Language Arts

Maggie spent a large portion of today on Language Arts, including spelling. She was very proud of her spelling test, as she got 100% on it. She then worked on sentence construction, adjectives, nouns and articles. She found it to be a lot trickier than she thought it would be.

Rainy, Blessed Friday

Today Maggie and I were tired b/c we went to see a midnight movie. We slept in and then got up and got busy. Maggie did Language Arts and Math and we had some lovely teachable moments. Maggie also made some banana bread. We are starting our Christmas baking.

Joseph

So far Maggie is best at Bible. She had to write a report on Joseph and what Egypt was like at the time of Joseph. There weren't a lot of books on the subject, but I did find a DVD called Joseph. I think it was a mini-series. So today, while Maggie was pretty tired, we watched the DVD. It was actually quite good and then she wrote her report. I'm having trouble with Maggie's computer program not letting me grade her papers exactly right. I have to work on that, but otherwise, it went well. She did some History and tomorrow she will write a report on Icebergs.

Finally getting back to it

The month of October was extremely busy with outside activities, so our school work has been a bit sporadic. Now we are hitting it hard to make up what we've gotten behind on. Maggie has completed all her assignments for the day. We have studied all the subjects today and done a little cooking today. We took a break for lunch and then she is going to do some more math. In about an hour we're going to take off to pick up Jena at her school and then go ride and maybe go to the Y. Not really sure where the day will take us.

Math adventures

Maggie had the opportunity to learn some more new math with Peter. They learned another unit and now she has worksheets to do for me tomorrow.

She also wrote a book report on the book, Maggie's Dare. It may be the first book she has ever read all the way through. I had to really keep on her to finish this book as she is not one to read books all the way through voluntarily. She kept saying it didn't interest her that much, but amazingly, once she got halfway through the book, she couldn't wait to see how it was going to end.

I also have a science worksheet on my desk to grade. I will have to look at the answer key to double check the answers, but it appears that she got most of them right. She is currently studying human anatomy.

I'm hoping her Switched on Schoolhouse program will arrive before the end of the week so she can begin working on it by October 1.

Math!

Maggie and Peter are in the other room working on math. He's the math guy, so I let him do his job.

I did get the switched on Schoolhouse curriculum so by next week, I will be better able to do work with her as well and she will be able to work independently.

Today, while I saw a client, Maggie worked on science. When I came home she could tell me all kinds of good anatomy facts. I was really pleased!

Friday

Today Maggie will continue reading Little House in the Big Woods. I wasn't able to test her vocabulary yesterday, so we'll do that today. She's done reviewing math and ready for Peter to start teaching her the new math lessons. I will know by the end of the day if I have won the Switched on Schoolhouse 6th grade program I have been bidding for on Ebay. I have decided if I miss the discounted one, I will just spend the $300 and buy a new one for 2009.