Weeks almost over

Even though none of us has actually come down with the flu or a cold, we are definitely run down or fighting it off.  We had two late nights on the weekend, Saturday Nate stayed up to watch the hockey game, and Sunday we had friends over for a thanksgiving meal.  It may just be our lovely EDS bodies telling us we need to catch up.  Thankfully this weeks schedule is actually lighter, we don't have physio this week.  And nathan and Gigi both decided they were not well enough for hockey or cheer.  And soccer was cancelled!   

We did manage to make it to piano/voice lessons.  So during Gigi's hour long lesson, nathan and I worked on math again, nathan was not as eager this time.  I hate when we don't feel well.  Next it was Gigi's turn for 1/2 hr, I decided to work some math with her as I found a mistake she is making adding and carrying.  I tried to joke with her about being excited to find a mistake.  Gigi was really not impressed that a mistake was found and pretty adamant she was not going to learn from me.  Did I mention we are fighting something????  Oh how I love grumpy children!   I managed to show her a bit, but I realize she does not have a solid understanding of what place value really is.  I think we need to revisit this, when she is feeling better.  Genevieve I find more difficult to deal with when she gets in one of her moods, as they happen so rarely I haven't really figured out how to deal with them.   So this was Tuesday, we did very little else on Monday and Tuesday!

Wednesday, kids didn't get out of bed until after 9!  Nathan had set his alarm for 6 am, I took out the garbage at 7 am, his alarm was blasting away!  A complete hour his alarm was going off and he did not wake up!   So Wednesday we worked on some math, and then nathan did some brain pop, Genevieve did some creative writing.  Both of them did about 45 minutes piano and singing. F

Nathan did brain pop on mercury.  He took the test after.  We then reviewed it together.  He did not score very well on the test.  But discussing the questions with him, I could see he understood the concept, but missed part of the question.  I think I will continue to get him to do the post tests, as I would like to see if this is a consistent issue or not.  I will also get Gigi to do these too Rebecca!

The kids also played a game of linkology space

Here's Nathan's math

I used today as kind of an unschooling day, so even though everyone is under the weather we still managed to get some learning done.  

I was trying to get nathan motivated to do some writting.  I said he could write about anything he wanted.  Nathan informed me scientists don't need to write.  I told him that scientists need to write papers to explain their research.   He informed me that he could write notes, and the publisher would do the rest. I said but the publisher won't understand science and your work.  Nathan said mom there is science publishers, you know that right.  Since we were unschooling today, I did not push and he did brain pop instead.  I do need to find a way for him to communicate to the rest of the world what is in his head.  He desperately hates typing or writing, he is begging for dragon speak, so I'm thinking we really need to look into that.  He needs to be able to get what's in his brain on paper.  

Thursday, kids were up a little earlier today, but still off.  We started the day later, with piano and voice.  Nathan was slumped over the whole time on the piano bench, no energy to keep himself upright.  Gigi did math while nathan was on the piano, she asked for help and that did not go well.   I sent her to her room and told her to come back down when she was ready to learn.    30 seconds later she was back and she was ready, how does she do that?   But I could see that her poor eyes are completely purple underneath, and she does not look her best.  So math and piano is all we have done so far today!   

Independant reading

Gigi - she is so varied and reads for hours every night.  She did not finish jane eyre as it got too scarry for her, I may have to read the last part with her.  She then picked up little woman again and she was so excited one night saying mom it is so much better the second time.  This may have a little to do with her age as well, first time she was 7 now she's 8 ;).  She then moved onto Garfield!

Nathan- is liking readers from usborne, he is reading about the titanic.  These series are perfect for him in that the are easy to hold in the hands, they have pictures, and the book is small enough and not too overloaded with information. I find he gets overwhelmed even looking at say a DK eyewitness book.  He is also a vet slow reader, he is okay with this, he says it's because he is always thinking about what he reads.  I think this may help him in future with understanding, not sure if he will ever be a fast reader, he has to digest everything.