Week 3: Day 1

What we accomplished today:

• Spanish- Al. is still copying a poem from an old Spanish reading book. (A. thinks we should encase the book in glass to prevent damage. It is so old - it belong to my uncle who would be in his sixties if he were alive). Tomorrow he will finish. Then we will work on translation. N. worked on copying a sentence and some vocabulary words. We also worked on reading in Spanish. I can't get him to make the switch to Spanish. He wants to read Spanish as if it was English.
• While A. did his Essentials work, N. worked on his Math. After doing 4 pages of Singapore, he decided he wanted to revisit the Roman numerals we learned last year along with the Gnomes . We reviewed them and learned some new ones (XI to XV). Tomorrow we will work on making a more neat main lesson page for these. N. also did his Explode the Code pages as well as his handwriting pages.
  
• By the time they were finished it was time for lunch.
• After lunch, A. worked in his writing assignment followed by memory work. While N. listened to the Classical Conversations cd, Alex and I read a chapter from Landmark of the American People. I am finding it difficult to fit in all my ambitious plans for history. We will have to make a very slow progress.
• Around 2:00 p.m. the boys helped me to make some cinnabuns for teatime. When they were ready we sat around the table and learn about ballads and read a poem by Longfellow trying to identify if it was a ballad or not.

While the boys and I were working together, Gabi was in her room working on her Math, Physical Science, Latin and Logic. She also worked on FF writing assignment. She has a very heavy load and I don't know how she is going to cope with her work once her dance starts. We will have to see how well she manages her time.
All in all it was satisfying sort of day. What was accomplished, was accomplished well. That is success in my book.