Wednesday, November 20, 2013
I always do this to myself...
...make rash decisions that make more work for myself...That is what this blog is: More work for me. I am rethinking this blog. I get confused and can't remember if I posted things on our family blog or this blog. Let me consider if this was a mistake or not...Until then I will be writing down what we are doing in my old stand by: a composition notebook. Back asap with a decision....
Friday, November 15, 2013
Day 61 & 62: TGIT& TGIF
Thank goodness it is Thursday! Jake is spending the night, after craft club, at Nee and Papa G.'s house! We are still doing school tomorrow (and Lego Cousin Club and archery...) but it will be abbreviated.
Today (Day61) this is what we are working on:
*Chapters 34-35 of History of US Book 3.
*The Great Little Madison pg. 32-64 (Madison is an interesting guy! Reading this book is perfect timing for the movie we watched last week)
*Practice the Preamble
*Math L16
*Science Mod 6, review
*Spelling-review the words together
*Wordly Wise L2 sec's A & B
*Read more of Indian Captive (be done chap 13 by tomorrow)
*Craft Club @ Nee's house.
Tomorrow (Day 61) this is what we will be doing:
*Help Nee decorate for Christmas!
*Review weeks 1 & 2 History in Cycle 3
*Correct problems that you got incorrect in the last 4 lessons.
*Lego Cousin Club @ 1:30
*Archery @ 6:30
Today (Day61) this is what we are working on:
*Chapters 34-35 of History of US Book 3.
*The Great Little Madison pg. 32-64 (Madison is an interesting guy! Reading this book is perfect timing for the movie we watched last week)
*Practice the Preamble
*Math L16
*Science Mod 6, review
*Spelling-review the words together
*Wordly Wise L2 sec's A & B
*Read more of Indian Captive (be done chap 13 by tomorrow)
*Craft Club @ Nee's house.
Tomorrow (Day 61) this is what we will be doing:
*Help Nee decorate for Christmas!
*Review weeks 1 & 2 History in Cycle 3
*Correct problems that you got incorrect in the last 4 lessons.
*Lego Cousin Club @ 1:30
*Archery @ 6:30
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Day 60: Hump Day
*Read chapter 31-33 in The History Of US, Book 3
*Review Week 1 & 2 History Sentences in Foundations cycle 3
* Math Lesson 15
*Practice spelling words on own
*KWO
*Read 1/2 of chapter 13 in Indian Captive
*Boy Scouts/Mutual
*Search for Mommy's missing keys for over an hour
*Worked for a couple of hours on Lego Robots for Friday's Lego Cousin Club
*Review Week 1 & 2 History Sentences in Foundations cycle 3
* Math Lesson 15
*Practice spelling words on own
*KWO
*Read 1/2 of chapter 13 in Indian Captive
*Boy Scouts/Mutual
*Search for Mommy's missing keys for over an hour
*Worked for a couple of hours on Lego Robots for Friday's Lego Cousin Club
Day 57 & 58 & 59: The Biltmore Estates, Co-op Day & Organization Day
Day 57:
I didn't right it on the board and can't find my list of what we did on Friday...So, I will just use our day trip to The Biltmore Estates as day 57. Lots of history and so much fun!
Day 58:
Co-op:
Lego Robotic Engineering:
IEW: Turned in Lesson 8 paper and working on Lesson 9-taking two reference paragraphs and writing one paragraphs from the information.
Science Lab: 7.3 and 7.4 Petrification and something about leaves...can't remember right now.
(we left a few minutes early because Jake had a headache. After medicine, lunch, and resting he felt better)
Jake took his spelling test for last week and pretest for this week. We also read a couple of chapters in The History of US Book 3 and a couple of pages of The Great Little Madison, and a chapter in Indian Captive.
Then we went to the Veteran's Day parade. We met our favorite veteran, Papa G., there and Nee and some friends.
