academics ;)
Yesterday I did my normal trick of preparing some educational stuff around Marcus which means he can’t resist doing it 
So yesterday he read all the words in JP’s word box 1. That’s just lots of simple words, probably about 15 or so. They get progressively harder andf there’s about 15 “boxes”. He read them really well actually especially since there are no pictures to make him try to cheat.
After that we sat and did a couple of pages from the Miquon Orange workbook (M did A-4 and A-7, A did A-1 and A4), they had got a bit fed up by the end although sometimes I’m not surprised! Some things are so monotonous.
Read The Story of Johnny Appleseed which provided conversations about Americans which is soemthing we’ve been doing a bit of lately. Stuck on Vivaldi as well for a bit of music appreciation and surprisingly they both loved it. Marcus hates Mozart with a vengeance but obviously not all classical music.
Went out to lakeside shopping centre to see Bob The Builder who didn’t actually surface. Grrr. Would probably complain if I could be bothered.
Today I couldn’t find the thing I wanted to print out for reading practice so I didn’t bother with anything. Must find it all out tonight. The kids chose to do some maths work with the linking cubes so we made things, did some pattern work, measured and lots more.
Excavated some of those “dig” toys where you find the dinosaur within a egg of sand. We had a dinosaur one and a egyptian one. Took bloomin ages to get into but eventually we unearthed a pterodactyl and a scarab beetle “treasure”. This led to some discussion about Egyptians and finding out why they had scarab beetles as something important so we looked in a book I had and we checked the internet.
Grumbled about them not being out in the sunshine. Honestly they would spend all day inside if I didn’t chuck em out. And even when I did that they came back in again. *rolls eyes*
Marcus has been a bit off colour lately and James thinks his glands are swollen a bit so maybe a trip to the doctors is in order for him.
You didn’t tell me that you didn’t get to see Bob! Aw.
Know what you mean about the sunshine. I’ve got two sitting here, still in pjs, building train track. Get outside and enjoy it! It isn’t going to last…
Comment by Jax — September 1, 2005 @ 10:59 am
Ooh look, a blogring! Welcome back
Comment by Jax — September 1, 2005 @ 11:30 am
That all sounds very active
Mine are the opposite! Never in and I have to drag them in for bed.
My glands have been up and I’ve had a chesty cough for over 5 weeks- still haven’t made it to the GP LOL!
Comment by Roslyn — September 1, 2005 @ 3:23 pm