* Child-initiated
S up 1st (8:00) - *continues to work on recreating Flight of the Bumblebee on garageband by playing it slowly and then manipulating it digitally so it will sound right when he speeds it up.
W (8:30)*wakes up, practices guitar including his audition piece, goes to Mass
J (9:00)*wakes himself up, showers, gets a bowl of cereal and then starts on math. He meets with math tutor today.
B - I wake her at 9:00 a.m., *checks e-mail, eats breakfast.
I read aloud story of Tobias in Bible History.
S reads next chapter in St. Patrick's Summer Catechism.
After breakfast *B starts looking at parts of speech poster up on wall. This reminds her of Mad Libs. We've been doing these off and on and there is a pad on the coffee table. B wants S to participate so we do two Mad Libs.
B does some practice writing words that begin with f in cursive. She does very well.
B does lesson 21 orally in Getting Started with Latin. It explains about 1st, 2nd and 3rd person sing. and plural. She does well.
S does list of prepositions that take the accusative in Latin. That finishes up Ch. 25 in LfC.
B does one subtraction problem with borrowing and two expanded notation problems. Doesn't quite get the expanded notation thing.
S copies over a paragraph about Clara Barton in cursive. Not bad, could be neater.
W *practices piano
B and S *play with photobooth program on mac with much hilarity
J *reads web comics and looks at pics of signs from John Stewart Rally while I correct his math lessons.
B *played games on Webkinz
S does half a lesson of Saxon math
W to metro to piano lesson, J to math tutor
B *got old rug with picture of town on it. She got out trucks and was playing 'town'
S *played with his keyboard
B and S *watched recorded Fetch with Ruff Ruffman and Phineas and Ferb.
S *practices playing Flight of the Bumblebee on the piano. Picks out tunes on the penny whistle.
B * makes a book by cutting up pages and stapling them together. She's drawing faces and calling it 'facebook'.
J *reading more webcomics after tutor session.
B *finished making key chain out of gimp.
S* phone call with his friend Jack. They like creating video games together.
W * listening to The Man Who Was Thursday on audio.
S*scanned B's 'facebook' into art site he goes to.
W* practicing lots of of music
B and I work on Thanksgiving Tree poster.
J * still reading those web comics!
S* is majorly into beat boxing and making sounds a la Fred Newman. He perfected his water drop sound. It really sounds just like a drop of water dripping!
S is a wiz! I asked him if he could scan a picture of me and his dad into the computer and put it on facebook and he did it. He even edited out some spots that somehow showed up on the picture. He's amazing.
J and I did some Latin homework.
We all put up what we are thankful for on our thanksgiving tree.
Read aloud to B and S about Numa Pompilius from the Story of the Romans.
Read Jo's Boys to B
B* in the last couple of days, B's interest in playing violin has surfaced again. She took it out of the case and wanted to show me all the parts of the violin. I had to guess the names and then she corrected me if I got it wrong.
W and S * W showed S Librivox which he is really excited about. The went through the different samples, especially Shakespeare plays and listened to the different readers, laughing a lot about how the talent of the volunteer readers vary so much.
Our thanksgiving tree:
Lovely journal of your day. I love the the word, "Strewing!" and the "Facebook" B made.
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing the cool things that they do in an unstructured environment! My kids would choose to play on electronic devices all day.
ReplyDeleteHi Mandy! My kids did too for a while and they often go through phases where there is more of that than I am comfortable with. (For instance right now I am uncomfortable with my 15 yo olds screen indulgences). I talk to them about the problems I have with too much screen time and how there needs to be a healthy balance. I also try to strew other things that I think will seduce them away from the screen. And sometimes I just tell them they have to finish up whatever they are doing and go out and play. But you would be surprised how it evens out after a while and they start doing some really amazing things with their free time all on their own initiative. You have to be patient though. It can be hard but it is really good to see them self-regulate. I actually think they become more self-confident and self-disciplined because they learned it themselves.
ReplyDeleteWhat a good full day! My favorites were the "facebook" and the violin "lesson" for mom. :)
ReplyDeleteLee
I love this! Sounds like you had a beautiful day. Your blog name and design are great.
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