Another day gone by...

Today I squeezed a few extra things in so that we can take Monday off. (Or at least make it a really light day because I am hoping to take a good nature walk. We need to go to my parents house for the afternoon, so we'll be busy.) Anyway, so I'm breaking up Friday and doing Friday's work today & tomorrow so that I can do Monday's work on Friday. Confused? Nevermind then.

Anyway, so even with doing a few extra things we didn't do bad on our timing. We were done with everything except math by 2:00. Not bad. Well, you have to remember we START around 10am. Much later than I'd like, but that's just how it seems to work out.

Math was tough for my superkid today. He does Horizons and we don't have the teachers manual. It's a good thing he really catches on easily to math! Today they introduced A LOT all at one time. So, I had to sit with him the entire time and give him different ways to look at the problem. For instance, counting by 4's. He'd never tried before, but after circling all the 4's on a number chart, I pointed out the pattern in the "Ones", then I reminded him that he could add too. (even if he just pays attention to the Ones and applies it to whatever the Tens were.) I have no idea if I am making sense here. Anyway, there were a few new concepts for him that I know he learned some things, but I'm just always amazed how POP here's a huge concept to master. I will be switching to Singapore Math as soon as we are done with this workbook. I'm just not sure where to place him yet. He appears to know almost all of book one, but I'm not sure if he'd be missing concepts or not. We'll just have to see when the time comes.

Other than that, today just kind of went smoothly.

Oh, I had to laugh because something triggered my son today about when he went to his cousins school (a Christian school) for the day as a visitor. He began to reminisce and talk about it, but he did say that he would much rather be at home. (happy, proud, beaming mother writing this here!!) He was able to spend the day in each of his cousins classes, which were (I think) Kindergarten and 2nd grade. In the kindergarten class, he was just bored I guess. And to keep him occupied they let him sit and read. Well, apparently at one point the teacher put him to work "teaching" other children to read! He was thinking intently about this and he said he wants to become a teacher so that he can be an example in the public schools. But, that once he has a family he'll do something else, because he would homeschool his children. He was just in this real sober mood talking seriously about how he wants to change the world and how much he loved teaching the "kids". I told him that maybe he should consider tutoring others or volunteering to teach others to read. Well, that just got him thinking even more and I couldn't reel him in after that! He'd sit and think, then come to me and say, "you know what else I could do..." - It was fun! I am so thankful that we have time together to have these "deep" conversations. I wouldn't trade it for the world! :-)

That was my day, how was yours?