For me, anyway. After a week of nothing but cold, cold, cold, today is simply, gloriously beautiful!
So, it's one o'clock in the afternoon and we're done. Considering we did not wake up until after nine (that was James and he was first -- we've all been battling some crud since leaving Prescott), we've cruised through school this morning and are now heading outside to ride bikes and clean the Suburban. I tried to talk the boys into letting me ride one of their bikes, but that was a no-go. Ah, well, had to try.
What does our Spring term look like, you ask? (Or not, but I'm telling you anyway.)
John-
Math: Math-U-See Primer, starting with Lesson 12. He's shooting for mastery, although I'm not. Primer is designed for introduction and familiarity. He's loving it, though, so who am I to say, "No, you're doing too well. We must speed up!"
Reading: Writing Road to Reading, reviewed all the first phonograms, introduced the first four two-letter phonograms. Then he read the first three lessons in McGuffay's Primer. Major Gummy Bears for that one!
James-Math: Math-U-See Gamma, starting with reviewing Lesson 5. We've pretty much wandered about and created our own problems, focusing on word problem solving. He's not intimidated by them one bit, and that's what I've been hoping for!
Reading: Two chapters of Burgess' Old Granny Fox, four-letter phoneme review, spelling
Both-Latin: Review, review, review. We're somewhere near Lesson 7-ish. (They're young, we're informal, it's all good.) James does the workbook pages from Prima Latina. John does what he's up for, which is surprisingly quite a bit.
Bible: "I am fearfully and wonderfully made!"
History: We'll do history this afternoon, during snack. This week we're picking up with Chapter 22: The Greeks Get Civilized Again. I am hoping to make Eklek this week!
I've requested a catalog for education from the National Gallery, and am so thrilled about doing more experiential, hands-on Art learning!
OK, well, the natives are restless! I'm out of here. Just wanted to touch base today, as I plan to go to bed at a Decent Hour, and a Decent Hour falls long before the truly good Blogging Hour.
Kiss those babies! And don't forget, if you like what you see here, vote (link in the Best of Blog icon at the top). You can vote daily (which I didn't know until last night.)
~Dy
3 comments:
Changed your mind?
On January 7, you wrote about the contest, "I'm not posting this in the hopes of garnering votes, but rather just because I think this is a neat opportunity to learn more about the great bloggers out there- seriously, go check it out."
But today you're urging people to vote.... daily!
Kelly N.
Yeah, I caught a lot of good-natured ribbing from fellow bloggers and friends for not doing any "blatant self-promotion". It was either do it myself or they were going to do it for me (to me?) I know how weird they can get, and decided I'd rather not subject myself to that. So, there ya have it. :-D
Did ya vote? ;-)
Dy
Wow, how come some people never post until they have something not very nice to say? Dyan posted the link because most of us that KNOW her and love her know what a self sacrificing person she is and she DESERVES to be voted for. A lot of people don't KNOW they can vote for her (or that she's even nominated) and others didn't know you could vote daily which I pointed out to her (she didn't even know!). I'm sorry but I didn't see a gun to your head forcing you to vote, I saw, among her loving synopsis of the day a friendly note to tell you you CAN if you LIKE what you see. A lot of the other blogs on the list are advertising too, some even more. Dyan didn't ask for this nomination but she deserves it! SHe didn't ask for your snotty comment and she definately didn't deserve that. Please, if you don't have anything nice to say... well - you know the rest!
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