Today had a rocky start with both of my dear children inadvertently breaking the heart of the other through what could have been interpreted by an adult as insignificant actions.
Thankfully, the day progressed!
Sweet Pea had a great time doing his blindfolded binomial cube work as you can see in the picture here within this post. He is continuing to work on his reading skills with me and is generally a very hard worker, committed to getting his work plan completed. He also created a frog anatomy book…a work that he and his sister chose to do concurrently. This of course created frustration for him as she completed her book in about 15 minutes, while he took closer to an hour. He is adapting to his self created “work plan,” and we’ve found that creating the next day’s plan at the end of the current day seems to work well.
Bear struggled through the day, having had swim practice in the middle of the day, rather than in the evening. This meant she was working into the evening as opposed to being at swimming in the evening. I know this was disheartening to her as she noticed at one point in time that it “was already dark out.” She chose to research the Ginkgo tree and discovered on her own that we have one in our back yard. She was intrigued by the fact that the Ginkgo is referred to as a “living prehistoric artifact.” We’ll have to take a look at the timeline of life tomorrow to figure out exactly what that means. She is also working very hard to finish “Little House on the Prairie,” in time for her book club meeting on Friday at the Allen County Public library. She is hoping to meet some new friends there!
My greatest challenge right now is getting them started on their school work plans in the morning. They each have a checklist for “morning chores,” which Bear likes to complete prior to even setting foot downstairs. Pea likes to do most of his by himself–with a fair amount of proding from me–but also asks for help from me.
Since we’ve really only started Pea in our homeschool last week, we are just now covering the Montessori Great Lessons. I’m going to see if a little creativity in the AM will help them get started by reading “The Genesis of It All,” and asking them to paint in watercolor their interpretation of what it all might have looked like.
We’ll see how that goes….
Tell Pea and Bear I miss them already and will visit their blog often to see what they are up to.
We miss you too! Pea wants to know when he can expect the picture of the first fish Uncle Denny caught?