Tuesday February 16

Morning time

Nathan was up early, but Genevieve slept in a little this morning.  We had a relaxed start to the day.  I woke up this morning with a cup of tea from Nathan.  He had already made himself scrambled eggs for breakfast.  Genevieve made herself a sandwich for breakfast.

Language Arts

So I know we are working 2 weeks behind on my master schedule thanks to the nasty flu, but I am slowly getting us back to work.  We worked more on lesson 1 of Hugo Cabret.  We completed the excercises for day 1 and day 2 of lesson 1.  Genevieve and I need to work on her need to have everything to the best of her abilities.  There were a couple of assignments that she was not supposed to proofread, and just do a quick job of.  Nathan and Genevieve had watched a video on Paris on the way to vision therapy yesterday, and today they were supposed to write a travel itinerary of what they would like to visit in Paris.  This was supposed to be quick like 5 minutes.  But Genevieve insisted she needed to also do research in order to write this.  She also wanted to complete both assignments for this one, and she was supposed to just pick 1.  She wants to do it all but she really has no time to do it all.  I am slowly trying to get her to prioritize, and also manage her time that she has better.  

This is an assignment from the last book we did My Side of the Mountain.  She had to write a newspaper article

It would have been much easier if our printer was working properly,having a hard time printing colour

Hmm I see a missing capital... I guess I should have proofread it...

I had no idea what a tiercel, or eyasses were before Genevieve told me.  I did know what a fledgling was though.  She does like to do research.  And apparently falcons are female?  I am not sure what the males are called...

Todays work finishing a vocabulary sheet

Genevieve, we had to look up a few of these words, as the meanings are pretty close, we discussed using correct words in our writing and how we can use fewer words with the correct word

Nathan, we also discussed how we can try and figure out the meaning of words by looking at clues such as prefixes and suffixes.

These are the travel itineraries

I insisted she had to write this and not type it out, she was not happy with me, I envisioned all sorts of things when she wanted the computer, we need this to be a quick little write up

Nathan's was quick :)

Another assignment was writing a story to go with one of these pictures.  This was supposed to be a quick story without any proofreading, you were just supposed to free write it.

Genevieve chose the top picture, Nathan the bottom, and both their stories are gruesome, seriously what kind of children am I raising???

Nathan's

Genevieves story.  I guess she must think of sentence structure while she is proofreading :)

Piano

Nathan has decided he likes scales, go figure, so her practiced those today

vision

Nathan reminded me we had to do his vision exercises, we had to take a little break in between as his eyes were hurting, doing the exercises.  

Piano lessons

Genevieve is coming along nicely with her voice, she has a two words she needs to work on pronunciation (german)  She also is a little wobbly on the end of her secret garden musical.  

Nathan - has a song he is playing that he likes, so we will have to try and encourage Nathan to play this song

math

both worked on Math independently today, as I decided I should take the time to do taxes.

Park

It was so beautiful outside today that we decided to go to the park after piano for about an hour, Nathan brought his remote control truck.  Genevieve ran around with ginger, and I sipped my tea.

Cheer

5-7:30 

nathan went to grandma and grandpas to hang out and I went to costco, and then watched Genevieve.