Great Day

After breakfast we said goodbye to Daddy. Sometimes we'll go out on the porch and wave. Most of the time Superkid runs down the street racing the truck. Anyway, today we all stood on the porch waving & blowing kisses. Although it looked cloudy, it was actually very nice weather. After sitting on the porch talking for a few minutes, we decided to start school out there. We started by reading psalms (since today doesn't have any real Bible reading) and then we read a chapter of our read aloud - Pocket Full Of Pinecones. I scheduled this in knowing that the first two weeks didn't have a read aloud and we only had 8 chapters left. I think we only have 3 now. My 2yo sat and played with rocks next to us while we read. It was such a beautiful morning!

Toward the afternoon my stomach got pretty queasy and my sweet, adorable, little girl started getting quite an attitude that I needed to deal with. I knew I needed to eat, but ugh. I called hubs to talk to him (um, more like complain- poor guy) and my Superman told me he was in the neighborhood and asked if I wanted anything delivered! Isn't he the sweetest???? What a treat!! I was mostly just excited to see him in the middle of his day. It is a VERY rare happening. It's too bad the food didn't help my stomach very much though.

Here's my son's narration of The Hen and the Golden Eggs from his English lesson today:

Lesson 37 - First Language Lessons
September 28, 2007

The Hen and the Golden Eggs
There was some poor people who lived in a house and they had a hen that laid a gold egg everyday. Each day, when the got the egg they said, "Thank you for your gift." And at night they gave her mush and said, "Have a good night."
After awhile they got enough gold eggs they could build a little cottage in the woods. But the problem was every time they got greedier and greedier with the eggs. So, finally the man said, "Why don't we kill the chicken, because there will be lots more gold inside of her." So, they killed the chicken and they were surprised to see that there was no gold. They got poorer and poorer even though they used to be getting richer and richer.

In geography, he had a tough time trying to draw the smaller scale of his hand today, but he really loved the concept of latitude and longitude. He had fun playing the game where you named a latitude and longitude pair and had him try to find the spot. I let him have a turn to name them too.

Science went ok. I didn't make him draw today because the whole thing was just dumb. It was about global warming, which sparked some interesting questions from him. But, there really was nothing of real value. And, I have to say that I've been noticing that these topics are pretty advanced. I guess he's on the lower edge of the age spectrum for this curriculum and it's a good thing that he is interested in learning so I can keep his attention, but I don't know how other second graders would do. I also have to say, I am thankful that I've had a LITTLE study in this area, so I could answer SOME of his questions. He asked a few that I had no idea how to answer. Anyway, tomorrows lesson looks a little better. Oh, and as for then "animal life" page, I'm still not sure if I can do that one! The day keeps creeping closer...

We skipped handwriting because his papa came and sole him. :-D

All in all, today was a really good day!