New School Year

I realized I hadn't posted anything since we quit working last spring. Maggie has hit the ground running and we've been working since the beginning of August. We did just a bit the first few days and then we have gotten more into a routine of working much harder in the days that have followed.  She is almost done with the first unit of language arts and through the first half of her math unit.  I don't know what she's doing in history and science b/c she's supposed to be doing those units at her dad's house. Only, I don't know if they are, so I told her to bring the books home so I could grade them if he didn't do it by the end of this "weekend" with him.  She's really good about doing the work over there, he's not so good about grading it.  They will typically run around one day and then do school work the other day, much like a normal weekend.  She is finding the math tedious. Not because it's at all difficult, but b/c it's a lot of busy work. I told her that's how math is. Lot's of apparently useless busy work that must be done.

Today I was grading her test from unit one of language arts. She didn't do as well as I wanted to her to do, as her score was only a 79%. I discovered that she was supposed to have completed the whole booklet before taking the test. She actually took the test as she went through the book and the test was in the middle of the book.  I hadn't read my directions. So, she actually got at 79% on material she hadn't actually studied yet.  So, she's not finishing up the second and third section and then we'll take the alternative test, which I'm sure she'll pass with flying colors.