After a rocky start the day ended up being productive, especially for A. He worked hard in finishing his EEL homework and his FF homework. I decided to incorporate a resource that I have owned for years and never used before. It is a book solely on diagramming sentences. Instead of using his books sentences for this week, I picked some more challenging ones from this resource. He had fun, and I was glad to get out of those lame sentences.
This is our second year in Classical Conversations Essentials program. For the rest of the students is only their first year, therefore the teacher has to keep the material at a basic level during class. At home I am making an effort to find resources that complement and challenge him. I have been using different editing exercises ( I didn't care for their editing exercises- year after year they will do the same editing of the Gospel of John ), and different sentences. I make sure he does his charts and we spend time on the concepts he is weak on (so far these have not been many).
He is working on multiplication by two digit numbers and some shortcuts. He is doing fairly well but, as usual his attitude needs some adjustment. Once he finishes his assignments for this week, I want to have him do some extra exercise maybe on the computer.
N.'s day wasn't as productive. I keep waiting for him to come down with something. Yesterday and today he has been sensitive, whiny, and just plain difficult. He only did his math and his memory work.
I need to do some research to help G. with her thesis stament. I need to read the story she read and help her define what is she wants to write about.
All in all, a good day.
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