Archive for January, 2006

January 31, 2006

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

We started school at 9:15 this morning.
Warm-up: I wrote “My favorite candy is” on the whiteboard. Both of them said their favorite candy is SweeTarts. Probably because they were eating them at the time.
Language Arts: Ani did 3 pages in her Phonics Review workbook. She read lessons 55, 56, 57, 58, and 59 in her […]

January 30, 2006

Monday, January 30th, 2006

We started school around 1pm today.
Warm-up: I wrote on the whiteboard “Mud feels like”. Cameron told me all about what mud feels like. Ani wrote that it feels like mush and slush.
Language Arts: Ani did one page of her Phonics Review workbook. She read lesson 54 in her McGuffey First Reader. She did a handwriting […]

I’ve Been Tagged!

Monday, January 30th, 2006

My friend Becky tagged me. Here’s my answers.
Four jobs you have had in your life:
1.) A kid’s gym where we took care of the children while their parents worked out in the regular gym
2.) A place that stops people in the mall to ask them to fill out market research surveys
3.) A therapist office where […]

January 28, 2006

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

Since we skipped school on Thursday and did Thursday’s work Friday, we did Friday’s work today. Normally I would have just moved Friday to Monday but Jamie is taking a college class for the next four weekends so he was gone all day. Needless to say Ani was thrilled that we were doing school on […]

January 27, 2006

Friday, January 27th, 2006

We didn’t do school yesterday. Ani was in a really bad mood all morning because she was worried about her dentist appointment in the afternoon (she was getting fillings). As it turned out she needn’t have worried since she actually enjoyed the appointment and didn’t have any pain at all.
Today we started school at 10:15.
Warm-up: […]

January 25, 2006

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Ani wants to do more school (length) and have homework, too. She had trouble going to sleep again last night so Jamie gave her a dictionary to read this time. She looked through it and ended up reading some in her McGuffey First Reader before finally falling asleep.
We didn’t start school until 2:15 today. This […]

January 24, 2006

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

We got started about 9:30 this morning.
Warm-up: I wrote on the whiteboard “When it rains I”. Cameron drew a picture of himself under an umbrella stomping in a puddle. Ani wrote “splash in puddles” (she spelled puddles puddls at first) and drew a picture of herself splashing in lots of puddles.
Language Arts: Ani did two […]

The Child and Her Brain

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Ani is a really funny kid. She is normal when she’s around other kids and plays with her Barbies and things like a normal nearly 6 year old. She holds age-appropriate conversations with other children her age (the very serious conversation between Ani and Buddy - he’s about 3 months younger than she - at […]