Yikes, I have forgotten to post in a while. I have probably forgotten exactly what we did.
10/30 - Halloween - we did a short school day today. I am sure we started late because I have been feeling lazy lately. We were getting to the end of our government/presidents books. Both Kali and Sierra had gotten to the review pages in their math books. They both cried because their were SO MANY PAGES... there were 5. They are so spoiled and I told them so. If they went to school they would have 5 pages just for homework and several pages during school. Sierra eventually bucked up and did it without complaining. Kali cried almost the whole time complaining that she didn't know how to to do it. She did fine after I explained some of it to her. Sierra and Kali also practiced their presentations. Practiced instruments
11/3 - Last of the government books, Math, practicing presentations, Government class, did presentations, had friends over that evening - girls did presentations again, daddy gave a mini government lessons. Practiced instruments
11/4 - Election day. Practiced instruments, Sierra is still working on Caddie Woodlawn. Took the kids voting with us. Watch election results and colored a map blue and red.
11/5 - My turn to host our Middle ages group. Spent most of the morning getting ready for that. I had the girls practice their instruments. Do some reading. We may have skipped math. For the middle ages group we focused on Japan and wrote Haikus, play a shell game, made and ate onigiri, and made pretend wood block prints out of foan meat trays.
11/6 - choir, called our friends in Colorado, Kali went to a Space Center and did a simulated space ship thing with aliens and everything - fun, fun.
11/7 - Back to a real school day. I was highly unmotivated since it was Friday, but I pushed on anyway, but we didn't start until 11:30am. Started our new unit. Finishing up our trip around the world via picture books - the Middle East. Grammar - articles. Kali cried the whole time because she said figuring out whether to use a or an was too hard... Luckily I have had a crying 8 year old before and I know that this will pass. Copywork, Math, Reading, Instruments.
Sierra FINALLY did her multiplication test in under 3 minutes, so now we can stop doing it every day. I am now going to focus on simple division with her, not timed, but just have her do a page each day until she becomes more confortable with it, so we can do long division soon.
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