The Snow Crazies and the Slow Day
Today we didn't accomplish as much as I hoped we would. Both the kids are getting stir-crazy from being snowed in and preferred rolling around on the rug growling like tigers to doing school. Sometimes you gotta let the crazy win a little, so I may have done some rug-rolling too. Today Lu did one lesson from IXL, but it was a first grade lesson and pretty challenging so I was more than satisfied with that. She did Counting up to 100, and she practiced her new skills in using the tens place and the ones place to do it. We reinforced tens and ones places with writing the groups down on paper as we counted, and with counting chocolate chips into baggies (10 per bag). The built-in reward was waiting - when we were done with the lesson we got to eat the chocolate! This kept everyone motivated and happy as we trudged through a lesson with A LOT of counting. The biggest meltdowns happened when a hastily counted number resulted in a temporary lower smartscore. That is devastating for a little girl who knows that 100 means a chocolate chip feast!
Lu read One Hundred Shoes, a book that reinforced the math concepts we had been working on in the morning, as her level 2 reader.
Her bible verse today was Philippians 4:12-13, and she copied the entire verse from the bible into a notebook as neatly as she could. I did have to restrain her a few times from getting so excited about her "a" looking "like a cursive a." That would be great if we were learning cursive, but we are working on neat printing so I want her to focus on precision right now.
Unfortunately, that's pretty much all the "school" we accomplished for today - no history at all! Lu did spend the evening doing math challenges on the iPad while I made dinner. That child loves her arithmetic. I'll try to check in and report that we accomplished more tomorrow. We do plan on reading another chapter of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets tonight.
Cheers,
FauxProfessor T
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