1850MOD Week 2 Day 4

Ahhh. School goes a little faster when the boys don't have English.

So, we didn't start until 8:30ish, but Bible time was relatively short today. So, we got Spelling done, and the kids got their snack break, and we were back on by 9:30. Reading went fine (Pooh is getting better - reading 6 to 7 pages a day in those 10 minutes). Math still took an hour. It was the first time introducing carrying (regrouping). They know they're doing it, but they don't quite understand it. Handwriting was quick, as the letter y is just a combination of the letter u and the letter g in Handwriting without Tears. We had to listen to the Middle States song a couple of times more for Pooh and Tigger to be able to name the rest of the states, but we were able to finish off History, and read yesterday's and today's science readings.

Rabbit worked on her independent work while I did the above, but I can tell she wasn't as focused as previous days. I helped her some with her Progeny Press guide (she was having trouble finding words in the dictionary) while the boys were doing math. We're having trouble squeezing Writing Strands in somewhere, though.

After lunch, we did the science experiments scheduled for the day. We couldn't get the one with the water bottle to work, but I think it is because we used a small water bottle, and the 3 holes directed the water too far away from each other. The pepper one is of course very cool, and we've floated a paper clip before. But the kids decided the most "epic" experiment was the milk, food coloring, and dish washing soap one. The results of that one:

I thought it was interesting that the colors never really blended to form purple or green (but they did when I dumped them in the sink that had water left over from lunch dishes). Anyway, the kids really liked this one.

I read through the art lesson in God and the History of Art, but the kids aren't really interested in doing the drawing. I'm not going to make them do it.

The boys still had Piano and Book Basket to do, so they did that while I worked with Rabbit. Science only took 15-20 minutes with her (no experiments today). We used the new Student Notebook that arrived yesterday to take notes in and answer the "On Your Own" questions. (I may write up a separate review of it.) Then we did math. Rabbit can do converting proper fractions to improper, but the other way is harder for her. She'll get there, eventually. Math took less than an hour. It was one-step multiplication problems that were way easier than the ones in Singapore, so we just read through the first example, then did the Lesson Practice and Mixed Practice.

Life group is at our house tonight, so we are about to spend a couple of hours cleaning and baking.