Days/Weeks haha..
I had to write this down, because I want to be able to look back and laugh. This is our first week of homeschooling. The boys are loving it, and it is actually working out great. But it is only the first week, so we are doing a lot of trial and error stuff. Things are rough rightnow, but we will get all the kinks worked out.
(Aidan and his Shape Puppet)
Betty got a hold of a permanet marker, she drew all over the wall, as well as all over one Samuels math tools.
Yesterday we were not able to log on to the schooling, so we just had a free day and will be making up the time this weekend. Thats the great thing about homeschooling, you can do it whenever you want, even on the weekends lol.. The kids played outside most the day, and this resulted in Samuel having an allergic reaction to something, and breaking out in a rash all over his body. We had him hop in the shower and gave him benedryll and it went away.
We were getting ready to get school started this morning, when he tells me that the rash is coming back on his legs, so I look and sure enough the rash is back, all down his legs. From the time it took me to walk to bathroom to get him a benedryll it had spread and his ear had begin to swell.
We gave him the benedryll and tried to get as much work done while he was still coherent enough to understand the lesson. He is now resting in his bed. Hopefully he will feel better in a little while so that we can get more work done. He is doing really well, and gets through quite a bit of work during the day.
They have to complete 5.5 hours a work each day. In this time, Samuel usually gets two math lessons and two Language Arts. We haven't gotten to do any History or Science yet, because Wednesday and Fridays are our History and Science days and we couldn't log on yesterday. So tomorrow we will see what those lessons are like.
The boys are also taking Spanish. Samuel will do his first lesson today because they did not add it to his schedule until now.
Aidan is flying through his math. He took 4 assments today and aced them all. This with out doing the lesson before hand! For Language Arts we read Jack and beanstalk, and tomorrow we get to act out a scene from the story, he is really excited. He did his first Spanish lesson on Monday and he LOVED it. Passed all his assements with flying colors.
I am so greatful that Pauls work schedule is the way it is so that he can be here to help me out. He does the boys Math with them, and we will alternate who does their history and science with them. I love watching him with them, its soo cute. Samuel and him were havin so much fun Tuesday, I couldn't help but grin listening to them and watching them work through the problems together.
As for Betty and Jackson, luckily we are helping Samantha out rightnow by watching Chelsea and Cami, they help us out by keeping and eye on Jackson for us. Cami has been such a major blessing, I don't know what we are going to do when they leave!
Betty comes and goes as she pleases, doing a little work with Aidan here and there. Or just drawing picture after picture with her crayons. She is picking up a lot and I think she will be more than ready for kindergarten when the time comes lol.
I can't even tell you how happy I am that we decided to do this. It is such a great fit for out family. It isn't even as hard as I thought it was going to be. Sometimes I can get flustered or butt heads with Aidan, but Paul is always there to step in where needed... Or to point out that I am looking in the wrong book for something. (Although I still don't know what the "Brown Side Of The White Board" is.) My boys are really flourishing in the one on one time.
So here is hoping for a more smoothly running tomorrow and getting all the kinks worked out of our schedule!
