Took a bit of effort to drag the summer slugs out of their beds this morning...they were excited about school, but it still seemed early to them...8:15am, that is. We got to the office for Bible verses and prayer by 9 rather than the planned 8:45, but that was okay. Math was a bit of a tough start because I had to get Kat keyed up with her DIVE Math program on the laptop...couldn't figure out how to un-mute the sound...the whole thing was delayed so that ran into our Grammar/English time. Dane flew through his Math pretty fast and well. I worked on "wetters" (that's how Geneva says "letters") with Beau and Geneva in the basement. We practiced recognition of a-g, lowercase. Beau was only confident about "b," "c," and "f." He seemed to really like "f." Geneva had a hard time keeping her buns on her seat. The write-erase board stuff by Crayola was fun for them, but they didn't try to make any of the letters.
Grammar went very well, although we were behind on time. Dane studied a picture and answered questions, and they both did some work with synonyms/antonyms and vocabulary. Kat whizzed through that stuff, while Dane struggled with finding all the vocab words in his big dictionary. We could hear the pre-schoolers hooting and whooping in the basement, where they were doing magnetic motor-skill work with Bailey on this cool thing I found at the Lakeshore Learning Center.
Next we read aloud from Henty. Pretty old English, lots of awkward phrasing and words, but I thought it was very cool. Once the story picks up, I think the kids will engage more. As it was, Kat and Dane did pretty well listening. The little ones cut pieces of paper up with their new scissors, but they were pretty quiet.
The next subject was Latin. I was supposed to work out then, but the baby woke crying and I realized I hadn't worked out the feeding times right. Oh, well...will try to do better tomorrow. I set Kat and Dane up with their DVD tutors, but we got way behind here as well since Dane had an intro before his lesson, and then he didn't realize to stop watching before lesson 2 started, so he went too far. Kat was a little overwhelmed by all the work she had to do with one lesson, so I may try to make each lesson go for two sessions. Flexibility! How nice it is.
Lunch was next. We at closer to 12:40...so 40 minutes behind at that point. Bailey took the baby outside and the kids went out to play after eating, so I was able to eat and clean up in the quiet...nice break there. As soon as I loaded the dishes I called the kids back in for Lit.
Started "Robin Hood," and it was fabulous. The kids really enjoyed it, and even though Pyle's old English is a bit difficult, we all thought it was fun. This one is on the Kindle, so that's cool too. We were supposed to do Science last, but since we were so behind with our day, we decided to postpone that.
I took Geneva and the baby up for a nap, and I crashed for at least 20 minutes. It was very rejuvenating! Then I went on with my day...Costco, dinner, shower, birthday party for a dear friend WITH a dear friend...nice. But now it's late again, and I probably shouldn't have written all this, but I wanted to get it down while it was fresh. I have no wittiness in me after this day, so off to bed I go.
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