A Much Smoother Day

Woke up this morning and we had running water, electricity, ac going and all was normal and as it should be on the boat. I like when that happens!

Aaron and I cooked breafast together - eggs and bacon (cooking lessons). Abi began her work early today and was done by lunch time. She managed 2 lessons of math (yay). It was a lot of word problems and such. Then English - reading skills book, 1 lesson. She finished reading Harry Potter and started another novel, The London Eye, a mystery for kids. Aaron did 1 math lesson (lots of multiplication and division revision), 1 reading skills lesson and they both covered 2 chapters of history with me just reading the history book aloud.

Our history book, A Child's History of the World, is such a great read. Today we learned about the first printed book in Europe and that sparked a lot of talk imagining what life would be like without books, newspapers, magazines. We also read about Christopher Columbus and I learned a bit more about him than I knew before.

I let them off Latin for today as we chatted about history for quite a while. It seemed too much to fit in more book work. Aaron is reading National Geographic Kid's Almanac 2012 this afternoon. He is sad because Ashton went home and is no longer at his Papa's next door. He says he can't even be bother to splash in the puddles outside now (it is raining). Woe is me. I still need him to get his spelling sentences done for Friday test tomorrow.