Monday, October 25, 2010

Today is the beginning of a new week! I love have a fresh start with each new week.  School went more smoothly today that is has for the past week! I think Jaedon enjoyed Math more today since we got to play with coins.  He did such an awesome job! Adding in his head just like that. Also, he did his subtraction problem right the first time! He has been struggling with borrowing since we started it about 3 weeks ago.  For example, he would have this problem:  73-29 =   and he would switch it in his head to say: 79-23 and answer it: 56.  today he remembered to borrow! and got it right! I am so proud! He was pretty excited about that! Science tends to be the subject he favors.  He has an excellent memory.  Staying on task is still very hard for him and I dislike being a taskmaster.  Times call for it now.

We started cursive last week. today we started the letter Ee and he was none to happy about it.  Not because it was cursive but because his "Ee" didn't look like mine.  I made it a point over and over again that I have had 20 or so years to perfect my "Ee" and he has only started on it today.  I told him that it will take lots of practice and that one day he will have a beautiful "Ee" too. He felt better and am hoping he remembers that I don't want perfection, I just want him to put forth his best and give that to me.

Our school day started around 10am and will be ending at 4:30pm.  We had an hour break for lunch.  So it took us around 5.5 hours today which is considerably better than all of last week!

pure craziness on a daily basis.

Things have been insane the last month.  Well maybe getting more insane is the right way to put it. This past week has been extremely off kilter. Tuesday, after days upon days of frustration with how the boys treat DVD movies and PS2 games. I went through all of them and threw away all the horribly scratched unplayable ones.  Then I proceeded to pack the rest in a garbage bag and put them in the storage closet. They are banned from movies for a month. This is only way that I know how to teach them that they need to take care of their things.  The house has been pretty quiet without a constant movie or game on. truthfully, I am enjoying the less noise.

School has been a mark of frustration this week.  Jaedon is having a really bad attitude about it and it shows when he is doing his work.  He will take as long as he can to do a particular assignment.  He spent 2 hours yesterday doing Geography.  All he had to do was identify 10 states and write down the names.

We have started reading through Exodus at lunch time.  They both really enjoy it and are able to recall what i read.

Today, i let them have some play time for about an hour hoping to get some energy out.  we are starting school in 10 minutes. hoping and praying that the Lord will take control and take our school day.