Ah, the joys of Monday!
It wasn't really too bad a day actually.
We always seem to drag through school on Monday and today the boys got right to it without even being asked! Of course, John had an investigation in Math, which he loves. Brendan was all about doing his music and Typing Pal. He is really getting the Piano. I can't wait for the recital.
I keep waiting for John to hit the proverbial brick wall in his math book. Last year we had a much harder time. This year he just keeps cooking along and he is getting excellent scores on his lessons and A's on his tests. He is writing a lot more this year and that is a challenge, but I think he is enjoying the process a lot more than he would be without the IEW program.
Paul doesn't seem to think that school is for real yet. I think he thinks this is all just a diverting game and that when he decides that he doesn't want to play anymore, he is just going to be able to opt out. Hmmm... Well, in the meantime he is making amazing progress.
We had our art group today and the older kids, my little group, had to draw from what they learned last year. I had them use three of the artistic principles that we studied last year and draw something that they really love. In the Spring I am going to have them draw the same thing again, using the new things that they learn this year so that they can see the difference.
One of the girls drew a beautiful sunset with pastels. Don't know how she is going to improve on that one.
Then we went out to the Mall to help Nina with Lilly as she got her pictures done. She doesn't ever complain when we take pictures of her, but she didn't like this guy! He just made her unhappy and vice versa.
The pictures did come out really cute. Such a pretty little girl.
The boys had to hang out and couldn't get near the baby, so we treated them to pizza to thank them for their cooperation. They were quite happy about that.
No scouts tonight. Aw shoot! Not really...
We do have Karate tomorrow night, I have a meeting on Weds. and one on Thursday. Gee, maybe we'll be able to sit down to dinner on Friday night.
Oh well, tomorrow is another day!
