3/20 and 3/21 a date with noodles and a new schedule

3/19/2012
 Today we were supposed to start our new schedule but daddy took a vacation day and told Caiden if he got his work  school work done soon enough he would take us to CR  to eat lunch and go to the book store. So we had a very basic school day: a timed math drill that again didn't go so well :/ Although Mrs. Olsen (our teacher who checks in with us makes sure Caiden is progressing well and helps me with finding resources) suggested giving Caiden the option of going back and checking his answers AFTER he had done them as fast as he can and the timer is off.  He read a chapter in Sherlock Holmes and I finished off Who was William Shakespeare; so for language arts he wrote his list of things he remembered about Will.For science we read Your Heart and Your Blood. ( I had no idea the sharp pain in your left side when you run alot is called a stitch and is caused by your spleen,you learn something new everyday!) and last but not least our new spelling list:
change
off
play
spell
air
bend
send
mind
offend
sand
land
draw
object
feature
label
steps
 First attempt 10/16 not bad. Daddy took us to Noodles and company for lunch yum yum, and at Barnes and Nobles Caiden got two books: every boy NEEDS a dictionary of knots lol :)

and Beast Quest by Adam Blade; which is a scholastic little apple chapter book. It only has 8 chapters 5 of which were done before bed time! Should have bought a thicker book but it is a whole series and he is definitely enjoying it :)

3/20/2012

I think I'm going to love this new schedule! We started with language arts: underlining titles of books and movies;which he used his entire hour(no surprise to me). So I gave him a 5 min. break and we did a math timed drill.He forgot a couple of times and I seen him double checking but much better with a time of 12.01 min. Thank you Mrs. Olsen! Now we just work our way to 5 min. (seems like a lot of problems and I may change it to a 50 problem drill at 2.5 min.) we will see how this week goes.We also did exercise 40 in his math book because he REALLY wanted to. The next 5 exercises are about fractions which Mini Mike (Caiden) finds fascinating..... I don't get the excitement but I'm glad he has it!He finished his math with 41min. to spare but had to finish what was left of language arts  before he could have free time; so in the end he ended up with about 27min. between math and science. Today in science we read Teeth and Where does your food go? I love the diagrams in these books.

We went ahead and I did my reading with science since neither take much time or deep thinking from Caiden(just listening skills). We started Who Was Queen Elizabeth and it was so interesting we read three chapters! Then time for a lunch break. 20 mins. for lunch 40 min. of basketball and back for spelling list which he got 13/16.