Okay, there is NO doubt about it–my kids were HYPER again today. Nobody got very good sleep last night…Dane had a bad dream, Geneva lost her silkie blanket, Katarina went searching for it and couldn’t go back to sleep…it was not the most restful night. For that reason or some other, the kids have boundless frenetic energy. We are the antonym of calm here.
The Bible verses are going so well…it is impossible to describe the pleasure I feel when I hear my 3 and 4-yr-olds saying their memory verses before bedtime. I love Geneva’s cute twist on some of the phrases, i.e. “…yea, though I walk through the valley of MY DEATH, I will fear NO EVULL!” It’s some good stuff.
Math went well. Grammar took a little longer than usual. I introduced Dane to particular objects pronouns as they are used while diagramming. He knows all about OP (object of the preposition), but the new ones for today were DO (direct object) and IO (indirect object). They also took a quiz that related directly to their Grammar Jingles…Kat aced it, Dane did not. Dane will be working on this…
History was a little tough…I was terribly sleepy. Kat and I were chilly, so we snuggled under a blanket, and this did not help my drowsy state. I kept dozing off mid-sentence, so I gave in and let the Kindle read for me for a bit. That worked well, except that the Kindle voice doesn’t always have the right inflections…this can be good, however, since it makes us laugh and that kept me awake. :) I woke up enough to read for awhile again, but then I started dozing once more. I let the guy read a little longer, then we gave up. I remember that Wulf was working on training with his army, and that he was showing noticeable improvement. I remember that he was expressing his satisfaction with Osgod, and that Osgod was glad to be in his service instead of being a blacksmith. The next thing I knew, they seemed to be on their way back to the big city, so those 2 years passed amazingly fast (and in a somewhat monotone voice, I might add!)
After lunch we studied Western Samoa. The kids were not too thrilled with the picture of the feast on one of the pages. It depicted a “fire” of hot rocks with a pig lying on it (all parts intact), a whole bunch of taro root (which I described to them as being rather mushy) and a big pile of liver (maybe from another pig?) Not too appetizing… No one was wearing shoes in the picture, except the son-in-law. The families were described as being overtly Christian, which was nice to learn. There is apparently some Mormon influence there also (no surprise). The family we studied had one radio, no TV, no car.
For Astronomy, the kids made “advertisements” for the planet Earth. Dane’s was….expedient. It was good, but rather quickly done, i.e. tagline at the top was, “This place is good.” He did point out that Earth “has Wii,” and is “warmer than your place.” Fun! Kat’s was characteristically creative. She raved about the appeal of gravity, blue skies, and “slower spinning” (so you don’t age as fast). I love these and am glad we will have them to look back on.
As for my post title, I am realizing more and more that if I can “roll” with things and have a great attitude, it makes our school day pretty wonderful, even if I don’t get all the things done as well as I’d like, and even if the kids are so high-energy that I wonder where my straitjackets are. It’s all OKAY. We are here together, we are learning, we are striving to glorify God in what we do. And that, my friends, is a GOOD DAY!
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