Hockey, hockey, Hockey!

Wednesday, well I think this will be the day I officially dread.  Wednesdays are busy! 

 

Started the day off with reading poppy during breakfast.  We then switched subjects and jumped into math.  Genevieve continued in her math books, and Nathan completed 2 pages in Beast Academy today!  He likes to know how much and what is expected of him each day, he has definitely learned that if he just gets it done it gets done quicker.  Of course when hes not feeling great this will fly out the window.  I think we will keep on gradually increasing the amount of Math required over the next few months.   Genevieve is doing great with her math, except she definitely needs help with the calendar.  I found something funny today is that Gigi is definitely motivated by a feeling of accomplishment as she completes a page.  Nathan feels a sense of accomplishment when he learns something new.  Gigi really did not care to learn more about the calendar she just wanted it done.  Not too worried, I know she will learn when the start of each season is and be able to know the months in order better at some point. I will have to look up a song to sing for memorizing the months of the year.

 

Next up we jumped back to moving beyond the page and Poppy.  We did not finish all of our activities in MBTP today.  But we did do a bit of writing, and our chapter summary questions.  The wrting assignment was to write a story of something that had happened in your own life where you had overcome a fear.  Before I got the kids to write, I asked them to think about the topic sentence and told them that the topic sentence was to tell them what the whole paragraph will be about, they then needed at least 3 supporting sentences.  I also told them they needed a windup sentence at the end to conclude it.  Nathan wanted to print his instead of typing it, of course his hand hurt after printing the first sentence.  I printed most of the rest of his for him.  He dictated what I was to write.  This worked fairly well for Nathan and helped him I think say it out loud so he could hear what he was saying.  I think he was better able to think of what he wanted to say. 

 

Nathan's story of overcoming fear

Genevieves story of overcoming fear

Page 2 of Genevieves

Next up was homeschool hockey.  Both Genevieve and Nathan were very excited to start playing again.  They both played very well and lost very little skill over the summer. 

Home for 45 minutes and then off to cheerleading. 

Now I'm tired, but I am attempting to read some of julie bogarts, writers jungle tonight.

Hmm that looks like lots of homework for mummy