3/12/2012

Starting day off with new spelling list:
1)land
2)different
3)home
4)us
5)move
6)bump
7)stump
8)clump
9)stamp
10)clamp
11)camp
12)question
13)experiment
14)predict
15)observe
16)guess

Caiden's favorite part of spelling lists is the  personal challenge. It has little to do with wanting to have the knowledge of how to spell a large number of words but to see how fast he can learn to spell them. I made an agreement at the beginning of the school year that the first day of the week he gets all 16 correct we are done with that spelling list (never thinking he would put such effort into it).We have had 2 weeks where we had no spelling list after Tuesday! 5 days that our list was done on wed. and honestly most Fridays spelling list are nonexistent anymore. To him this was a HUGE incentive to do his best and study his words :)
Language arts (Caiden has explained this subject as the worst thing I have EVER made him do in his WHOLE life! lol) : today was apostrophes in possessives to which I got the reply "OK I got it! If it says something is someones I put an apostrophe, do I REALLY  have to do the worksheets?" Yep that's how everyday goes for this subject!

Math is always met with excitement, and always saved for the last subject of the day for two reasons(according to caiden)  One it's easiest and two it's the most fun :)  Today he has his review for the first 39 exercises in our work book to which he responded " easy peasy"

Caiden recently had his name drawn at the library for a stuffed animal sleepover. His friend Max the dragon was chosen as most likely to enjoy the library, because in case you are unaware dragons LOVE books :) To be entered into the drawing you had to complete 8 requirements which were:
check out 3 books at a time, read an award winning book, read for 30min., listen to an audio book, watch movie from library's collection, read book and write review, like the library on your facebook page or read article on library website, and bring a friend who has a library card to library with you(Caiden brought Mike) :)

We will be taking all of our reading  to the library today. We have volunteered to sit in the lobby for two hours today and help people fill out a county statistics survey. ( I don't anticipate being terribly busy on a Monday afternoon)