Mondays... Daddys home

Mondays Jeff comes home are always a little off for us.  Nathan is usually highly emotional.  Today was that kind of day mostly, but overall it went pretty good.  We started the day a little later, by having a leisurely breakfast.  Genevieve practiced her piano first.  Then Nathan and Genevieve took Ginger for a run up and down the hill to get her tuckered out and well behaved for school time.  Nathan then practiced his piano, he did really well today, he practiced with Yoka for a solid 30 minutes.  He was really wanting to work hard today!  It was so awesome to see.

Nathan's posture is fantastic!  This is after 30 minutes!

Next we worked on MBTP and our essay. I worked with Gigi first while Nathan was doing piano.  She was really wanting to retell the story of Poppy, instead of doing what the assignment required.  I got her to read the instructions instead of me telling her what to do, and this helped.  She was able to formulate what she wanted to say.  I did help her a bit trying to get the idea of following the main idea of the paragraph, and also the topic sentence.

Genevieve's essay

           Mr. Ocax the owl is the king of the forest, because he is at the top of the food chain.  Mr. Ocax rules with fear.  Mr. Ocax can eat theme if they did not listen to him so he is the king of fear.  Mr. Ocax told a  lie to the mice that porcupine are vicious, and that if they did not ask his permission to go he could not protect them he did this to gain there trust. Mr. Ocax controls them with fear and lies!!!!!!!!!!

 

          Mr. Ocax's secret's are found out by poppy, and this is how she breaks the cycle of fear and power.  Poppy the mouse found a porcupine and found they were only bad to owls.  Poppy found an owl twice the size of Mr. Ocax and he is afraid the other owl will steal his territory, Poppy found out the owl is fake. Poppy is friends with a porcupine and gave Poppy a quill ,Poppy ties the quill to her self. Mr. Ocax came and Poppy ran into the the grass then Mr. Ocax started to talk to her then Poppy felt she had power so she came out of the grass Mr. Ocax came right out of the sky Mr. Ocax aimed right for Poppy she toke the quill and stabbed it in Mr. Ocax's foot Mr. Ocax is dead, the cycle of power is broken.

 

          Poppy life will now be happy that she is back safe at home.  Poppy got marred to a mouse named Rye.  Poppy and Rye have children.   Poppy has lots of fun with her new family.  Poppy is home.

 

 

 

Nathan then worked on his paragraph, while Genevieve continued working on her essay, and then she moved on to math when she was done.  Nathan while working on his paragraph was extremely tired, and his hands were aching.  We discussed that if he makes sure that he puts in 15 minutes 1 or 2 times a day of piano it would build up his hand strength and his hands would not hurt anymore.  He could see I think that the piano playing must be working out his hands finally :)  So Nathan was hard to motivate to get working on his essay.  So many things going on in his mind.  He finally managed to finish his paragraph. 

Here is Nathan's paragraph number 2, he has to finish number 3 tomorrow and then edit all three.

                Poppy found a gigantic fake owl and , Mr Ocax thought it was real, Poppy had discovered his fear,  and gained power.   The gigantic fake owl, scared Mr Ocax, because if he got in a fight with him, he would take his territory, and he would loose power.   Poppy gained power because Mr Ocax, had more knowledge than her before she took control of knowledge!  Poppy was not scared of Mr. Ocax because she felt powerful.  Poppy felt so much power that she killed mr. ocax and that’s how the mice took control tttthhhheee eeeennndddd!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Next up was math work.  Nathan worked on dreambox math today, he did 30 minutes of work.  Genevieve negotiated with me to read her novel, instead of doing math, and she would work on math while Nathan was at horse.  I readily agreed to this deal.

We had lunch and off we went to horse therapy for Nathan.  On the way to riding, Nathan was engaging me in such mind expanding conversations, I missed our exit, which made our trip 20 minutes longer.  The things Nathan thinks of while we are driving really blows my mind.  He is actually kind of opposite to me, while driving I like to listen to music and kind of vegetate out.  I am trying really hard to be a better listener to Nathan while we are driving.  I know that this is such a valuable time for us to talk, about all of the life changing things his brain thinks about.  If this kid does not make some kind of profound scientific breakthrough I think I will eat my shoe.  What I find difficult about this lets ask the most difficult questions while driving a car, is I don't have anyway of looking up questions Nathan asks.  And he does get frustrated when there isn't a clear answer on the topic he is asking about.  I sometimes have to say, I am sorry Nathan but that is the edge of science, scientist do not yet know the answer to these questions.  Just to give you an idea on what he talks about, on the way to pick up Jeff, we discussed, why children need more sleep than adults, I said it was because it requires more energy to grow.  He than asked well why do we not just stay short then and save all that energy.  We can grow strong by growing wider, but we would conserve a lot of energy.  This of course led to a discussion on evolution, and then that lead to a discussion on whether I thought there would be a time that humans did not exist, if we would have a mass extinction like the dinosaurs.  Which then brought up the idea that an asteroid caused this mass extinction, and that there is no proof.  And of course he wanted exact details on what would happen if an asteroid hit, how it would cause this catastrophe, and how big it was.  Then time travel was discussed, because that is the only way Nathan figures we can prove if dinosaurs live, of course we have to figure out how to travel faster than the speed of light, and would this then put us in an alternate universe than the one we are living though.  And next it lead to some kind of suit you wear, that is kind of like iron man, but we have no skin, and wear the iron all the time.  Nathan thinks we should have the technology to do this now.   Did I mention this conversation was only 10 minutes long.  My brain aches that I have had 3 twenty minute drives today with Nathan involved in his questions of the universe...

Here's Nathan at horse therapy, he did well in horse riding today, he choose to ride ziggy today, even though he has not ridden him in months

And then we had dinner, picked up Jeff and I am unwinding...

This is Gigi sneaking into my bedroom to share the book she is reading, jane eyre. She came to a sad part where Jane's friend dies when she is in school.  Genevieve is loving the book.  

Can you tell how sad this book is?