Posted in Journal on Feb 12th, 2007 3 Comments »
I got a slow start today and ending up sleeping almost all afternoon. Not sure if it’s a virus or not but severe headache and very tired out. This is how it went:
Everyone did their house cleaning jobs, including me. I am thinking of ways to improve the way we do it. For […]
Posted in Journal on Feb 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Math
Kieron: Saxon 65 — lessons 38-42
Sean: KEy to Algebra book 7, pages 23 to 28
Latin:
both: daily Quia. … we didn’t get to anything else.
Reading:
Kieron:
Bible History 2 sections, Q&A and maps/charts
Story of the Romans 2 sections, narration
Credo I Believe: chapter 13, read and discussed and looked at picture
Seabird, 1 chapter.
Pirates of Pompeii
Sean
Story of the […]
Posted in Therapy, Journal on Feb 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
Second housecleaning of the week, kids doing their rotations.
Kieron:
He was looking ahead in the koine Greek book and very interested in the characters. I think that counted for his narration today as he commented his way through them.
We read Seabird, chapter 2.
We read Story of the Romans, about the twins and the wolf, and […]
Posted in Journal on Feb 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
This is actually written on Wednesday evening but the timestamp uses eastern time and that’s OK; because after the walk on the lake today Kieron got energized to get ahead of his game. He did online math and Latin, then we did two lessons of Saxon, bringing us up to #43. […]
Posted in Nature, Journal on Feb 7th, 2007 No Comments »
Today got off to a slow start. Sean was tired (part of being a teenager) and I was tired too, having stayed up late last night.
We managed to get through math and Latin, but I hesitated to load a bunch of other things on them. I really want to experiment with following my intuition […]
Posted in Journal on Feb 6th, 2007 2 Comments »
7 am
Woke up a bit early and said some extra prayers.
Aidan got up at the same time as I did and we did some stretching and I put on his brace.
The boys were up soon after and reading. They have been on a reading tear recently. Both have finished Pirates of […]
Posted in Journal on Feb 5th, 2007 No Comments »
We’ve had a run of spring-like days and our snow is slowly melting. Today I was able to chip the last of the ice off our driveway with the shovel and the big axe.
Yesterday, Kevin spent a lot of time catching up on various house To-Do’s that have gone undone for a long time because […]
Posted in Big Picture, Journal on Feb 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Quick run-down on the week:
Kieron:
Saxon 65 lessons 33-38
Latin Quia daily
Bible History chapters 11-12-13 - Abraham
Credo I Believe chapter 12
Catechism discussion
1st 2 chapters of St John Bosco
Story of the Romans chapter 2 and 3 — narration
Seabird: Chapter 1.
Free Reading: Prince of Ireland’s Son, How to Eat Fried Worms, Hardy Boys and Voyage of […]
Posted in Plans and Ideas, Journal on Feb 1st, 2007 No Comments »
I put some planning posts up at my other blog:
Seasons for Planning
The Big Picture
How I Plan — Overview
How I Plan — The Trees
Also, I’ve put Sean’s Literature List (he’s in 8th grade) and Kieron’s Literature List (he’s in 5th) over there. If nothing else, all this planning has helped me keep away the […]
