites.
Their are some woodPeckers that can Be up to 20 inch long, But only 38 are left.
Woodpeckers Peck on trees to get Bugs out.  It takes 2 woodpeckers to make a hole in a tree in a month.

I include these with the errors for my benefit.  I ALWAYS make the boys correct work they do. He still has a problem of capitalizing words that do not need capitalizing (or making the little letters look too big).  Homophone issues.  One of the sentences is incomplete.  Spelling mistakes, etc.

We have a busy day.  Speech therepy for DS6 then I have to fly over to the Fire Department for a fieldtrip with HS Group.  I think we'll work on lapbooks this afternoon - they'll enjoy that and maybe I can get some work in the house done too.  And I still have to find a log for the bird sanctuary tomorrow....