Tuesday*Mom is getting a cold. :(

It's amazing. I've been homeschooling for about 4 years now and all along I've been waiting for days to resemble one another. Just one. predictable.day, I've been waiting for it. Well, it's finally, at long last happening. The days are predictable and we are starting to fall into a routine. Amazing. The boys are old enough, I guess. I know life will change, but this is a nice pace.

Bible

Luke 9:1-17 & Discussion

Scripture memory work

Math

Nate & Eli trudge through a few math worksheets, and I teach them Lesson #45 from the Saxon book. I don't have a workbook, but since my teachers guide shows the problems and answers I teach them on the board and we count money, look at the calendar and the clock. Easy Peasy.

Joe, on the other hand is not wanting to school today. He gets to head off to his room until he's ready to "work diligently." He knows it's expected and necessary, if unpleasant today. Math.

Presentations

Joe and Nate tell the Aesop's Fable they'll tell in class tomorrow. Eli struggles with it, doesn't want to tell the story. I wonder if it's too big a concept. I pull out googly eyes and look for popsicle sticks to make puppets, visual aids to help to tell the story. I can't find popsicle sticks so we'll find some in the backyard to hold our puppets. Nate & Eli choose the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, we create our puppets and when all are finished I'll put on a puppet show to help give the boys ideas how to tell the story with their puppets tomorrow.

Joey comes back downstairs, gets a snack (maybe he didn't eat enough breakfast?) and declines puppet making but instead begins on Math, reading aloud to me his work while I fold laundry. I'm not listening too much unless he asks for help but reading aloud seems to do the trick today. He finished with little trouble.

Now the boys are on the trampoline, I feel crummy like I'm coming down with a cold. I have to prepare for tomorrow anyhow, so maybe we'll do easy reading, Joe can finish his final draft and I'll get a little nap in there before gymnastics at 4:00.

Lunch time.

*We've still been reading On the Banks of Plum Creek and I've been neglecting my copy of Story of the World. I'll pull that out today, maybe even read a little if I feel up to it.