{"id":164,"date":"2009-09-01T12:30:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aprendemos.yuriar.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2009-09-01T12:30:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T17:30:17","slug":"tempers-and-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/aprendemosacademy\/2009\/09\/01\/tempers-and-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempers and technique."},"content":{"rendered":"

I knew today was going to be rough when BigBoy woke up with a very croupy cough.\u00a0 Luckily I saw this coming last night, and had his cool mist vaporizer running already, but still.\u00a0 Nothing can derail a homeschool day faster than a sick baby<\/span> kid.\u00a0 Thankfully, a dose of Robitussin seems to have helped tremendously as he is currently rolling around on the floor playing legos, with very little of that nasty cough.<\/p>\n

thePinkDiva kicked off our school day by asking to play with the Math-U-See blocks again.\u00a0 (See, I told you it was a big hit!)\u00a0 I have to watch her like a hawk though, because she has a tendency to take little pieces and run off with them.\u00a0 I don’t mind her playing with them, but… We are still missing about half the counters we got with the K12 curriculum a few years back, Candy Land is missing most of it’s cards, and the rest of our kiddie board games all have pieces missing.\u00a0 There is a reason why I got Family Game Night & Monopoly for the Wii.\u00a0 And that reason’s name is thePinkDiva.<\/p>\n

So, Diva and Geekboy ripped through their math lessons in record time.\u00a0 They ran off just in time for BigBoy’s Robitussin to kick in.\u00a0 He walked into the kitchen declaring he was now “good enough to leave my room.”\u00a0 He snuggled up on my lap and whipped through MUS Primer Lesson 4 (the one on rectangles).\u00a0 He ran off, and thePinkDiva came back for her phonics lesson.<\/p>\n

This is where the drama started.\u00a0 You’d have thought I asked her to read War & Peace<\/span>, instead of HOP book 7, The Fog<\/span>.\u00a0 She screamed at me, and got sent off to her room for a 20 minute fit of temper & rage.\u00a0 When she finally settled down, we compromised and only worked on sight words today.<\/p>\n

Then GeekBoy continued the drama when I asked him to come back to the kitchen and do his language.\u00a0 We started going over Prepositions yesterday and I realized that the “book” I have to use with him isn’t so much a grammar book as it is one of those testing review & reinforcement type books.\u00a0 So, the two pages we did yesterday were obviously not enough. Today I used this site<\/a> to find the nine most common prepositions, and listed them on the board.\u00a0 Then we talked about how to tell if the word was being used as a preposition (if it comes before a noun).\u00a0 I pulled one of his favorite mystery books<\/a> off the shelf, picked a page at random, and we looked for prepositional phrases.\u00a0 He seemed to really catch on after that.\u00a0 Then we looked over today’s workbook pages and found a review of punctuation that he ripped right through.\u00a0 Until we came to the writing part.<\/p>\n

I know writing is his weak point.\u00a0 He has struggled with it for years, and been officially diagnosed with Dysgraphia<\/a>.\u00a0 The main strategy for overcoming Dsygraphia is to practice writing. So I made him think about the things he wanted to write and tell me.\u00a0 Then I dictated his sentences back to him, and let him write without thinking too much about what he wanted to say.\u00a0 This is when I noticed the way he curls his hand over his page.\u00a0 It kind of reminds of the way the lefty kid in high school used to write, except, my son is a righty.\u00a0 Our new goal is to help GeekBoy re-learn his writing technique and use a straight wrist.\u00a0 I’m hoping that once we get a good writing technique into his muscle memory, writing itself won’t be so much of a pain.<\/p>\n

History today was just a review of the continents and compass direction.\u00a0 We are working on American History this year using Heritage Studies 1<\/a> by BJU.\u00a0 Should be a fun year.\u00a0 I’m looking forward to taking advantage of the area’s rich history with field trips to various locations we’ll be studying.<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, I’ve gone 2 days without picking up my camera!\u00a0 So no pictures yet.\u00a0 I’ll have to try to remember to take some tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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