While Jeff was home a lot of construction projects happened with nathan and daddy. They got out the robotics kit nathan got at Christmas and spent hours assembling a car thingy. Nathan then spent about 1/2 hour to see if he could improve on the initial design of the car. He tried a few options and decided the original was better. This was such a cool kit and you can build many different things with all the components. They only used 2/3 of the motors for this build.
They worked on a solar power car, but the parts were plastic and you had to pop them out an edsers nightmare. I started helping nathan and I was about to throw out the thing it was so hard on my hands. Jeff came to the rescue and nathan and I were relegated to the sorting of parts into bags. This took forever so we didn't actually build anything else.
Monday was science club, part two of our forensics day. A lot of chemistry was covered, including stoichiometry. All groups managed to solve the mystery to determine Betsy baker was the criminal. After both nathan and Genevieve played a couple of games of chess.
Tuesday - nathan and Genevieve participated in Rebecca's DIY class where they made parachutes, wind powered boats. Nathan worked on a wind turbine and Genevieve worked on a paper mill. After we went to piano and voice. Gigi's teacher would like to enter her into a scholarship competition in May. Genevieve is pretty excited, she is going to sing An die Laute, by Schubert, it is in German and a level 3 song in the royal conservatory of music. Her teacher is also going to choose a Latin song for her to sing since she is learning Latin. I think this will be difficult for Genevieve but I think she is up to the challenge. She was bouncing as she came out to tell me about the German song she is going to sing.
While Gigi was in piano nathan and I worked on multiplication. We worked on double digit multiplication and understanding why we do it the way we do it. If course I first tried the memorizing was add a zero when you multiply in the tens. We had to break it down so he could understand the why's. We eventually figured it out. He did ask to listen to our skip counting cd on the way home (I forgot). He is realizing how much easier it is for him that he knows how to figure it out, by skip counting. He almost has the 7's solid, so we just have to work on the 8's and 9's. So much easier when he is determined. He learned the 7's in the way to the airport to pick up Jeff last week. 20 minutes and he knew them, and remembered them today. How we picked the numbers to multiply today is that I had a 7 sided dice and a 36sided dice. He rolled them to get his numbers.
Genevieve, it has been bugging me that we have not really worked on multiplication facts yet. She knows how to multiply but not by memory, like I think she needs. Well today I gave her two six sided dice, and she solved the multiplication she rolled. She worked on it for 45 minutes at piano and another 1 1/2 hours at home. 7 pages of neatly written problems, without 1 mistake. She found the only ones she had to think about were the 7's. I think I will get her some flash cards to work with next. And slowly move up the dice. Glad she liked it and was so determined.
Oh and to top off our piano, nathan sat on the side of the red chair, well the chair flipped, tossed him to the ground and hit him in the head. Of course the maintenance person saw nathan sprawled on the floor. Called for help, they of course are being very careful with him, and worried about him as I am almost laughing out loud saying oh my goodness this is a very minor everyday injury for nathan. We had to fill out an incident report ha ha. Don't worry Jeff I was very nice and just went with the flow, even when they were inspecting nathan making sure he wasn't too injured lol
Good things this week, nathan seems back to normal without headaches, he had headaches everyday last week with several medium sized migraines. The only thing I can think that was different is before the headaches started, he was at my parents and ate gluten for 2 days straight. Don't worry mom not blaming just making note incase gluten is a trigger.
That car kit looks pretty amazing! Maybe Genevieve will need to be Nathan's lab assistant and help punch out plastic pieces for him. Great job on the multiplication memorization! That will really help Nathan with math in the future...
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