ancient egyptian calligraphy anyone?

So this morning we finished up lesson 6 of MBTP language arts

- worksheet on similie, and metaphor

- circle map of friends and a short paragraph to accompany it.

Nathan finished all of his work printing with a pencil, because dragon is not working, and he did not complain at all.  When he called me over and said he was done, and I read his paragraph, he ran away when I said we should add more detail of what he had done.  I recognized that he was probably crushed because he was thinking this meant that his paragraph was not very good, and man that was a lot of effort on his part to write this paragraph with his hands, poor guy...  So I went and talked to him and explained that I understood, and I thought what he had written was great.  He felt better and then we played a professor noggins ancient civilizations game.  Genevieve was working on her work still but she could hear us asking the trivia questions, and she kept on answering.  Nathan kept on saying how do you possibly know that lol.  She would say I read it in this book or that book, love that Genevieve loves to read and gets passionate about subjects and reads every book we have on it. But we did have to tell Genevieve to but out and she could play a game when she was finished.

Genevieves work will require an interpreter to read as she completed her schoolwork today writing in ancient egyptian, and that is why she was not the first one done today.  She even wrote her paragraph in ancient egyptian lol.  Oh how I love her passions.

gigis calligraphy, she added a paragraph as well after I took the photo

very happy doing her work

When gigi was finished both Nathan and Genevieve played proffesor noggin, while I made lunch.  I had planned on teaching canadian history during this time, but they are both on an ancient egyptian kick that I think maybe it is a good thing to let them go off on their own to enjoy this passion of Egypt that they both have.

Piano and voice was up next.

gigi was up first so Nathan and I worked on math, he grumbled when I brought out math, I complained about his grumbling, we argued a bit, I said I was tired of him not putting in the effort.  He said well you have to stop giving me such baby work.  The science we are doing is boring, I already know everything.  So we got into a conversation about what exactly he wanted.  I showed him some thinkwell videos with advanced math, and physics, he said ok I dont know that, thats what I want you to teach me.  I liked the equation, now show me what it all means.   This is the video we watched.

 So I told him I would show him and that if he can commit to proving to me he can do algebra I will teach it to him.  So we decided to do a little bit of algebra right then.

For Genevieves turn with me, we ran over to the dance wear store to buy dance slippers for her, but they were sold out of her size, we then went to our old favourite tea shop and sat and had tea, while we did our math lesson, loved our time, before we took gigi to cheer for 5-7:30.

Nathan and I went out for dinner at moxies and we worked some more on math, he is super duper excited, and wanted to go to the library and see if they had any algebra books to try out.  We did not have time but I promised to go look tomorrow.  When we got home, he thought it would be a good idea to go through my old textbooks to see if I had any old algebra books in there.  All we could find was calculus.  We did bring up some chemistry 12 text books I found though.

When Genevieve found out I was going to the library tomorrow she asked for more books on Egypt.  When we got home they asked me to gather up all of our Egyptian books so that they could read them tonight before bed.  They both picked some books, but both of them did not read much before falling asleep.  Love that we have a pretty good size library at home for resource books, I had about 15 different books on Egypt!