The meeting with the principal at the high school went well. He seemed to understand my concerns about my daughter's school attendance. I told him she wants independent study at home at least until the IEP on the 7th and then we will discuss any options the school can offer. Ideally she would like to study at home most of the time and attend school on days she's feeling up to it. The special ed teacher suggested an alternative program. Though the alternative school is meant for older students the teacher thought with special ed she might be able to get my daughter in. It is taught by someone I know, respect and trust.

My son's learning session went good. We got a lot done: reading/writing Spanish and English numbers plus Roman Numerals, reading and discussing article 1 of the U.S. Constitution (about the legislature), vocabulary writing and study (we went over the words "sanguine" and "totalitarian"), and 1984... we read the rest of chapter one.

While I was reading 1984 he made this artistic creation:

He calls it "Magneeto". I plan to use this picture on his website when we get it started. The website will have a lot of short movies he'll be making this year.

I asked him to write an essay about the movie he watched last night but he wasn't ready for this unexpected assignment. All I got was that he didn't believe it and didn't know why. I told him that its okay to disagree and in fact I'll be giving him material I don't agree with too - but that when he reads he should be able to say whether he agrees or disagrees, and why. It should be interesting, over the course of the coming year, to see him develop this ability more.

Now I'm going to bed (at 12:48am) and will let him use the computer to explore bicycle websites for a while.

  ¶ 12:05 AM