The Human Metronome

This morning 7th grade has guitar lesson and I had the metronome on to help her with a new piece. The 2 year old is walking around, clicking his tongue with perfect tempo! LOL!

Ending With Fun!

For review sake:

Kindergarten is able to count ordinal numbers up to the thirty-first consistently and seems to understand it. He can spell and write the days of the week and write his numbers up to 100. He has completely learned the Pre-Primer list of Dolch words so I have moved him to the Primer list. We are moving slower in Science and Social Studies as the lessons are very short and I am trying to figure out how to bump it up some.

Third Grade has completed several of his test with scores in the high 90's. He is struggling with mental math that includes carrying so we are doing some math drill sheets to help him with the basic addition part so that it takes some of the work out for him. James is a child that does well with memorization, but struggles with transferring information to other situations. He picked up some books about cheetahs from the library and really enjoys reading anything about animals. His school behavior has really improved in that he stays very focused and on task.

Seventh Grade is ahead in all of her subjects. She has several essays that she is working on at the same time for 3 different classes. I may have to delete some of them as it seems to be too much ( and I think so as the person who has to read and grade them.) Her music and guitar class is going well... I broke her E string this week and when we went to go have it replaced, the guy tuned and then played a real fancy song on her guitar. She and I both cracked up and said we did not know that guitar could sing like that. LOL! I read a blog by Christie and she was describing a research project called a "delight directed" project. I totally stole (err I mean borrowed) the idea and Jordan is doing her project on the history and making of French Toast. I can't wait to taste/grade her project. ~Smile~

We went out for a ride in the country yesterday and stopped at one of the local small farms to get pumpkins and gourds. We are looking forward to making some pumpkin muffins, pancakes and toasting the seeds. Not sure what we will do with the gourds.

Today we went to the YMCA and it was pretty quiet there. Had the pool to ourselves.

This weekend is the changing of summer to winter clothes bonanza. Woo Hoo!! Fun times...

He is Entertaining

Our little dog is a nut! He is 10 months old, loves the kids and super loves playing outside. This is his favorite past-time ... fighting with boxes.

Fall...

Saturday was a great outside day. I actually was wrapped in my Snuggies and tried to read some, but the kids were cracking me up. They played with a box, sticks and leaves for almost an hour. I love their sense of imagination. That box was a boat at one point, a moving truck, a Bulldozer and I can't remember what all else.

Later we removed the drawers and shelves from the fridge for cleaning and all I can say is....uuggghhh. We used to do it every other Saturday, but that kind of fell off. Let's just say it is back on the MUST DO schedule.

Week In Review

Good week where everyone stayed on schedule. It was a low key week with only 2 appointments on Tuesday. This week in Bible, Kindergarten did the letter D for Daniel

3rd grade is learning dictionary skills and 7th grade is still doing integers.

In art this week we colored pictures of leaves and glued strips of colored paper in fall colors on the back of them. We finally took down our butterflies from last spring and put the leaves to hang in the doorway and on the sheers.

I was scheduled to work this last Wednesday and again on Saturday (tomorrow) but my client cancelled so I was able to get some laundry folded that had kinda backed up on me.

I finally found airline tickets for vacation. I kept waiting for cheapo flights, but I don't think there is such a thing anymore.

Have a good weekend.

Peace

A Quiet Moment...

One of those rare quiet moments where the 2 year old is not stuffing Lego's in the toilet and the puppy is not eating someones shoe WHILE.THEY.ARE.WEARING.IT!!!

Dinner Helpers

We had a very simple dinner tonight, made by the kindergartners: Sandwiches, carrots, chips and milk. 7th grade went to a function with our home school group and momma's not feeling well or hungry, so the 6 year olds decided that they would help with dinner. It was so cute watching them work together and they were so proud when I asked if I could take a picture of the finished product. Jackson said, "For the blog?!" with the biggest, cheesiest grin on his face.

So here it is folks!! Don't crowd!!