Protest Tuesday

Already the protests and it is only Tuesday!

Got up this morning 8.00am and had breakfast, cereal with yoghurt. Then we got to school stuff around 9am -9.30. Aaron got through his math work with a little help from me. He never studies his multiplication table and it shows so I've challenged him to make a real effort as some of the harder ones aren't yet memorized. He whizzed through Reading Skills today as there were no sentences for him to write out and that pleased him! Halfway through however, his buddy Ashton came knocking on the boat to play. Ashton attends public school and is out for summer now, which could pose a problem for our schooling through summer me thinks! With ants in his pants, Aaron finished up his Reading Skills/Comp book and quickly read through his spelling list and promised to be home by 5 to make a start on spelling words- it isn't due till Friday- so I let him go. He has spent his afternoon fishing, trading cards and riding bikes with Ashton and another boy - I get updates when he comes in to grab a cold drink and he is off again. There aren't ususally kids around that much during the school months except for Ashton and even then he only comes to the marina for a couple of hours after school. He and Aaron would ususally play then but we would also be finished with our work by that time. I am sure Ashton will be knocking on our boat at 7am as he is spending the night with his Papa in the boat slip next to us.

Abigail spent her morning on my laptop following a website that teaches how to draw. She must have drawn a dozen animals - they are actually pretty good and she tells me that they were fairly easy to do. She also went on a couple of astronomy websites (her favourite subject at this time). Then she did a bit of her Reading Skills/Comp book and finally, with a lot of procrastinating and whinging, she moved on to math. Ughh, I don't know if she is going to be able to do 2 pages a day. I would like her to but maybe it is too much for her. She is good at math but it really irritates her. She has to use her brain a lot more than is required of her in English, Reading, Spelling or art. She knows the stuff but has a hard time concentrating sometimes and other times none at all, very wierd. I guess we will just have to see how we go. Tonight i'll see if she will help me make the chicken & pasta and salad as it's her turn on galley duties anyway, although that normally consists of just setting and clearing the table as well as drying the dishes for me.

This afternoon Abi and I are just chilling out in the boat trying to keep cool. She is reading Harry Potter ...again and I am looking up homeschool in the UK information as well as what year 5 and 6 math have in store for Abi.

We were supposed to do history today but Abi did astronomy so I let her off the hook and Aaron took off to play with his mates so I guess it's History tomorrow?

It is already after 4 o'clock. I have no idea where the day goes.