New math venue!

We started 15 minutes late today, well at least that did not mean I was yelling and trying to get shoes on and into the car to arrive at school!  It just meant we did 15 minutes less of school.

We started the day with Story of the World.  Today instead of reading on in the book, I found a great youtube channel called crash course.  We watched the indus valley and ancient china.  It was great to see it presented a little differently and of course visually which I think helps Nathan.

Here is the video on the indus valley we watched.  The other day we had watched the 1st video in the world history playlist.

I decide this was great for SOTW as we we 15 minutes late, time to move on to MBTP, we did both LA and science in MBTP from 10:15-12:30

We read the first 2 chapters of Into the Big Woods, this took us a while to read, because as we were reading both Nathan and Genevieve had lots of questions, we had many discussions.  I think it took us an hour just to read 2 chapters.  We then did the chapter questions.

Up next was vocabulary words for chapters 1-7.  They first put them in alphabetical order. They had to note any prefixes or suffixes.

They then had to insert the words into a paragraph where they made sense.  For Nathan instead of him writing out the words he placed them in order of how they would go in the paragraph.  Nathan used a dictionary to look up the word brindle.  I had no idea what brindle meant either.  the world was listed as brindled in the dictionary.  But he was able to see that that definition made sense in the book.

We also talked about natural recourses and how they used natural resources to survive.  We did this orally instead of writing this down. 

They also did a worksheet that they will be filling in every chapter, which is stating something that they did in the chapter which is different then how it is done today.

Next up science of dirt, both Nathan and Genevieve moaned a little about learning about dirt, but they both found it quite interesting! 

And then I had to run out of the house, while triying to feed the kids on the go, to get the to piano lessons on time.

Today was Gigi's first time doing voice lessons, she loved it!  She was learning some human anatomy at the same time, to learn how she is singing, and how to breath while she was singing.  Loved the posters marlene brought out to show gigi!

While Genevieve was at voice and piano, Nathan and I went downstairs and sat in some comfy chairs and started our math work.  I agreed with Nathan that we would play a math game first and then we would work on beast, and then do a math game again if we had time.  This actually worked great!  I had no idea that it would go so well!  It seemed he was able to concentrate more, or relax more.  We were working on perimeter, and he was able to solve the unknown measurements of sides quite easily today!  He could just see what the answers were, and last time, it was soooo hard for him.  

Oh as a bonus, this actually works out to more time of schooling on Tuesdays for both!   Nathan gets 1 hr 1:1 with me and Gigi gets 1/2 hr!   Genevieve and I played a game of snap it up together.   

Nathan then had piano lessons, he did not want to go as his shoulder has been really hurting him all day today, it is his left shoulder when usually it is his right.  I went up with him and told marlene, I left asking Nathan if he would let marlene know if he was not alright and if it hurt too much, suggesting maybe just do the beats or whatever else without playing.  It worked wonderfully and Marlene placed a pillow under his arm to help him and Nathan was able to play easily.  Nathan was really putting  up a fight not wanting to go because his shoulder hurt so much, so I am so glad we talked with Marlene and she was able to figure out a way for Nathan to be comfortable while playing!  I think this gave him confidence that she would not be upset at him if he can not play another day, or if he has a bad day.

We now have a playdate for a few hours before Nathan has soccer practice tonight.  We have not seen our playbuddy Maclean since we went to a cabin together in July!  So it is really nice for them to see each other!  But it is a busy day!

Overall a wonderful day of school, even though I had to push a little this morning I think we did a great job today!