Magic Flute

Today we started off the day with Math,  Gigi did not want to do her math book, she said she was bored of it.  She said it is too easy and review.  She is on lesson 21 and so far it has been review for her.  I am glad I ordered her grade 4 math instead of grade 3.  If she carries on at this pace she will be done 4th grade math in 5 months.  So I signed up for a trial of Dreambox, and she did that today for Math.  She enjoyed it so far, she is just doing the assessment.  I'm thinking this might be a good supplement for her in math, and maybe slow her down and deepen her knowledge a bit, instead of her just keeping on skipping ahead grade wise.  She is completing 2-3 lessons in 1/2 at the moment.  I had no idea she could do the math that fast, and all of her answers are always correct, a couple of times I thought aha I found a mistake, but I just could not read her numbers.  Since Gigi was doing dreambox, Nathan wanted to do dreambox as well.  He wanted to show Gigi how it works.  So they did their math work on dreambox for about 1 hour and 15 minutes. 

Next up we did some work Poppy and moving beyond the page.  Although we have finished the novel, we still have a few activities to do to complete our novel study.  We did some worksheets on suffixes.  And then we worked on starting a three paragraph essay.  We worked on the outline today.  They were given topics for each paragraph.  They then had to come up with the topic sentence (main idea), and 4 supporting details and a conclusion for each paragraph.  Tomorrow we will work on turning their outlines into paragraphs.  And if we have time some editing.

And that was all we had time for!  We needed to eat before we left for Physio singing, because I promised the kids I would take them swimming after.  So off to physio, where Nathan worked very hard, and Gigi expressed herself wonderfully to music.  She played a duet with her instructor which was wonderful.  Gigi picked a tune from the song someone like you and played it, and her teacher accompanied it, while gigi made up her own lyrics.  Her teacher was talking to her that a lot of songs are just a few chords and when you make changes like gigi did it becomes your own song instead of  Adele's song.  I should have recorded this one! 

So next we went swimming.  The pool was deserted, which was perfect.  I gave both Gigi and Nate some swimming lessons.  Gigi has almost perfected her stroke she is turning a little too much as she swims, but her stroke looks wonderful.  She swam about 15 lengths of the pool.  Nathan, was somewhat hesitant for instruction, but he did pretty good too!  His shoulders are doing so much better than they were a year ago, although they still dislocate all the time, he seems to have a better understanding of where his arm is in space.  He is able to move his arm without dislocating it swimming.  I only got Nathan to swim 2 lengths of the pool, as he had already worked out 1 hr at physio, and I did not want him to overdo it.  We ended up staying 2 1/2 hrs as Finn and Anika showed up at the pool, so gigi and nate played with them for a long time. 

So because we stayed so late swimming we did not get home until 4:30, I still had to cook dinner, get Genevieve bathed, as she needs to dechlorinate, as the chlorine really bothers her.  So we had to eat and all get ready to go by 7:10.  Of course I was in the bath tub at 6:30, and I really need a blowdryer, Jeff make sure I buy one when we go to Costco, going to an opera with soaking wet hair, was not the greatest, and I am sure the people driving by me while I was trying to dry my hair with the heat from the car vents thought I was a little crazy!   But we made it to the opera in time.  It was a fantastic experience, and sitting in front of us was our piano teacher!  That was pretty neat for the kids, she talked to them about the opera and about what they thought.  At intermission  they were serving tea in royal doulton tea cups, we all had a cup of tea.  As Nathan and I sat down to drink our tea, I watched my little Gigi daintily drink her tea in a very pretty dress, with shoes with heels on them.  As I had to sit down so I don't spill my tea in my very comfortable granny shoes.

We were so busy drinking our tea, we forgot to take a picture of us, and it was super long so after the kids were just plain exhausted.  It was not over until 10:30, the kids were sooooo tired!  They had wanted to come to the opera on Thursday because you get to meet the singers after the show, well Nate and Gigi were too tired.  Gigi was actually grumpy and said I just want to go home, can we please go home.  So we didn't get a chance to really discuss the opera too much after like we usually do as the kids were just too exhausted.

Can you please just open the door!  But look how handsome he looks, he does like dressing up.  

Do not take a picture of me, I want to go to bed.