family day monday, time to catch up a little

Wow, I was surprised again this year, when I got the email, from both teachers that it was time for our semester meeting.  This semester always gets me, I mean who doesn't take 6 weeks off at Christmas time to recuperate?  Okay we did not take a full six weeks off, but we did a lot of outside the box work.  I talked to Nathan and Genevieve that we really need to show our teachers some work that we have done since our last meeting.  I said we don't have a paper trail of what we have done, we don't have any worksheets or anything  to show.  Nathan said wow your right, but we have been busy doing lots of other things.  He said he has been doing a lot of reading.  Which he has, he has read all of the max axioms that were purchased for him from the school.  He started reading the cartoon history of the world.   http://www.amazon.com/Cartoon-History-Universe-Volumes-1-7/dp/0385265204/ref=pd_sim_b_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=1CPCYETHQ7BYT2QV1AW1

Today we started off with some latin, we have taken a little break, but Nathan and Genevieve had fun getting back into it.  They enjoy having their secret language.  They enjoy song school latin even though it is a little too young for them, I think they like the goofyness of the cartoon, and it is only about 10 minutes per lesson on the DVD so it does not get too annoying for them, that they seem to talk down to you.

We then did some latin worksheets, and some moving beyond the page worksheets.  They had to develop a lesson plan on teaching the letters of the alphabet.  They also had a sheet on relationships, they had to discuss how they would give something to one of their friend.  Nathan quickly did these worksheets, but he did not do the teaching one well, he only wrote 1 work per letter.  Poor Nathan does not do well with worksheets, he explained to me how he would do it but could not write it down, poor guy.  I came up with a different way for him.  I told him he could video tape himself teaching.  This turned into gigi and Nathan working together.  I think Genevieve really enjoyed this.  Nathan liked it better than writing but was definitely not as into it as Gigi.  Nathan was feeling pretty tired, and looks pasty white today, he did have a headache yesterday, so not sure if it is leftover headache stuff or perhaps he will feel unwell tomorrow.  He had trouble sitting and even standing long enough to tape their performance.


Here is their performance part 1 and part 2

Update - I knew Nathan was not looking so good.  He developed a headache this afternoon, a mid level headache.  So after video taping this last episode, he went outside and played hockey.  He then came in and was really grumpy, he finally told me he had a headache and asked for pain meds.

Well Genevieve was pretty inspired after doing the two episodes with Nathan, so she wrote and completed letter B by herself.  We taped 2 out of 3 parts of the letter B today.  She was pretty happy with what she accomplished she wanted to do more, my battery was dead and it was almost dinner and I was tired, so she made a banana cream pie instead.  She used a bought pie crust, and she used a cooked pudding recipe.  She made it by herself on the stove.  She chopped up banana and fruit to place on top, yummy, I guess I should have taken a picture of her finished pie, but we already ate half of it.

Here is "Fun Facts with Genevieve"  She had to come up with a name. :)

Part 2