Genevieve is a song writer

It was another fairly good day today.  We started out with Math.  Nathan and genevieve both wanted to do some dreambox.  Unfortunately I think Nathans dreambox account expired, I hope he does not loose everything as he will not want to start again if he looses all of his rewards etc.  So Nathan instead played some mathgames on a site he used to get to go on in his grade 3 class.    I let them play these for about 45 minutes.

 

Next we went on to MBTP and we worked on a outline for an essay.  The way MBTP has it organized is you organize, write and edit all in one day, and have other activities.  I wanted to focus more on quality of the writing and work on the writing process with them, so I just had them work on the organizer.  We also did a lot of oral discussions on what they wanted to include.  I think it is important for them to vocalize what they want to say and get across to the reader, so it is easier to write. 

 

Nathan's outline.  He changed one of the suggested paragraphs to be santas not real :)

Genevieve's outline

Math was up next again.  Nathan worked on Beast and Genevieve worked on TT.  She was actually on unit 32, so she worked on that today, she slowed down a bit today, and Nathan actually accomplished more than her today.  Nathan also went and helped Genevieve with Money.  She called for my help, and Nathan heard and said, money, I can help, I know how to count money, so off he went to help Genevieve.  I think that helped boost his math confidence.

some of Nathans work today, that last one was tricky!

 

 

Next we went to physiotherapy and music for gigi.

 

Here is a video of genevieve singing a song she composed.  She reworked the chords from someone like you by adele, and made it her own.  Notice the shift near the end where she makes it sound creepy, I think it sounds very Gothic.  I think she was very moved by the opera and she definitely is trying to sound operish.  It was so funny she wrote in a part for her teacher to sing, she wanted to give her a solo too, but her teacher influenced her not too :)  It was pretty funny to see Gigi directing this she knew exactly what and how she wanted to sing this, and how it should sound.  It was neat watching her figure out what she thought sounded good.  She definitely has opinions and ideas!

 

 

 

After music and physio, we had lunch at the park, and went swimming again 2 hours we were there.  I'm tired!  We practiced swimming again before all the afterschool kids arrived.  Kids are loving this new swimming day.