Day 50: School in bed...

I am not feeling great, but school must go on!  Jake read Traitor..., the book about Benedict Arnold and will finish it this week. Jake should have been done with it last week, but he hates it.  He is not a fan of old Benedict Arnold.  Who is?  It is a good lesson that there are parts of history that we won't like but we need to learn about.  I don't like communism but we will eventually read Marx's The Communist Manifesto.  We read not just for enjoyment but to learn.  If we don't learn from our mistakes in history, we are bound to repeat them!

The whole finishing what he didn't get done, because of the surprise two night Scout trip (except his IEW paper-he did finish that), didn't happen over the weekend, so Jake was bummed when he realized he was on problem 20 of lesson 12...not 13.  So, we changed things up.  I had him finish lesson 12 and then do an Algebra worksheet.  Still Algebra, but not having to do a lesson from the book made his day.  The worksheet referenced Pascal's triangle so I got out our History of Math book and we started a

unit study on Pascal.  We read about his childhood (he was homeschooled :) ), and about his contributions in not just math.  Then we did a couple of the worksheets that went with it.  It was all about patterns and I am proud to say I saw them all before Jake did.  :)  And I thought I wasn't a mathematician!  We still have a few more games/worksheets to do and will finish the unit study up this week.

 It is amazing how stepping away from the book and just changing it up made it fun and not stressful at all (Jake was stressed!)  We spent a couple of hours (at least) on math and it wasn't because Jake was staring off into space-it was because we were having fun! 

Another amazing plus to homeschooling.  Throwing out the plan and still accomplishing so much!!!