Oh Joy...

Reading at dance class.

Apparently this week was a bust too. I just graded a bunch of Harry's work (and by grade I mean looked at it) and he had a bunch wrong in Latin, math, and grammar. And when I went to find Sam's I couldn't. It's either gone or I just imagined that we worked this week. I'm actually leaning toward imagining it.


Where do I go from here? I think a couple of lessons on following directions are in order--Harry's actual Latin was pretty much okay, he just didn't fill in sections of the charts. It wasn't that he didn't know the words, he just didn't finish the chart itself--so we don't know if the are singular or plural or male or female. I'll have him fix it on Monday and stay closer to him next week.

I will do a little review of grammar and math on Monday morning before we start anything else. Math shouldn't be a problem, he started Singapore 3B this week. The first lessons are on measurements--kilometers, meters, feet, and inches. It looks like he thought that a kilometer is one hundred meters rather than a thousand. So we'll go over that on Monday morning, he'll redo what he missed and we'll go on our merry way. Grammar is going to be tougher. He has been getting the same things wrong for a week or so now. Indirect and direct objects are his nemesis. So we'll reread the part in Grammar Island that talks about objects, I'll try not to pull my hair out and we'll go on our merry way. (I hope.)

Other things were better. Harry is reading an adaptation of The Time Machine (Classical House of Learning Literature) and The Impossible Journey to go along with history. We had a long discussion of Joseph Stalin which worked well with everything we've been hearing about Libya lately (I have got to stop listening to NPR in the car.). He finished his poem for "spec" in Building Language. I'll post it later. And best of all...we did science this week!!! I decided that doing everything every day wasn't working and now we have history on Tuesday and science on Wednesday. It actually worked. As did the science topic--electrical circuits. So Harry got out his snap circuits and we played after he did his work.

Jason brought home some dry ice this week. We had a blast (literally--they put it in bottles with hot water, closed the bottles and tossed them into the backyard.) It's nice to have a scientist for a Dad.

Sam read and read and read. He also kept going in MUS Beta--lesson 23. He actually used the MUS blocks to work out how to regroup in subtraction. But by the end of the week he had it and could work without the blocks. Emma was happy to see the blocks out and decided to do some regrouping herself, usually with the blocks Sam needed. Of course. We kept going in WWE--The Pied Piper. He has really good writing but spent more time decorating the paper than doing his work. First Language Lessons is going going going. He's on linking verbs and if I could find those packages of index cards I lost we would be moving merrily along. Where, oh, where can you be index cards.

Scary Annika

History is so fun when you are in second grade --Knights and the Crusades. I got a little worried when he kept playing Muslims vs. Christians though. The MUS blocks, the pattern blocks, the games outside were all the Crusades. But at least I knew he understood what he read. We did the maps and the coloring page too. Someday we'll get to all of the other fun activities. Science was playing with Snap Circuits with Harry and inspecting all of our batteries. He also recharged all of our rechargeable batteries.

That's about it for the week. Oh, and just for kicks, someone asked me if I'm having a boy or a girl.

I'm not.