Today was a busy day. We spent the first part of our morning reviewing all the challenges we have for ourselves during the summer (i.e. summer reading programs, short story contests, piano practice goals, etc.), then introducing the new math system, and lastly discussing our new reading day incentive program. The kids were thrilled to learn about reading day. We spent a while talking about what kinds of things are good behaviors and how they might earn a full jar. Then we talked about those 3 horrible words "I don't know," and how we can avoid saying them and hence losing beads from the jar. They both had excellent ideas and at least twice I saw them working hard to change "I don't know" into something more helpful. They really did a great job today.
Math was a little longer than I hoped. This is one of the issues with having 6 and 7 year olds working from 4th and 5th grade levels. Even after only doing the even problems, they both spent over an hour (Aiden 90 minutes) on their math assignments. I'm sure this will improve, but right now they were doing a lot of new things since I didn't know exactly where to start them in their new curriculum. Zoë was working on reading mixed numbers from a number line and Aiden was working on transformations of geometric figures.
After finishing piano, spelling, Spanish, and writing, we ate lunch and went to the pool. An hour after we got to the pool it started to thunder so we decided to pack up for the day. Hopefully, this is how most of the summer will go (without the rain interruption). Now if I could just get back to getting up at 5 a.m. to go to the gym, everything would be in order!
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