Jason went to work for a while today. Cue screaming--children of course. Moms don't scream.* They just eat every brownie in the pan. We survived and even got some things done this morning. I think.
Harry worked on his math some more. He did another three pages without me even sitting on him to get them done. Monday we will start with new material, so we'll cut it down to one or two pages--he'll be very relieved.
While he worked on his math, Sam did some pages in his phonics work book. Sam loves workbooks--he feels very accomplished to say "I did 5 pages today!" And he usually has done five pages. I don't push him, if he wants to work on them great, if not, great. Usually he does a few pages, then goes to play for a while and does that a few times during our lesson time.
Today I put Annika on my lap while the boys were working and read to her from a nursery rhyme book we have. She loved the nursery rhymes. It was so cute. Her favorite was "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater." She's been coming to me and asking me to say it all day long. And I can't just say it once, if I would she'd have me saying it all day non-stop.
Back to our day. After math we had a snack (I know, hard life, right, but it was 10:30 and the little people were hungry, all of them). And a girl from up the street came to see if Harry could play. I wanted to say no, but we just moved here, there are only a few kids on the block, and they all go back to school Monday, so this was the last time during our school hours that they would do this. Of course, if I had realized that she would stay and stay and stay at our house until almost 1, I would have said no. (And yes, it's my fault she stayed, I was the one who invited her to lunch, so no more complaining.)
After she finally left, Harry finished a spelling lesson. It was on the long-vowel A. Yep, we're doing exciting stuff here. Oh yeah, I meant to say that during snacks, I read the kids a story about George Washington, the farmer. Yes, he was our First President, I know, but this one focused on farming. We also discussed crop rotation. Different than crop circles. And as long as I'm putting every little thing we did in this post, I read them two chapters of the Mischievous Martens at breakfast today.
Spelling was the end of our formal lesson time today. Harry also read a bunch of books on armor, his Bionicle Encyclopedia, built several pyramids, and talked with me about the Greeks and Romans. He wants to learn Latin now, so he can be true Roman. Oh my. What have we started?
*We don't scream much, and usually not when the children are around. Usually. It doesn't mean that it's wrong or never happens. But eating brownies is usually preferable. Although sometimes you have to scream and eat brownies. It happens.
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