October hello...

We had a beautiful start to October.

 

The kids are still liking Thursday exploratorium!  I am so happy for this.  After exploratorium we met up with Tyler and Cody at the BMX track in abbotsford.  We had snacks and kids biked for a few hours and sat chatting for a while.  Simmone and I sat and wondered what they were talking about.  Genevieve went to cheer for 4:30-6:30.   We skipped soccer practice because last week was just way to hard on nathan, I figured we would go tomorrow as Jeff is home and we can split up.  

Friday kids worked on science they built a windmill and had a candle underneath. Nathan thought it was a pretty stupid experiment as he thought the results were pretty obvious. But the experiment was not the greatest success as the windmill was too tight and did not spin. I thought this was actually good for our experiment showing that they don't always work out.  

taking turns hammering a nail through the plastic bottle to make a hole for their fan
 

Nathan's EA came over and nathan finished up some work in MBTP, and he started on his final project which is putting on a tea party.  

Genevieve worked on organizing her tea party as well. 

We then delivered papers and delivered flyiers for mark strahl's campaign. 

Saturday we had cheer and soccer and my twin cousins 50th birthday party.  I can not believe I am closer to 50 then 20...

Monday

Jessica came over in the morning and the kids worked more on their art project from last time and started a new one.  Kids really like the art course, I really plan on using Jessica around lesson planning, she works so well with the kids and gives a good history lesson while teaching art.  Kids are loving this hands on approach much more then story of the world, so point taken I think we will do history with more of a hands on approach.  I ordered the ancient Egypt unit from MBTP thinking it would probably be more to our liking.  We are also working on our history  timelines and filling them in.  

I think after Jessica left I got the kids to work independently in MBTP literature unit. 

We then went to horse, we tried bareback for nathan but that did not work.  Poor kid spent the next few days having sore hips.   We are going to have to stop horse riding.  We may try again in 6 months to see if it changes again. 

So rachel this frees up a lot of $$$ in horse riding, as I don't think we have used any of this years funding that I budgeted for horse riding yet...   I tried last week to look at the budget but it doesn't show when I log in, not sure if they have changed something. 

Tuesday - morning time I got the kids to read the rest of their novel in MBTP.  Nathan is showing a HUGE amount of motivation and independence, he so badly wants to show me he is ready for more difficult work.  He is working 2 days ahead of Genevieve!  Yes you read that correct!  But it was wonderful the independence they are both showing now, I was able to clean the house before Jeff got home!  

We then went to piano, Genevieve and I went to the dance store to get her dance slippers and we went to her favorite tea shop to have tea and they had a gluten free muffin for her.   We sat and had tea and had a math lesson.  It was a nice way to learn. 

Nathan and I worked from a grade 9 bc algebra workbook that I got from the library.   We worked on exponents. 

Oddly enough while nathan was doing this he knew in his head what 16 *2 is.  I think his brain works better when you work it harder!  I asked him how he knew this, he said well I think I have memorized it already somehow. I think he had to have memorized it because it was instantaneous. 

We worked on - base numbers as well and how you treat this.  Of course this was a little more difficult for nathan to understand, you just can't say to nathan a - * - = a +.  That just doesn't make sense.  So we watched a few videos.  I think what made it stick was just saying at breakfast the next morning, nathan please don't, don't eat your breakfast.  I know totally not math but he could understand the double negative makes a positive, we will see how this translates to math later on. 

Do after piano 1 hour break before cheer 5-7:30 and pick up Jeff at the airport. 

Wednesday

Nathan woke up not in a great way or mood.  He was grumpy and had a headache.  I attempted to do math with nathan, even had daddy sitting there so nathan could show Daddy what he's doing.  Nathan could not do 4*4.  Ugh no point in doing school work I persevered and tried for. 1/2 hour.  Finally said mom I need to lay down I have a migraine.  So even though daddy was home nathan went and layed on the couch for 1 hour. 

Gigi and I spent about 1 hour on math. We completed lesson 11.  Worked on fractions, we also reviewed 9 facts.  

We left late today for physio... I blame this on Jeff, his being home must have messed up my scheduling, Jeff says I'm always late.  

Physio 11:30-12:30

Genevieve worked a little more on gingerbread song, I so love this song.  They have typed out lyrics and piano notes for the song, her teacher is going to work in figuring out how to publish songs so they can work on that!

 

Nathan felt better after physio, he was still feeling dizzy at physio, but felt himself after. 

Hockey 1-3.  Much better today, the other kid who was playing rough is no longer playing that way yeah. 

3:30- 5 csopa

Gigi came home excited that she has her part, she has a lot of lines!  

In typical Gigi style she needs to have everything memorized by next week, so Gigi and I worked on lines while the boys watched the first period of the hockey game.   I am impressed with her ability to memorize and not get down on herself.  She didn't get frustrated at all just took it in stride.