Motivation Needed....

The day after daddy comes home, is always a hard day to do school.  I know thought that the best thing for us to do is stick to our schedule and continue on normally.  Of course it is hard to carry on normally.  We have little melt downs throughout the day, because both Nathan and Genevieve would prefer to be playing with daddy and not doing school work.

We enjoyed a nice breakfast together this morning, Gigi cooked some strawberry sauce for us to put on our waffles.  When we were about done breakfast I brought out story of the world, and the complaints started appearing from mostly Nathan.  I don't want to do this etc...   So it took us 1 hour to do story of the world instead of just 1/2 hr.  We ventured off to china in story of the world.  After we did our reading, we watched a video about cultivating rice.  Both Nathan and Genevieve found this interesting, as did Jeff :) 

Next up we brought out the poster board maps and labelled all the countries that they knew.  Nathan instead of writing showed daddy all the countries he knew as he said his hands hurt too much to write the names. 

Math...

Oh boy, one speeds on through and is now on chapter 26.

Nathan however I gave the timer too, and gave him 30 minutes to do 4 questions in beast.  Now I must say these questions should have taken him 20 minutes if he was trying the whole time.  Beast is not a speed through curriculum.  Nathan only completed 1 question, I had warned him that if he was not done, he would have to complete these problems when he got back from Piano....

MBTP  Final day of essays!  Gig and Nathan are done.  I would like to print them out and get them to edit them, but I am out of printer ink...  So I will see if I remember printer ink at Costco tomorrow.

Here is Nathan's finished essay...

                There is a circle of power between Poppy and Mr. Ocax, because they are different from each other.   Mr.  Ocax is at the top of the circle of power, because he scares them to take control of them.  He even killed ragweed, Poppy’s boyfriend.  Mr Ocax made all mice afraid of porcupines by telling them they were vicious, and porcupines would eat them, but he told them he would protect them from the vicious porcupines.  One of the differences between the mice and Mr Ocax, is one is good and one is bad, I leave it to you to decide which one is bad?  The mice have not been anywhere because Mr Ocax controls them with fear, it makes them different because one has more knowledge of world then the other.  The mice and Mr. Ocax are different because as I said before one is good and one is bad.                             

                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!!!!!!!!!

    How will life change for the mice now?  Life changed for the mice in many ways.  The world that was once controlled by Mr. Ocax was now theirs’ to explore without the restrictions imposed on them by Mr.Ocax.  The mice were free to explore the world as they see fit.  They now had a place to call their own and dance in Dimwood forest.  Life changed for the mice for the worst and the good because now they didn’t have any one protecting them but it was better because their protector Mr.Ocax was eating them.

 

Both Nathan and Genevieve practiced piano.  Nathan  is ENJOYING playing piano!  I think he is liking that he has gotten to the point of perfecting his song!  He has worked on this song for 3 weeks and he can hear it now, when he plays it.  But it is not boring either, she has him practice other things at the same time as the song.  So he is working on a showpiece song and technique songs at the same time.  He practiced this morning and then he practiced again this evening after he came home from soccer practice.

Quick lunch for us, and then Nathan and Gigi were off to piano lessons. 

After lessons, we came home to Math homework.  Nathan finished fairly quickly with not quite as much grumbling.  Lots of playing with daddy came next, so much so that Nathan was late for soccer practice at 6-7:30.

After soccer was piano practicing and bedtime.  Gigi is more than half way done Jane Eyre and thinks it is the best book she has ever read.