Harry Potter geeks and more homeschool.

We are going to the midnight showing of Harry Potter tonight! Abi has been counting down the hours since we booked our tickets on Sunday. She is so excited. Like not normal excited. She cannot eat. She's had butterflies in her stomach all week. She isn't going to the bathroom either. It is not natural. She even covers her ears and hums if someone mentions the movie is tonight. I think she is slightly autistic. She made Harry Potter posters on Tuesday.

Aaron is excited as well, but not to the nth degree like his big sister. Justin started us out on the Harry Potter madness years ago so he is excited. I am looking forward to it but shall probably fall asleep as it is midnight to 2am or something ridiculous like that. I haven't been up at midnight in years. I usually don't even make New Year's.

So, being the concerned mother that I am, I have given Abi a lot of school work this week - to take her mind off of things, snicker snicker. She completed 10 lessons in Year 4 math as I have decided not to bump her ahead to Year 5 early. What's the rush I thought? Plus she is starting to get sloppy and make mistakes in her arrogance. Best to keep her humble me thinks. We finally pulled out the Latin books and DVD. She is not sure why she was reluctant to do the next lesson because it turned out to be soooooo easy peasy. She is more than halfway through the Latina Christiana book. She finished her Reading Comprehension book earlier this week so we are stuck for English/Literacy. I've ordered 16 Horrible Histories books so we'll be delving into those soon.

Aaron got through 5 online maths lessons this week. I've found multiplication games on the computer for him to play as well. Hopefully some of it will be memorized before long. He finished his Reading Comprehension book today which he's been working through since January. He has been working on his weekly spelling words and sentences. He even did some in cursive. He enjoys writing in cursive and does a very good job of it, much better than I ever did at his age.

We haven't been able to go out on the sailboat. It is either much too hot or much to wet. Heavy rains every day which make for humid temperatures even when it isn't raining. They don't seem that bothered about the sailing though which is a bit of a worry. I got this boat for us to use, for them to sail. I hope they become more enthusiastic about it once we take her out eventually. I just hope we don't have anything go wrong on their first trip, like engine failure and we get stuck out in the heat or rain. That could really put them off. Unfortunately we don't have a bimini over the cockpit. Neither one of the ones we have for other boats will fit it properly. So we are going to be rather exposed to the elements. But we won't let that stop us. arrrgggh. Summer school sailing ..... maybe next week will be better weather.