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Overall A Good Day

2/5/2013

So the day started off slowly with the lad wanting to watch his Dad play a computer game.   They were having fun and I was moving slowly so that's just the way it went.

Once we got started though things went well.

The lad did his math through A+Tutorsoft.   He complains but he actually likes this program. He just doesn't like it when I print off sheets for him to do. He'd rather do it all on-line. :)

We then did "target the question". I thought the lad would like this program but thus far he finds it too easy and rather boring.   Hoping it will improve as time goes along but right now...it's very much ACH.

Started with Essentials in Writing. He doing the grade one material as I haven't focused on doing writing with him and I figure we can zip through things we already know and move on from there.

Here we are doing lesson 5A.   Yes, we skipped the first five lessons as well..they were too easy.   And this lesson I thought would be easy but my... what you think will take five minutes stretched longer than that.

The one question was about describing your brother/sister. he doesn't have one so I said pick something and give me five descriptive words for it.   he did Star Trek: has phasers, space, ship, enemies. He argued about the having pets one because "MOM, I have all the pets that I want!"

Then off we went to visit a friend for lunch and a chat/play time. Then off to do gymnastics. We didn't really do gymnastics today so much as we just had a let's play and have fun time as a group. He had fun and ran off some energy. :)

To the library to work on some First Nations pages I had made up.

First peoples of Canada website proved to be helpful.

We also borrowed some books from the library. We have one page left to fill out and we hope to make a long house tomorrow and Thursday. :)

Then back to a friends house to play and relax and home for supper, some tv and bed. :) All in all a good day.

This week is proving busy so

1/30/2013

We are focusing on the essentials this week.

We're doing A+Tutorsoft Math and Target the question. The lad is enjoying Tutorsoft math. He's quite uncertain about Target the question.   It's not as interactive and just asks questions.   It will help him develop his critical thinking skills though I think. :)

We're doing our book a day reading.
We're reading in general (we always do) and when we read I ask questions, sometimes we draw pictures, and just incorporate what we learn into life.

The lad did an impromptu science experiment this morning.   He cut open some hot pad hand warmers and explored the used pack. I think we'll open on up and see what happens if we mix it up.

As to what is keeping us busy?   Funerals, offering support to grieving families, trips to the big city, and various other endeavors.

That said we'll be doing other stuff as we can fit it in. :) I'll add more later...

Apple Pancakes

Recipe came from All-recipes.com
Ingredients
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 egg
1 cup milk
1 1/4 cup flour
1 cup shredded apple
1 1/4 tsp baking soda
1 tbsp sugar
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon

Directions.
Mix the dry ingredients.
Mix the wet ingredients in a separate bowl.
Mix together.
put on griddle until nicely browned on both sides.

Enjoy.
We found them to be lovely drizzled with maple syrup and a sprinkle of cinnamon sugar.

Gymnastics

My camera was too slow to get more nice pictures OR I didn't want to post pictures of children other than my son (neglected to get permission to do so).