Saturday, 7 December 2013

Saturday December 7

Cheer this morning, another trip to Abby at 9 am.  

Genevieve stayed up last night past 11 pm!   I went to turn off her light and she was still reading, she was a little tired this morning.  

Now I'm tired and she's itching to stay busy and do work, I think I need to get more stuff organized that she can do by herself.  

She drew a map of her cheerleading placements during her routine.  Here is the map, she starts out on number 1 and moves all over the floor.  She then showed me her routine and asked me to check if her map was accurate, and it was :)



Now what to do to occupy her, lately she has been ancy and wants to being doing something all the time.  

Tomorow she has a cheer demonstration in abbotsford, yeah 5 trips to Abby in 4 days ;)

I'm adding a few video's of Nathan and Genevieve's piano recitals, they happened in December but I can t find a post so I am adding them to this blog post.



 

Friday December 6

Classes at tla this morning.  Glad we are back, although I don't really like driving to abbotsford.  It was so cold this morning, and we were running late, yet again!   We had oatmeal in the car on the way to school, at least it warmed up the kids, I had put on water to boil for oatmeal, then saw I only had stealcut oats!   Ackkkkk they take about 20 minutes to cook, so we ate in the car.  Both Nathan and Genevieve had a good time in class today, I think Genevieve liked the crafts.  

Next up was ocupational therapy.  While Nathan was at ot, Genevieve and I read a book on ancient Egyptian myths.  She was very interested in these, and after each one she wanted to talk about what the myth explained.  The first one we read explained why we don't see all the moon all the time.  It's a good book and we had fun reading it.  

We then went home, had some down time and dinner.  I took Nathan over to a new friends house, while his dad watched the boys, and the moms and girls went to a tumble practice at twisters gymnastics.  Genevieve had such a fun time!   I think this will be our new Friday fun.  The coaches at twisters were so helpful with Genevieve who's working on her back walkover. She is so determined to get it!  They are very technical and that's exactly what Genevieve needs, she will take their critique and apply it.   Once you tell her place your hand this way or arch your back or whatever they tell her she will work on it until she perfects it :)

 

Thursday, 5 December 2013

Thursday

Genevieve started her writting book and liked that, she is so independant.  

I gave Nathan some math worksheets to show him how much easier it is for him now :).  It was going so well until he was 4 worksheets in and got to the subtracting 9 trick.  It is so frustrating that he gives up as soon as he thinks it's hard.    I told him he could stop there.  Not sure how we will get around this mind block he has set up for himself.  I know I have to build up his confidence.  I know it took 4 years if public school to knock at how he feels, I just hope it won't take me 4 years to overcome this:).  

So we stepped away from math and Nathan and I worked on grammer island, of what protestations I had when we first started, he said it was to easy it was boring, but I knew it was not, it was foreign territory for him, he wanted to shut down.  We managed to work through quite a bit and he became quite ingaged in what he was learning.  

We have dental appointments and cheer later today so not sure how much more schooling we will get accomplished today 

Here is a story Genevieve worked on today. 



Oh and another I found she did last night at bedtime



Wednesday

An even busier Wednesday

We had to drop Jeff off at the airport this morning!

We went out for breakfast and played math gAmes for about 1/2 hour.  

Physio then hockey skating. 

In the evening we went to a soccer wrap up.  




Tuesday dec 3

Art class,library, and piano lessons.  

Math games, hmm I forget what else we did


Monday december2

Well we got up early to take Jeff to the airport only to find his flight was cancelled because of blizzards in alberta. 

So we went out for breakfast, then went home to regroup, I decided we should go renew our passports.  

So I brought with us story of the world to listen too and discuss.  It was okay but not the best thing to do in the car, especially this chapter I think.  It was a short chapter but it contained many new vocab words for them. 

We discussed both on the way to and on the way back.  This chapter discussed early writting of both Egyptians and people who live in Mesopotamia.   

Genevieve wrote a story of what she learned. 




Saturday and Sunday December 1

Saturday was my birthday and we had lots if kid stuff happening, cheerleading practice, Nathan's last soccer game of the season.  He played an awesome game, the best so far this year!

Sunday is a lazy day of eating decorating and chess.  Nathan has been begging to learn how to play chess, so today we taught Nathan, and Jeff needed a good review as he forgot as well.  So far so good, although I think they are going to need to call a truce, this is the game board now. 

Sunday, 1 December 2013

Friday 29


Story of the world.  Thank you again Rachel for sending us the book on cd!   I love how Nathan and Genevieve really love listening to this story, and I think it adds some interest, as mommy is reading our language arts books, this just makes it a little fun.  The kids can do some other things with their hands while listening.  They usually start off playing something and then get involved in the story and give it 100%.   

So we read chapter 2.  Did some map work, looked on our map where the Nile delta is on a present day map, received where the Fertile Crescent was.  So we could see how close they were.  

We learned about the story of Osiris and set.  This is an Egyptian myth which explains why the Nile floods every year.  We discussed how this myth is not true but how myths like these came about.  We talked about how at that time the Egyptians did not have any scientific knowledge to explain the flooding, so this myth helped them explain why the flooding happened. 



We practiced oral narration as both Nathan and Genevieve related to daddy what they learned in chapter 2.  I really like the discussion questions that are in the activity book.  Every week we will do some review of the previous week.  Next day I plan to review nomads, where the Fertile Crescent is, the Nile delta, where upper and lower Egypt is, how they combined to 1 kingdom, Pharos, and the story of Osiris and set.  

We also practised oral math questions. 

Piano practice.  Nathan and Genevieve are practicing a duet of silent night.  I am excited this is my favorite song.  It sounds terrible at the moment :).  It is definitely a unique skill to play a song on the piano together.  They will need to practice quite a bit.  



Wednesday October 27

Our typical busy day.  Ocupational therapy, and hockey.  Piano practice happened as well and well I forget what else happened.