Boy.....I thought I had our first day of school all planned out. Getting up early, making a pot of coffee, pancakes and maple sausage for breakfast, and throwing in a load of laundry (with homemade laundry detergent) before Steven woke up at 7:00. Well, it stormed ALL NIGHT, keeping Steven awake. Everytime I tried to get him out of MY bed and back in HIS, the thunder would crack, scaring him half to death. Needless to say, when we FINALLY WOKE UP at 10:30....I just laughed.
OFF TO SCHOOL WE GO........My DH and I are using the Alpha Omega Switched-On Schoolhouse 8th grade CD-ROM Curriculum. Steven has poor fine motor skills which make writing difficult for him. He is a whiz on video games and the computer, so this just seemed the most appropriate way for us to go. Our school day went something like this........
Math - Steven's favorite subject.
He reviewed transposing written words in to numerals, and numerals to written words. He finished 2 lessons very quickly.
Language Arts - Steven's least favorite subject. Reviewing prefixes and suffixes, learning about 2 different kinds of morphemes.
Science - Things were going well until he saw he had 20 questions in this section.....complete shutdown. "BREAK TIME!"
Bible - Steven really liked this section. We talked about the Lord's Prayer and looked up the two different places you could find it in the Bible, Matthew and Luke. We also talked about the different kinds of translations that there are, as both of our Bibles were a different. Steven really enjoyed having me read mine, he read his, and then telling me the differences in the wording of the two.
P.E. - Steven's older sister Amanda, works at our local fitness center in town. Their hour long fitness program for kids is taught by Miss Robin, and she is WONDERFUL with them. They play games, run around, and have so much fun, they don't even know they are excercising!!
Science...again? After we got home, we were getting ready to start science when another horrendous storm came rolling through causing me to shut down the computer and postpone it.
During the day while we were doing our school work, our youngest daughter, Sarah, was busy preparing us a DELICIOUS, homemade dinner of pork BBQ, cole slaw, and peanut butter brownies. Both her and her sister, Amanda, love to cook. YEAH! They are both chefs in the making!
After dinner, the storm had passed and we were ready to start Science. However, Steven had another agenda........SLEEP! He was sound asleep on the family room couch. AWWWW! What an angel!
TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY!!!
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