I got this on my Roku, which is a player that makes movies available on Netflix play on our regular tv. So, it was free. :-)
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
We are getting into our first session of the year. Each session running six weeks. I guess you could call them blocks, but for some reason session just feels better. :-) Anyway, we will run this session until August 21st and then we will go on a break for one full week. Im thinking of something like this...
Session I July 13 - Aug 21 (six weeks)
Session II September 1 - October 9 (six weeks)
Session III October 19 - November 25 (five and a half weeks)
Winter Break (five weeks) not including out-of-home lessons
Session IV January 4 - February 12 (six weeks)
Session V February 22 - April 2 (six weeks)
Spring Break (eight weeks) This is a VERY busy season for out-of-home lessons and classes, including major projects and exams.
June - mid July Summer programs outside the home
That is 150 days of home lessons. Adding into that we would have summer classes and the ongoing classes that are outside the home.
Anyway, we started our first Session yesterday. I knew it would be a bit of a struggle to get back into the flow so we started out lightly. Each of the boys chose a chapter book to read from. Gavin is reading Harry Potter The Prisoner of Azkaban, and Greyson chose to read The Tale of Desperaux. They each read for about an hour, well Gavin chose to read for much longer, but that was out of choice. Greyson then did some review work on his Algebra, going back a couple lessons and completing a few problems from each. Then both boys watched the first of a three part series on Ancient Greece. It was a light day, but a good start.
Today, we dug in a little deeper.
Maggie: Today Maggie and I watched a Peep episode on Discovery Education and did a water experiment where we tried to build a dam that held wter in one half of a container. It was fun, but she was pretty grumpy through most of it. She liked the show part. :-) Then she did an activity working with the short vowel sound of "u".
Gavin: Gavin got REALLY into his book and I had to stop him to eat lunch and work on some other things. He can go back to the book once he has done some other work. He then is watching the second part of the Ancient Greece documentary and doing a writing activity about the life of Vincent Van Gogh. He then has Jazz this afternoon.
Greyson: Grey read six chapters of Tale of Desperaux, did two lessons of Algebra, wrote, and edited three paragraphs on the life of Vincent Van Gogh and watched the second part of the Ancient Greece documentary with Gavin. He then practiced his drums. That is a good second day.
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