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.
