We had a smooth, successful morning, which reinforces my observation that J-Baby responds best to academic work in the morning.
Just how are we managing to get so much done in the mornings? We're waking up early, which is new for us and somewhat unusual among the homeschoolers that we know. I don't really love getting up early but I do love how I feel when I have accomplished so much by noon, and I enjoy my afternoon quiet time more when I don't have any major tasks pulling at me.
Our Focus Lesson/Project today was introducing the boys to their Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way Quest Guides and creating a science time line for our family/learning room. Happily the time line started to draw J-Baby into what we are doing, as yesterday he expressed his disappointment that our science book isn't full of one experiment after the other. We made the time line out of old dot matrix continuous feed printer paper (Grandma gave us a big box when she broke up housekeeping) and will add our events using small sticky notes.
I also took a quote from our book and made a poster from it, and we talked about what it means and how we might say the same thing today:
Yes, it's Waldorfy, but it doesn't really have a pink background ~ that was the lighting. And I cut off the picture, lol. I should have pulled out the real camera and not used a camera phone, but hey, it's better than nothing.
Both boys misspelled yellow on their spelling tests, despite our having had color name flip books in this house for years. Go figure.
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