MONDAY
So far today is going better than last week. He did math but is moving slowly. He's still working on the end of lesson 12, which is the 3 times tables. He still needs the help of the blocks, but at least with those, he's not going over to the hundreds chart and counting them out anymore. I think he's picking up speed a little.
He started Typing Island today. I think it's going well. He spend the whole 45 minutes of his "computer" subject time doing typing. Which means he had to do French in another 45 minute session. I don't know much of what he did, because I was working with Harper on math during this time. I did see the computer once when he was playing a game. It showed some bugs and he had to hit the correct letter on the typepad to "catch" it. His high score on that game was 41. On another game, it said he was typing 14wpm, though I don't know how much I believe this one.
In French, I made him go back a few lessons so he could review. It's been a long time since he reviewed. I was out making lunch at this point, so I don't know all he covered. I know he got a 92% I know some of the words he reviewed were the French words for girl, girls, woman, women, boy, boys, men, man, run, drink, eat, read. Those were some of the ones I heard when I came in to check on him.
For our grammar lesson, he continued to learn about the difference between proper and common nouns. At the end of the lesson, we played a game where he had to stand for proper nouns and sit for common nouns. I read off a list and he got most of them right. He missed a few at the beginning, like "doctor" but he picked up the rest quickly. I hope that means there'll be some progress. On the worksheets he did, he wrote in cursive. That was good, it's been awhile since he chose to write in cursive.
In PLL, I'm making him redo the lesson he goofed around on last week. He's throwing a fit because I'm making him do complete sentences. After a thrown pencil, he's calmed down a bit. Now he's doing the sentences with help from me. I tell him the answer to things like, "What kind of shoes is the boy wearing?" because he doesn't know what wooden clogs are. Then he's turning them into complete sentences and writing them, asking for spelling help when he needs it.
TUESDAY
It snowed overnight so the little two wanted to go outside to play. Since they play in the front, I can't do school with Brenden in the school room (it's in the back of the house). He's been reading his new Life of Fred books, we just got them yesterday and he's already finished Farming and partway through Goldfish. Now he's doing a Learning Wrap Up about fractions. It's kind of funny, because he hasn't learned about fractions yet in MUS, but I think he must have learned enough from LOF to work it out.
In cub scouts, he learned about tall tales.
WEDNESDAY
Wednesday is our day off. We took Corey to work, came home and cleaned. Then we went to the library for story time, came home and ate lunch. Then we took Brenden to science class, then picked Corey up from work and came home.
THURSDAY
Brenden finished reading all his LOF books. Today the cord came for the keyboard, so they spent almost the whole day playing on it. Brenden is excited to start piano lessons. He also did typing practice on Typer Island.
FRIDAY
Today Brenden spent 45 minutes working through LOF problems. He spent 45 minutes on Typer Island. He really likes that game and is getting better at not needing to look at the keys when he types. Today we also did history. He read two chapters from Sign of the Beaver and Pocahontas and the Strangers and we discussed them. In SOTB, the boy, Matt, got his gun stolen. He also forgot to latch the door for his food storage and a bear got into it. So now all he can eat is fish and he has no protection. In PATS, Powhatan didn't trust the palefaces and the palefaces captured two natives. John Smith said he'd release the captives if Pocahontas would meet him at the village. We also learned about John Cabot, an Italian merchant who sailed for England. Instead of heading southwest, where the Spanish had gone, he sailed to the northwest. He explored the St. Lawrence Gulf and claimed the land for England. We also learned a little about Amerigo Vespucci, the man who explored and wrote about the New World. His accounts are the first printed accounts of the new land, so people started calling the new land "America."
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