Mrs. Darcy's Homeschool: Genevieve wins GOLD

Thursday - homeschooling was definitely a little smoother then Wednesday. We finished up on Wednesdays lesson. We then did our Thursday routines of paper route, physio, music therapy, and cheerleading. Man how does it all fit in one day. Nathan also had a playdate while Genevieve was at cheer.

Nathans worksheet on values

Genevieves worksheet on values

Genevieve cause and affect

Nathan cause and affect, he drew pictures and had some words, he said the faces showed the emotions, it was pretty good when he explained the pictures to me

Friday - another good day of schoolwork. And then Nathan had horse riding, where he loped around like crazy, he is really starting to ride well. Friday evening we took my mom out for dinner. I think the kids really enjoyed the dinner out with Grandma and Grandpa.

stereotypes nathan

stereotypes Genevieve

here Genevieve picked a paragraph in the novel, that showed imagery, we discussed what imagery was. Nathan has one too, I cant find it....

Saturday, cheer in the morning and then for the first time in 6 months no soccer! I love watching Nathan play soccer, but I am not sad to have a little reprieve of soccer. We decided to stick around home, I cleaned the garage, the kids had a playdate. And then we had friends over for dinner and just had a really nice summer day, in winter.

Sunday - we decided to go up to hope and go for a bike ride to Othello tunnels. We packed hotdogs and buns and all that to have a weinie roast on the side of the river. I so loved doing this as a kid, and it was pretty fun to do this with my dad and Nathan and Genevieve, the only thing that would make this better is if jeff was with us. We ended the day with a birthday dinner for my great aunt Georgette who is 97. Nathan loves having conversations with her. Unfortunately there were a lot of people at the dinner so he did not get to talk to her, but they did well.

Nathan enjoying the sun and his rock recliner

Genevieve cooking me a hotdog

Does it get better than this?

Gingy kept up with us running beside our bikes, she was filthy though. We had to bathe her, two hour bath later and she still has some leaves and sticks stuck in her fluffball.

Monday - No schoolwork accomplished. Gigi was not feeling well when she woke up, she is achy all over her body, so I let her stay in bed, hoping she would feel better. Nathan went outside to try and find something to do that was active. I didn't even her when he came in, but I found him upstairs in his bed reading a book!!! Nathan previous to taking medication, rarely would read during the day, it was thrilling seeing him reading during the day. Unfortunately about 1/2 hour later, Nathan was calling me. I yelled back quite yelling at me and come here if you want to talk to me. Well poor Nathan replied with a cry, I have a really bad migraine, and I am stuck I can not move. oh crap, don't I feel like parent of the year. So I go up and try to assess the situation, its a pretty bad one. I then go downstairs to get him medication, and see I have received a text. The teacher wants us there 45 minutes earlier then I had thought. Oh crap, that means we need to leave in 1/2 and hour, Gigi is not dressed, and Nathan can not move.... Thankfully our housecleaner was there, but she could not stay until we were done, so I called my parents to the rescue again who came and stayed with Nathan. Of course just when the got there, Nathan was able to be up and about, and feeling better. He still had a small headache tonight when he went to bed but not like this afternoon.

So gigi's performance was AMAZING! Wow can that girl sing. There were 6 girls in her class and she was the only performer who achieved a gold certificate, which means she was above 90%. She was pretty excited, unfortunately for her at this age level, there is no advancement to the provincial level, or a trophy. She was pretty excited about her performance though.