Day 24: This was the plan...until the car broke down

I spent the afternoon driving an hour and a half to Aaron's office (yes he commutes that far, one way, every day...Don't get me started on this economy!!!),  to bring him home from work since the car broke down.  That stinks but I have a handy husband who is going to be able to fix it.  Not to mention the fact that whatever broke (pulley something-a-rather. . .) didn't do it until he got off the highway and was just a couple minutes from his office.  Tender mercies from the Lord!  And the replacement part only cost $20.

The board was filled with the big plans I had for Jake today. . .

 Spelling did not happen.  We did finish Guests by Michael Dorris .  It is an amazing book.  Read it.  You will love it.  Jake reviewed his math and is ready for his test tomorrow.  We are really through lesson 8, but Saxon has you go through 8 lessons before giving the test that only covers 4 lessons.  It sounds crazy but it works.  You are continually reviewing-a good thing in math.

 Jake is finishing reading chapter 2 of Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold right now.  Check that off the list.  The whole car issue threw a bit of a wrench in our afternoon plan to do the study guide for science.  The test will still be tomorrow.  I am going to help Jake with the study guide in the morning and then do the test in the early afternoon.

 Co-op was fun.   In IEW (I never finished writing in what we were doing in there on the board. . .), we learned about adding -ly adverbs to our papers, turned in the "Virtual Keyboards" paper, and got back the paper on "Tablets and Touchscreens"-which Jake got a 35/35 on.  AWESOME!

 Jake and his partner finished up with pulleys early in Lego Robotics Engineering so they got to play around and come up with their own pulley systems.

 Here's the pulley Jake came up with while experimenting.  He was pretty proud of it.

 Science lab was fun today.  We tested variables in science experiments. 

 Eggs floating in salt water.  Very cool.

 And our cardboard boats (powered by gum, tissue, and soap.  Which one do you think moved?), after they sunk. 

 On the way home we stopped by the park to swing for a few minutes.  I am a cool mom like that. 

All in all I guess we covered almost everything, even with the unscheduled road trip.