Today has been a good day so far. We have done a reconnaissance on the house. (too lazy to look up spelling on that one so anyone feel free to enlighten me)
The kids did weeding (yuck!) but we've decided to do yard work for twenty minutes in the am and twenty in the pm. S of course asks if she can do her full forty all at once. Sure, says I.
Do forty minutes of weeding in 94 degree weather and 100% humidity.
She did it.
And it looks great.
And she is proud of herself and subsequently is now in charge of all weeding activities! Ah, parenting.
We broke out the math-u-see again and S and R are teaching L all about decimal street and place value. Lots of fun.
Everyone did their personal bible study (yay!) and we had Family bible study as well which we had missed for a few days.
I worked on writing skills with L an am convinced that she is NOT dyslexic. I sit with her and discuss writing from left to right and letters mainly going to the right and she understands. I give her a sentence. She writes it correctly (and beautifully if I may add) so I ask her what she is thinking when she writes things backwards. She replies that when she writes she is just "writing" the word and she doesn't CARE which direction it goes.
This makes me laugh and in a perfect unschooling world I would continue to let her, all the while crying "individualism" and "creativity" and "marching to her own drum" rhetoric, but alas, we are a civilized people (digging this run on?) and I tell her "Well, I care" so she must write correctly.
We are making bread today after the store and have just all around had a good day.
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