My computer is all over our kitchen counter right now. Dave keeps buying (or being given, by my brother) new parts every day or two. I think at some point in the very near future we are going to cross over from "fixing my computer" to "making me a new computer." I'm not sure where the line is, precisely. At any rate, it had better be working by next week, or, umm....else? Yeah, it's really out of my computer illiterate hands.
I felt sort of sluggish and unmotivated this week and continue to feel this way today, so perhaps a briefish update this week:
Ari:
*mostly did Singapore this week, after we finally managed to pass the first bridge in Life of Fred. He broke out the protractor for the first time in awhile, and apparently he's become a big fan of angles, as he asked Dave if next week in Math Olympiad they could work on "something with protractors."
*finished The Egypt Game and started The Golden Goblet. We're just going to get all this Egypt out of our systems so we can move on.
*learned some new words and anaylzed some new sentences in MCT. He gets excited when he spots his vocabulary words in the books he's reading, which makes me happy. We didn't do the paragraph lab for this week yet, because "we'll just do school on Saturday" is usually not really true. It's still Saturday, though, so who knows?
*has to write a report or make a display about something for his biology class. He has tentatively chosen the similarities and differences between plant and animal cells for his topic. I predict tears in our future.
Milo:
*is going through his math much faster over the past couple of weeks. Numbers up to 100 in Singapore.
*was moving through The Indian in the Cupboard so painfully slowly that I told him he could finish up Socks for his school reading instead. Today we couldn't find it so he read a library book instead (we did do some of our planned Saturday school).
*loves doing dictation in WWE. Huh. Who'd have guessed it. Apparently, he sees it as some sort of fun puzzle. I am never sure whether to worry about his writing at all or not. He has a really funky grip, which I gave up correcting after Dave's sister saw it and commented that her grip is very similar and that she's always thought it was dumb that teachers spent so much time trying to change her grip and she always went back to her funky grip again. Anyway, so it looks uncomfortable to me, but his handwriting is quite good and he doesn't complain about doing an age-appropriate amount of writing. The only excuse I have for worrying is that he writes really slow-l-y. But then, he does most everything slowly. He takes after his father.
Gus:
*finished Mouse Tales and started reading The Secret Three.
*is flying through Explode the Code 1
Everybody:
*watched Lilo and Stitch in Spanish this week. Then, inspired, they watched My Neighbor Totoro in Japanese.
*Learned about the New Kingdom of Egypt in history. We got an Egypt Usborne Kid Kit out of the free box at LEO this week, so we're going to play around with that a bit soon.
*had their last week of soccer, complete with team photos and pizza party
*went to Halloween Hikes at the nature center and had a great time.
And now I'm going to go take a nap while the kids play Wii!
4 comments:
Sounds like a great week! Egypt is a fun topic of study.
The Egypt Game is fiction? A mystery about little kids? Anyway - there was a novel by that name that I LOVED as a kid.
What dictation/writing exercises are you using?
The boys are SO big. I remember when they were just excellent fat babies.
Yep, that's the one!
Milo's doing Writing With Ease, and I'm pulling dictation for Ari from the books he's reading.
Now I feel like I will be to blame if something goes horribly awry with Milo's handwriting in the future!
I, too, do everything slowly. I annoy even myself with this but the faster I try to go, the slower I actually go.
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