Today was better than yesterday with the minor exception of it taking the girls 2 hours to finish their Columbus paragraphs. All the hard work was done yesterday, but the copying was just painstaking and it was hard to get them to focus. We've been using their book basket for research. They take notes on a a mind map, then narrate sentences for me to write out with proper spelling, and grammar. Then they copy. We started this method is first grade, because Yang always want to say more then she could write. In their previous school, they were only taught phonetic spelling. It drove her up a wall when someone didn't understand her writing. I have a beef with phonetic spelling, with no editing. I get that they just want to kids to write, but when the teachers didn't even correct the phonetics; how are the kids supposed to learn correct phonics? I swear this is part of the reason we have a generation of kids being given misspelled monikers in the name of Unekness ( And yes, I know a child with that unfortunate name).
By far the kids favorite activity of the day was building the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. They quickly turned pirate and began raiding each other's crews (i.e. grape and mini chocolate chips.) The even took their ships to show Grandma and Grandpa. Tomorrow they want to taken them to try the "rapids" in the creek. We'll see how that goes..lol.
Hulk fared a bit better as I made a concerted effort to give him occupation. He did reading on the computer and played play-doh at the table for a while. The play-doh though was one reason it took the girls so long to finish their writing. Oh well! Now to bed.
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