After Bible, Kat and Dane had a Math test and some corrections to do for Friday's work. I will grade them in a bit--hopefully they did as well as they did with Grammar tests from Friday! Kat aced her Grammar and Dane only got a couple points off.
We went ahead and read further into Henty today. The kids want to have a Viking party tomorrow to celebrate the end of our first book...Mom's gonna have to put some thought into that one. More on that later. As for our story, we are still near 879 A.D., and the Saxons have just helped the French to defend Paris and survive a difficult siege. A messenger appeared to Edmund to let him know Jarl Siegbert was nearby and was wounded. Upon finding Siegbert, Edmund was informed that Sweyn the "Left Hand" has abducted Siegbert's daughter, Freda. So Edmund sent Egbert to guard the Dragon and took 2 Danes and 2 Saxons with him in pursuit of Sweyn. After much difficulty, they managed to find Sweyn's camp. The northmen were assembling enough galleys to take them back down the river so they could head to the Mediterranean with Freda as their captive. Edmund dressed like a Dane and approached Freda secretly so she could be informed of his plan to rescue her. Edmund was unable to garner help from the Frenchmen in the nearby towns as those people wanted nothing more than for the Danish to build their boats and go. So Edmund and his group left to alert Egbert and instruct him to take the Dragon and block the mouth of the river in order to intercept the Danes. What will happen next?? We'll see....:)
No Latin today since we extended our History time. Once the book is finished, the kids will be filling in historical information (AND historical FICTION info about our story) in their book of centuries. Our next book is a Viking book, so we'll get a chance to see the whole thing from the Danish perspective instead. Cool!
I got my workout in--yay! Meant to do Turbo Jam, but I couldn't find the DVD for some reason. So I pulled out Slim in 6, and it absolutely kicked my tush. I could hardly walk down the stairs afterwards...good stuff!
After lunch, we did Literature. Bailey read from Robin Hood, and we decided to read outside today since the weather was so gorgeous. It was perfect! We have postponed our study of Mercury until tomorrow because of an important phone call I needed to take...yay for flexibility!
What could be better than all this fun and then NO HOMEWORK at night??? I LOVE IT!!! I must go now and hang out with all the kids while the baby is sleeping...and time to start supper soon too...Cajun Shrimp Fettucine and broccoli tonight...what a nice start to the week!
You have a great attitude Noelle. It is very encouraging. I was just telling a friend today that "some days" I can do it all and "most days" I can't but it's ok, it all gets done some time. We had a great full day of school and I even made PW"s tastiest meatballs over buttered noodles. Today was an example of "some days"!
ReplyDeleteOh wait Jeff just asked what I made for dessert?? Oops!