Thursday, August 29, 2002
Wednesday's homeschooling
We had a pretty good day here. Aaron is so much more attentive to education now that he's older. I'm happy with what I see happening. Today we discussed Proverbs 27:2, looking up "brag" and "boast" at dictionary.com and thesarus.com. I asked him questions about his feelings on the verse, and wrote down his answers... he did his drawing for our Proverbs book, and then it was time for reading. We reviewed a lesson in the 100 EZ Lessons book (he's almost to the end of that and this came easy to him)... then we worked with the second part of The Phonics Game, a card game called "Silent Partners"... plus he wrote a few sentences. That took up most of our time. The last thing we did was discuss alternative archetecture - something we are both interested in - and we went on a search for unusual building materials.
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I went to sleep at about 7pm and woke up at 3am... Aaron was still awake, alone in his bedroom... I asked him what he was doing and said he looked lonely. He agreed he was lonely and was working on a project with wire. Well, seeing as I was awake, he said he wanted to study with me some more. So... we went into the dining room at 3am and spent about an hour on social studies and science. First we read from The Story of Mankind about the Roman Empire.. then read about matter in the DK Eyewitness book... then looked up a Roman History site on the internet that showed us a farm in the UK that emulates ancient archetecture and methods. It was all very cool.. then I convinced him to go to sleep, promising to wake him by 11 tomorrow so we can get more homeschooling done before his favorite show comes on at 3pm.
Here's the books we are reading during this quarter (the plan is to read about ancient civilizations and matter from now until November 30, then re-evaluate).
We had a pretty good day here. Aaron is so much more attentive to education now that he's older. I'm happy with what I see happening. Today we discussed Proverbs 27:2, looking up "brag" and "boast" at dictionary.com and thesarus.com. I asked him questions about his feelings on the verse, and wrote down his answers... he did his drawing for our Proverbs book, and then it was time for reading. We reviewed a lesson in the 100 EZ Lessons book (he's almost to the end of that and this came easy to him)... then we worked with the second part of The Phonics Game, a card game called "Silent Partners"... plus he wrote a few sentences. That took up most of our time. The last thing we did was discuss alternative archetecture - something we are both interested in - and we went on a search for unusual building materials.
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I went to sleep at about 7pm and woke up at 3am... Aaron was still awake, alone in his bedroom... I asked him what he was doing and said he looked lonely. He agreed he was lonely and was working on a project with wire. Well, seeing as I was awake, he said he wanted to study with me some more. So... we went into the dining room at 3am and spent about an hour on social studies and science. First we read from The Story of Mankind about the Roman Empire.. then read about matter in the DK Eyewitness book... then looked up a Roman History site on the internet that showed us a farm in the UK that emulates ancient archetecture and methods. It was all very cool.. then I convinced him to go to sleep, promising to wake him by 11 tomorrow so we can get more homeschooling done before his favorite show comes on at 3pm.
Here's the books we are reading during this quarter (the plan is to read about ancient civilizations and matter from now until November 30, then re-evaluate).
 The Story of Mankind |  Eyewitness: Matter |
