Monday Funday
Today was an absolutely wonderful Monday for me. My husband was home most of the day working on his college paper and my son and I had a fun day of homeschooling. Usually when dad is home there is rebellion and chaos from Dakota, but today was so nice.
We started out the day with spelling and then climbed in our recliners to read The Magic Treehouse Haunted Castle on Hallow's Eve. Dakota doesn't like to read very much, so we were partner reading and when we finished the four chapters alloted for today he asked for one more! Love that and of course I said YES! Then he did some comprehension questions and chose one of the three challenges I had for him related to the book. He decided to make a diorama of a haunted castle and he went into his room to watch his Halloween movie, Hotel Transylvania, while he worked. After the movie, he had a Monster Math packet to do that went along with the movie and then we learned about bats for Science and did our History for today, learning about Athens. We did some mapping and also a Venn Diagram for Sparta and Athens to compare and contrast the lifestyles.
When we were finished with our schoolwork, Dakota got to carve one of his pumpkins. He was a much better help this year, although watching him work with a very sharp paring knife gave me heart failures! He handled himself well, however, and came out with a great jack o' lantern he is proud of.
At 7:03 tonight, he and I went outside together and watched the International Space Station cross right overhead. He thought this was extremely cool and we also used the app on my IPhone to find other constellations in the sky. I love that he was receptive to a little spur of the minute education and fun.
We are now ready to Kindle together in bed. Something we always look forward to. I wish all Mondays would run this smoothly. Maybe then I wouldn't usually dread them so!
We started out the day with spelling and then climbed in our recliners to read The Magic Treehouse Haunted Castle on Hallow's Eve. Dakota doesn't like to read very much, so we were partner reading and when we finished the four chapters alloted for today he asked for one more! Love that and of course I said YES! Then he did some comprehension questions and chose one of the three challenges I had for him related to the book. He decided to make a diorama of a haunted castle and he went into his room to watch his Halloween movie, Hotel Transylvania, while he worked. After the movie, he had a Monster Math packet to do that went along with the movie and then we learned about bats for Science and did our History for today, learning about Athens. We did some mapping and also a Venn Diagram for Sparta and Athens to compare and contrast the lifestyles.
When we were finished with our schoolwork, Dakota got to carve one of his pumpkins. He was a much better help this year, although watching him work with a very sharp paring knife gave me heart failures! He handled himself well, however, and came out with a great jack o' lantern he is proud of.
At 7:03 tonight, he and I went outside together and watched the International Space Station cross right overhead. He thought this was extremely cool and we also used the app on my IPhone to find other constellations in the sky. I love that he was receptive to a little spur of the minute education and fun.
We are now ready to Kindle together in bed. Something we always look forward to. I wish all Mondays would run this smoothly. Maybe then I wouldn't usually dread them so!
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