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Jan. 14th, 2013 06:14 pmThis is a pretty good school day. I had everyone up and eating oatmeal before Isaac had to be at school. We did have to scrape the dried gum off the back of his neck before he went, and Aaron and Jake were pretty angry with me about Monday morning early rising, but hey.
Ananda and I went through some online lists of educational offerings on Netflix, and we picked a few that could be supplemental to the day (anything from BBC: Nature or National Geographic, or episodes of Cosmos - BUT JUST ONE MYTHBUSTERS PER DAY, PERIOD! :p). After the homeschooled kids did their chores, and Ananda and I spoke to her Marine Science teacher on the phone, they watched those shows for about 2 hours.
Since then, and lunch (reheated italian soup from last night), Annie's submitted a Marine Science essay based on articles about endangered coral reefs, and a guitar video (of herself), and has been working on a drawing that is supposed to convince me she needs a bigger sketchbook ever since. She's using an online tutorial and there is no peeking allowed.
Aaron picked an old National Geographic off the shelf to write a report on something inside of.
After I gave Elise a bath, she came with me to pick up Isaac. He has peer tutoring for half an hour after school on Mondays and Wednesdays (and regular tutoring before school on some days). She wanted to learn a bunch of F words, so we wrote out a few (family, fairy, five, etc) a couple of times and then made word cards with them. Now she's doing the "ABC" section of her Brainquest K book.
Jake spent about an hour on Brainquest today, half BURNING THROUGH math that is easy-peasy for him, and the other half doing reading and writing at a regular pace.
We're in a pretty good rhythm. For Ananda, for instance, she has 3 online courses right now (high school level Marine Science and guitar, and 6th grade level Civics - she's actually a 7th grader but it's all working out). On Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays she has to submit at least two assignments per day to virtual school - she has to make sure two per week per course at minimum get submitted. She also has to do a 2 page rough draft and then a final draft book report (on her choice of book; she reads enough that it's never an issue), and at least 4 math assignments, for me each week, as baseline minimum homeschooling. So a lot of that but not all gets done on Thursdays and Fridays.
Aaron I tend to get two kumon math or one writing assignment per day out of; they're split about evenly between reports on nonfiction things I make him read and creative writing/journaling (I let him pick between the two). I want more but we're actually getting to a point where THIS is done consistently. He's also somewhat happier and more active, since his cast came off, and will be dancing again starting Wednesday. He uses a lot of his free time on FL studios making and sharing keyboard music, and planning the Deadmau5 head he's going to make out through various means including paper mache.
The two of them went camping in the Everglades with TLC for Izzy's birthday, this weekend. She came home covered in mosquito bites and a sunburn, both of which are lingering; he is paranoid enough about bug bites that he stayed completely covered the entire time.
I am off to wing some stuffed peppers for dinner.
Ananda and I went through some online lists of educational offerings on Netflix, and we picked a few that could be supplemental to the day (anything from BBC: Nature or National Geographic, or episodes of Cosmos - BUT JUST ONE MYTHBUSTERS PER DAY, PERIOD! :p). After the homeschooled kids did their chores, and Ananda and I spoke to her Marine Science teacher on the phone, they watched those shows for about 2 hours.
Since then, and lunch (reheated italian soup from last night), Annie's submitted a Marine Science essay based on articles about endangered coral reefs, and a guitar video (of herself), and has been working on a drawing that is supposed to convince me she needs a bigger sketchbook ever since. She's using an online tutorial and there is no peeking allowed.
Aaron picked an old National Geographic off the shelf to write a report on something inside of.
After I gave Elise a bath, she came with me to pick up Isaac. He has peer tutoring for half an hour after school on Mondays and Wednesdays (and regular tutoring before school on some days). She wanted to learn a bunch of F words, so we wrote out a few (family, fairy, five, etc) a couple of times and then made word cards with them. Now she's doing the "ABC" section of her Brainquest K book.
Jake spent about an hour on Brainquest today, half BURNING THROUGH math that is easy-peasy for him, and the other half doing reading and writing at a regular pace.
We're in a pretty good rhythm. For Ananda, for instance, she has 3 online courses right now (high school level Marine Science and guitar, and 6th grade level Civics - she's actually a 7th grader but it's all working out). On Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays she has to submit at least two assignments per day to virtual school - she has to make sure two per week per course at minimum get submitted. She also has to do a 2 page rough draft and then a final draft book report (on her choice of book; she reads enough that it's never an issue), and at least 4 math assignments, for me each week, as baseline minimum homeschooling. So a lot of that but not all gets done on Thursdays and Fridays.
Aaron I tend to get two kumon math or one writing assignment per day out of; they're split about evenly between reports on nonfiction things I make him read and creative writing/journaling (I let him pick between the two). I want more but we're actually getting to a point where THIS is done consistently. He's also somewhat happier and more active, since his cast came off, and will be dancing again starting Wednesday. He uses a lot of his free time on FL studios making and sharing keyboard music, and planning the Deadmau5 head he's going to make out through various means including paper mache.
The two of them went camping in the Everglades with TLC for Izzy's birthday, this weekend. She came home covered in mosquito bites and a sunburn, both of which are lingering; he is paranoid enough about bug bites that he stayed completely covered the entire time.
I am off to wing some stuffed peppers for dinner.
