Kids went to Exploratorium on Thursday, we were late...Cant blame this one on Jeff. Nathan was a little off in the morning, but I think he did okay at school.
After I dropped the kids off at school I went and picked up Nathan's computer, which had been fixed, except we lost everything on the computer... All of my lesson planning for the year, was on his computer, absolutely everything... so sad. We also lost a few programs that were on the computer, co-writer (this one I don't think we will need as since Nathan is usuing dragon, cowriter is not really needed), we also lost classroom suite, which I haven't used much in the last few years, but it did have some neat things in it. And the whole look of the computer, just seems different somehow... Poor Nathan is not so good with change, I didn't give him his computer until he was working with his EA on Friday. This way I think it would have helped him control his disappointment, he was pretty bummed but held it together because his EA was there.
I then went home and I have no idea what I did, but it was then time to pick up the kids.
I picked up the kids and we ate, and then took Gigi to cheer, Nathan and I went home and had about 1 hour at home before we had to pick up gigi again.
We then went to a girls night at a friends house, the boys watched movies, they watched Bill and Teds excellent adventure, that's schoolwork right? Nathan thought it was really stupid. He said mom you know how those old movies are, they suck to watch, and they were really corny, the humour was not funny at all.
Genevieve made modge podge bowls out of leaves, and a votive holder, covered in leaves. It was very ooey and goooey, the girls seemed to have a great time doing it, the moms did end up having to go over, to help make the leaves stick to their ballons. I cant wait to see how they turn out, we had to leave them at our friends house cause that modge podge was not drying anytime soon, we really used a lot of modge podge. I bought the really big container, and the whole container was drained...
We worked on math in the morning, genevieve and I played a math fractions game, did a lesson in rightstart, and then she wanted to do life of fred again.
Nathan worked on life of fred, with difficulty... ugggg
Ea came and Nathan finished a project on South Korea. He is quite happy with his work. It was much easier working on it today then last week, thanks to dragon, a few kinks today, thanks to nathans computer, being reset to original.
South Korea, Nathan Reimer
Genevieve finished her top secret adventures, and played piano, and worked on her gingerbread song, she is learning to play and sing it at the same time.
We had to rush and deliver papers after EA because Gigi had an extra cheer practice tonight from 6-8.
I am SO pleased with Nathan's project! It is fantastic! Great use of sections, illustrations, font sizes, etc. and he also recognized some deeper issues with the north and south.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear about the computer. Were you able to get it back to where it was before? If not, please let me know and I'll see what I can do to replace the programs. Nathan will definitely learn the importance of having a back up after this. It is incredibly frustrating to deal with tech issues like that.
I think we can work without the programs. I think the classroom suite is really expensive so not something I would want to spend $$ on. Our backup was lost. Computer was backed up, not sure if tech lost the backup or the backup did not work, but I was told that unfortunately our backup was lost in the process, not sure maybe while trying to reinstall. I thankfully had some of my planning saved elsewhere. Nathan just doesn't like change, set bc stickers were removed etc. he will get over it. But the computer does seem weird, I have no idea how maybe a different version of windows was loaded back on, maybe that's why the backup would not work. I have no idea...
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