Not every week goes to plan, and this week was one of them. It started off well, Monday Ladybug spent the morning at Montessori, Rocket Boy completed all his book work at home, then off to swimming and the afternoon of playing with Lego.
Tuesday was busy, with Montessori, appointments in town, a home school social group meet up at a park, and then Legofest in the afternoon. This is pretty much were things went off the rails,
Wednesday was a slow day, with some pushing Rocket Boy completed some book work but not everything that I would normally expect of him, typically distracted by Lego. Ladybug also had a friend visit in the afternoon, I made some shaving foam paint - shaving foam and food colouring, and Ladybug and her friend painted the fence. When visiting the bathroom later I found petals which Ladybug had been pulling off a rose floating in the sink. Jellybean also had some tummy time outside while I made the most of the sunny weather, hanging out ashing.
On Thursday it didn't matter how much I pushed, Rocket Boy just wasn't interested in following any instructions and if he's not in the mood then there is no learning happening, even if we did complete any book work it wouldn't be retained and we would just have to recover it again later.
The afternoon was spent at sports group, we arrived half an hour early as we came straight from Montessori so had a picnic beside the courts. Ladybug made a scone at Montessori and wasn't interested in eating it so I was lucky enough to have it, and it was delicious.
Last time Rocket Boy was attending sports group he didn't want to be there and I was having to bribe him every week just to get him to stay on the courts. This term he's in there and playing with the rest of the group, sometimes he's mucking around but he's no longer trying to get me to leave, or even not go each week.
Last time Rocket Boy was attending sports group he didn't want to be there and I was having to bribe him every week just to get him to stay on the courts. This term he's in there and playing with the rest of the group, sometimes he's mucking around but he's no longer trying to get me to leave, or even not go each week.
Friday there was no books to be seen, Ladybug had the day off from Montessori as our car was at the garage and the center is in the country so there was no walking there. While it's only spring here in New Zealand, the summer weather has appeared this week, every day has been beautiful and sunny. We've had meals outside in the evenings and played outside as a family each night before bed. Even Jellybean joined in with the fun and bounced on the trampoline with Daddy and Ladybug.
Reading Eggs - Rocket Boy is slowly working away on the final map. He has rushed through many of the previous lessons so there are some parts he doesn't fully comprehend and tries to hide from me by turning the sound off on the computer so I don't hear the sounds it makes when he clicks on a wrong answer. I'm trying to make time to sit with him when he completes these lessons, but it's difficult balancing time with Rocket Boy and still meeting Jellybeans needs.
Handwriting without Tears - This week Rocket Boy completed letter y, j and some copy work with double lines triple lines and single lines. Rocket Boy is now officially halfway through the book.
Math U See - Only completed one lesson this week, additions of 10's
Next week hopefully we'll be more onto it, but with this beautiful sunny weather we might be out and about taking advantage of the sun before it gets far too hot!
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