Today we got up but didn't bother getting dressed. It's cold outside and quite frankly none of us have any desire to go out in it! I had an 8:30 meeting and the kids woke around 9. We skipped breakfast, but only because everyone was feeling too lazy and content to meander downstairs to get anything. After my meeting I had a few tickets to do but not much going on today. While I worked on some of the more mindless aspects of my job the big 3 came in and sprawled out around me as we talked about the day.... James (who was up too late last night and still sick too) and the Bug (also still sick) were still in bed. We are at a point where we've been in Ancient Greece for awhile, but it's been scattered over 2 months time due to travels and the holidays. So I took a quick break and we went over our points of interest and discussed what we've covered and what we haven't. Found a few topics we hadn't discussed yet and the kids wrote lists and/or paragraphs about toys kids in Ancient Greece played with and what kind of pets they had. They then drew and labeled the 3 types of columns found in Greek architecture that's still prevalent today..... we've been discussing these and finding them all over the place over the last few weeks, but the drawing and labeling was something they all wanted to do. We followed that up with a quick discussion of famous Greek architecture and specific buildings... the Parthenon, the Acropolis, and so on. I was working during much of this while the kids were nearby with another laptop researching and discussing all of this and writing in their notebooks. When they finished that up I took my first real break of the day and read 2 short stories (each story is about 5-7min long) out of "Classical Myths to Read Aloud". We are really enjoying this book! That is their literature portion of this segment of Learning Adventures: A World of Adventure. After that I went back to work while they worked on math. They continued to work on math as I broke for lunch and headed downstairs to make lunch. James and K woke up sometime in the middle of Ancient Greece, before literature time. He checked and corrected their writings from this morning as well as their math. During lunch James rolled into science with a discussion of bones as our topic today was the Skeletal System. Before returning to work I started them on their skeletal project. Using Bethany as a model, and quite a bit of masking tape, Roman & Hope created a full size (or rather, a B sized) skeleton. They had great fun. James found the old "bones" song online and played while they worked..... you know, "the foot bones connected to the ankle bone, the ankle bone's connected to the leg bone, the leg bone....". I'm sure it's already stuck in your head if you have any clue as to what I'm talking about! LOL Here's a few pics of our lovely model.
While she doesn't look like the happiest of skeletons, I assure you she was. Perhaps this pic is more convincing:
And of course it wouldn't be complete without the "Skeletons are scary" pose!
I headed back to work after that and the kids are now all playing for some free time fun.... daddy too. During Katy's nap here shortly the big kids will calm down for some quiet time reading - one on one reading with daddy for B - and finish up math if needed, and they all owe me their daily practice lessons for today still which are normally done first thing or during breakfast. They still need to practice their music (drums for Roman and Hope, guitar for Bethany) for 15-20 minutes and they've taken to walking on the treadmill for 15-20 minutes each a day too (and that part can be done during nap time, but the drums will wait to the wee one is back up). Otherwise, for today, that's enough! Next we are officially starting Spelling Power now that I understand it better, or think I do at least!, and B will tighten down to a more formal schedule of Explode the Code and Hooked on Spelling workbooks. That should round out our day for now. I am looking at a new writing/grammer program to incorporate, but that will be several weeks off IF I decide to change it up and go that route. For now though, this is a full homeschool day in the life of the TERDS!
It really was a great day at the TERD school! I don't always have the luxury of participating so much with the homeschooling daily stuff. Feeling very thankful that for today I did, and it was FUN!
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