Last Monday Just Us
Today is the last Monday of just Dakota and I. Next Monday my 2 1/2 year old granddaughter and my 6 week old granddaughter will be here from 8:30 to 4:30 and the following Monday, 23 month old Brooke will join them. We will have lots of fun and find a new normal, but while I plan to enjoy these three little girls completely and totally, I also know there will be much more chaos and tears and shrieks of joy and shrieks of anger lol. Newborns cry. Two year olds cry and throw tantrums. But they also give the best snuggles and say the cutest things.
Dakota and I got in a great Monday. He did his morning work and then had a complete Social Studies lesson from Time for Kids on The Battle For Bats. He read the magazine, did the work pages that went with it, watched a video off the website and took a quiz. He started a new book called A Dog on the Titanic in preparation for our Titanic unit that will start tomorrow and run for about 2 weeks. We will be using the I Survived series for our Literature and the lesson plans that go along with that. We will be doing some research about the history and the people, as well. I am not sure, however, that I want him watching the movie, mainly because the ending is just so haunting to me.
Dakota was yawning and complaining of being tired so we headed out for a "power walk" around the light rail and down the trail. We saw a ground hog who saw us too late to avoid us and had to scurry about trying to find a way to hide. It was pretty funny. As we crossed the light rail tracks to come back there were deer bones everywhere from a little doe that met her fate recently. We found rib bones, pelvis bones, jaw bones with teeth still intact and lots of vertebrae hooked onto the spinal column. We could even piece them together some to see where the spinal cord would have gone. Of course all the soft parts were gone, food for other woodland animals. We did pick them up and examine them and they provided a great impromptu hands on science lesson. After coming and home and washing up, Dakota had much more energy. He did his pretest for Spelling and did a lesson in Math before lunch and then we both took a break to have grilled cheese and soup on this very chilly day before getting back to work.
The afternoon had us going back over his journal entry to correct punctuation and capitalization and underline and circle nouns, verbs and adjectives. We then started a new book called Punctuation Made Easy that I think we are both going to like alot. We started the text and workbook portion of our new Energy unit in Science and kinetic and potential energy were really captivating to my little son. When we finished there, we did chapter 24 of Story of the World, Volume 1, learning about how Sparta and Athens took on the Persians for a war, including the epic Battle of Marathon. We also did the timeline and mapwork to go along with that. To finish, we re-read half of the Greek Myth pages from his last co-op class two weeks ago (before the Halloween party) and answered some of the review questions his teacher had sent us.
Now it's a Monday evening, one of my favorites. Dad is at college and the boys and I are relaxing at home. I will get to read and watch some TV tonight. I so miss my computer being wireless (due to a burned out adapter) but at least I can plan at the table and feel free to read when I am in my chair.
Tomorrow my husband has said he will take the day off. Hopefully he sleeps in and we get a good morning in because when he's home it's much more difficult to get Dakota's attention.
Dakota and I got in a great Monday. He did his morning work and then had a complete Social Studies lesson from Time for Kids on The Battle For Bats. He read the magazine, did the work pages that went with it, watched a video off the website and took a quiz. He started a new book called A Dog on the Titanic in preparation for our Titanic unit that will start tomorrow and run for about 2 weeks. We will be using the I Survived series for our Literature and the lesson plans that go along with that. We will be doing some research about the history and the people, as well. I am not sure, however, that I want him watching the movie, mainly because the ending is just so haunting to me.
Dakota was yawning and complaining of being tired so we headed out for a "power walk" around the light rail and down the trail. We saw a ground hog who saw us too late to avoid us and had to scurry about trying to find a way to hide. It was pretty funny. As we crossed the light rail tracks to come back there were deer bones everywhere from a little doe that met her fate recently. We found rib bones, pelvis bones, jaw bones with teeth still intact and lots of vertebrae hooked onto the spinal column. We could even piece them together some to see where the spinal cord would have gone. Of course all the soft parts were gone, food for other woodland animals. We did pick them up and examine them and they provided a great impromptu hands on science lesson. After coming and home and washing up, Dakota had much more energy. He did his pretest for Spelling and did a lesson in Math before lunch and then we both took a break to have grilled cheese and soup on this very chilly day before getting back to work.
The afternoon had us going back over his journal entry to correct punctuation and capitalization and underline and circle nouns, verbs and adjectives. We then started a new book called Punctuation Made Easy that I think we are both going to like alot. We started the text and workbook portion of our new Energy unit in Science and kinetic and potential energy were really captivating to my little son. When we finished there, we did chapter 24 of Story of the World, Volume 1, learning about how Sparta and Athens took on the Persians for a war, including the epic Battle of Marathon. We also did the timeline and mapwork to go along with that. To finish, we re-read half of the Greek Myth pages from his last co-op class two weeks ago (before the Halloween party) and answered some of the review questions his teacher had sent us.
Now it's a Monday evening, one of my favorites. Dad is at college and the boys and I are relaxing at home. I will get to read and watch some TV tonight. I so miss my computer being wireless (due to a burned out adapter) but at least I can plan at the table and feel free to read when I am in my chair.
Tomorrow my husband has said he will take the day off. Hopefully he sleeps in and we get a good morning in because when he's home it's much more difficult to get Dakota's attention.
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