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Becky - decided to try out Life of Fred this week, so I ordered them. We took the week off from math since she really seemed to be getting such a negative attitude toward it. Life of Fred arrived but she didn't even glance at the books. We'll try again on Monday. Becky had a full week though with American Heritage Girls nature hike on Monday (where we learned about the mnemonic device for knowing scientific classification: King Philip Came Over for Good Soup. On Tuesday she went to art class and continued her sunflower watercolor painting. Wednesday she started band with her trumpet. She was not happy with it however, as she found out there is only one other girl that she didn't know (she was hoping kids from the summer music camp would be there) and she was the only child out of the 5 there who couldn't read music. I don't know if we'll continue with it, or if it would be better to just get trumpet lessons. She did a lot of impromptu art this week also. She also continued to read Goosebump stories as well as rereading all the American Girl Samantha books. We worked a tiny bit on copywork and she also did her IEW homework for Aquinas Learning. Thursday was Aquinas day, which she just loves. She now peppers me all the time with how to say this and that word in French. She still has a lingering cough. Darn that cough. Tennis on Friday was cancelled due to rain.
Sean - Poor Sean. He is so terminably bored yet he doesn't want to really do anything. Stuck between a rock and a hard place. He did do some math but he seems to have completely misunderstood equivelent fractions. I have to sit down and clarify that with him at some point very soon. He did a bit of Latin, reluctantly. He did decide that for his 4H project he wants to design his own point and click video game based on holidays. It would have an Easter bunny actually searching for easter eggs (a pun on easter eggs in videogames) and it would be all mixed up with santa and the tooth fairy and other fun things. He needs to something community-wise with it. Maybe teaching others how to make a videogame or having sick kids in a hospital try it out??? Sean read more in Journey to the Center of the Earth. Slowly but surely we'll get through this book! He's ahead of me now, so I've got to catch up this weekend. Sean really wanted to go to the Jr. High activity on Friday evening. Since he so seldom really wants to do anything, I made sure he got there. He really likes it, even though he thinks some of it is silly. So that was a good thing. He also says he really wants to learn history by research. So this weekend I've got to set up This Week in History. I think he'll really like it. He also enjoyed learning more from Exploring the World of Physics. And we did another lesson in Harry Stottlemeier and he really enjoys that.
Josh - poor Josh! He has let himself get very behind in certain subjects. At the beginning of the year ( 6 weeks ago!) he was all gung ho, but he lost traction after getting so sick a couple of weeks ago and he hasn't gotten his footing. He's been spending a lot of time (a lot!) in front of the computer just entertaining himself and neglecting his duties). I have to admit I got angry with him on Wednesday night. But he took it okay and I do think it was a little bit of a kick in the rear to set him back on the right course. He had to miss CLC on Wednesday because we got stuck in a terrible traffic jam trying to get Becky to band and it made it impossible to get him to CLC. That hurt him because he really looks forward to CLC. I want to make sure that doesn't happen again. Anyway, I am determined that Josh needs to take ownership of his own life. He relies too much on me to nag him and keep him on track and I am just too scattered to do a good job. He needs to learn to do it himself.
That's all the time I have for now!
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