Day 59: We spent the whole day organizing Jake's room (done), changing the school rooms location, and making a spare bedroom. A real education!!! We also went to the library for Lego Club, and Jake spent time working on his robots for Cousin Lego Club on Friday.
I didn't right it on the board and can't find my list of what we did on Friday...So, I will just use our day trip to The Biltmore Estates as day 57. Lots of history and so much fun!
Co-op:
Lego Robotic Engineering:
Science Lab: 7.3 and 7.4 Petrification and something about leaves...can't remember right now.
(we left a few minutes early because Jake had a headache. After medicine, lunch, and resting he felt better)
Jake took his spelling test for last week and pretest for this week. We also read a couple of chapters in The History of US Book 3 and a couple of pages of The Great Little Madison, and a chapter in Indian Captive.
Then we went to the Veteran's Day parade. We met our favorite veteran, Papa G., there and Nee and some friends.
Day 59: We spent the whole day organizing Jake's room (done), changing the school rooms location, and making a spare bedroom. A real education!!! We also went to the library for Lego Club, and Jake spent time working on his robots for Cousin Lego Club on Friday.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Day 56: Fall in the South...
To Do List: (APA: American Patriots Almanac, SNB:student notebook, MW-memory work)
School outside...
Life is good!
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Day 55: Why you shouldn't do school until 6:30 pm...
You shouldn't start school at 8am and work until 6:30pm because the next day you are too burnt out to want to do anything! I had a long list for Tuesday and we did it all (except reading 1/2 of the anti federalist papers. We only read part of it). Besides going to book club at the library (a homeschool club-not put on by the library, just done at the library in the Teen Room. It is just a group of hs teens that read and discuss books, more than 50 years old, on their own. They discussed The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe this month. Next month it will be The Wizard of OZ), lunch, and a couple of breaks we worked all day long. We proved we could do a mountain of work in one day and we aren't going to do it again. (Notice I didn't say never...It was long and horrible, but it may happen again...just not any time soon!)
Today we took it easier. We watched about 3/4's of the movie: A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation. After (and during) we discussed it and went on to do some math review worksheets. We did a little reading and Jake ended the day with a lesson on honesty and integrity at church and reading from The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood by William J. Bennett. When I went in Jake's room to tell him goodnight he asked if I could bring in post it tabs so he could mark a quote he wanted to remember (he gets that from me) and the only ones I could find were pink. I gave them to Jake and he looked at them and then back at me and said, "Really? Pink post it's for a book about being a man?" We both laughed and he read me the quote and marked it. This is what he marked:
"There was once a common understanding in our society among men that there are standards of action and behavior to which men should hole themselves. Men, the code dictates, among other things, keep their word, whether in writing or not, men do not take advantage of women, men support their children, and men watch there language, especially around women and children. The code of man is fading."
We are lucky that the code is honored in our family, but Jake recognizes it is fading in the world...that it has faded. Hopefully we are raising a teacher and leader who will help bring that code back.
Today we took it easier. We watched about 3/4's of the movie: A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation. After (and during) we discussed it and went on to do some math review worksheets. We did a little reading and Jake ended the day with a lesson on honesty and integrity at church and reading from The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood by William J. Bennett. When I went in Jake's room to tell him goodnight he asked if I could bring in post it tabs so he could mark a quote he wanted to remember (he gets that from me) and the only ones I could find were pink. I gave them to Jake and he looked at them and then back at me and said, "Really? Pink post it's for a book about being a man?" We both laughed and he read me the quote and marked it. This is what he marked:
"There was once a common understanding in our society among men that there are standards of action and behavior to which men should hole themselves. Men, the code dictates, among other things, keep their word, whether in writing or not, men do not take advantage of women, men support their children, and men watch there language, especially around women and children. The code of man is fading."
We are lucky that the code is honored in our family, but Jake recognizes it is fading in the world...that it has faded. Hopefully we are raising a teacher and leader who will help bring that code back.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
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