Today has Been Great!!

Today has been great so far! I decided to say Screw the K12 schedule! We did some long division based on a worksheet that I found online, that broke the problems down into steps. It worked really well for him, it let him visualize the math. We tried hands on learning yesterday and then simply "doing it on paper" and both processes did not work. But today this particular formula worked very well for him. He thought that it was fun, did a few with ease on his own, and then I showed him how it works out the same way on paper, then I asked him to do another one, and then use his work to "do it on paper" and he did it!! No mistakes!!! I was so proud of him and he was so proud of himself!!!

It went something like this, in case anyone is looking for a better way to teach long division:

You have 79 pieces, sort them into 7 groups.
How many groups of 7 will you have?:_____
How many will be left over?:_____
Draw your picture here:

What is your Division Sentence:___________________

From there we did the traditional 79/7=.....

So that he could see how it works on paper as well :) He keeps showing me the hard way that he is more of a Visual learner than I had once thought. I figured he'd be hands on all the way......

Then we Did spelling, which I had him go jump on the trampoline for 15 minutes to go through his spelling cards. After that we did his test, for the second time this week and he squeaked by on that, but still passed. We keep the words he missed in his spelling box until he can spell them 3 different days and then they are taken out.

Now he is working in his AWANA book for Literature, he read from 2 Timothy and has answered some questions so far, and is now working of writing 3 sentences about each of 3 different people from the Bible.

After that I think we will use the K12 GUM to review his use of quotations to get him ready for his quiz on that tomorrow.

Then we just have Science :)!!! Today is going much better..... I think that I just like the thought of being able to just "go by the schedule" but really the schedule is like a ball and chain for us, if we try to follow it word for word, we end up getting strangled in the process.... So, I think that till the end of the year we will just fly by the seat of our pants..... 8 weeks isn't that long!

And Did I mention that my new friend Kristy is getting her KONOS Curriculum in the next few weeks, we are so excited to get to start plowing through all of it and to start planning for next year!!!