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FOR TODAY October 12, 2009

 

Outside my window… grey, wet, cold

I am thinking… I shouldn’t have assumed I was better and gone back to life full force so fast. We all know what happens to me when I do that. Relapse! ugh

I am thankful for… all the kids getting better.

From the learning rooms… planets explorations & facts, one by one. everything is slowed down and drug out so far this month, with all the illness we’ve passed around here. Moons and Muffins and MOoses for ms. Aa.

From the kitchen… still haven’t implemented my 2 week meal plan, not sure what will happen for dinner tonight - leftover chili?

I am wearing… yoga pants, my 1998 Old Navy Fleece

I am creating… muffins for counting and talking about words that start wtih M.

I am going… to rest as much as possible today

I am reading… The Accidental Best Seller (a Novel)

I am hoping… we’re over the worst of this stuff and everyone gets completely better asap. (finding it ironic that the last daybook I did was the same week we started getting sick, and I was thankful for good health & hoping no one got sick).

I am hearing…Veggie Tales Silly Songs & Jacob Two Two - yes, two TVs going at once.

Around the house… kids are mesmerized by the television. feeling the cabin fever combo of the weather & the sickies.

A few plans for the rest of the week: Celebrating Aaralyn’s birthday tomorrow, not sure what all else is going on.

Today’s boxes were pretty simple, I even ended up skipping Ks math - we don’t do math on Fridays usually so this week he will do math on Friday since I just couldn’t wrap my brain around it today to give him the lesson. When mama isnt feeling well, some things have to be put on hold !

Things we DID do today - made pumpkin soup, baked banana muffins, and the usual schoolwork. I added some fun activity cards today, I am not sure where I got them from but they are great, Aa hasn’t discovered hers yet, it says to hop like a frog (she doesn’t work her boxes in order/everyday). Also each of the boys had a strip that said to read any book for Book It and I did that in place of their reading books. And uhm OH brick building cards, they love those !  They worked on the next thing in their science notebooks, a cool page w/ the planets. I’ll take a photo when they are completed on Friday.

For today’s photo I have the completed posters for their August projects. Kieran’s was Weapons of the Civil War and Lochlan’s was The Statue of Liberty.  I am not sure what the October projects will be yet, the posters were supposed to be done last Thursday but Lochlan being sick end of last week pushed them over to this week.

Our latest issue is rushing through work/not taking their time/not wanting to spend the time making things (coloring, cutting well, etc) look nice. And it is very frustrating because I put a lot of time into planning and trying to make school fun. So I’ve been stressing how it is disrespectful to scribble on a coloring sheet, not listen, talk or mess around when I am trying to read, etc and we’re working on that. Exhausting. I did tell them that I especially need them to do their VERY BEST WORK because I would like to set up a special Open House for their grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. to come over and see what they’ve been learning this year just like the public school teachers do for mom & dad. I’m hoping the anticipation of this makes them (one in particular …) slow down & think through what he is doing instead of rushing to move on to the next thing, next thing, next thing.

 

Okay. Onto the photos ! Enough yapping from me ! I would resize them, but that is just too much work right now.