Abi and Aaron have plodded on with little prompting from me this week to get their work done. Aaron did a Latin lesson, started a new Reading Comp book (Guiness World Records) which he loves, read books, practiced cursive writing, completed 5 maths lessons, used the computer for looking up rainforest spiders, a history lesson and spelling sentences and test as well as a maths test (times tables). Abi did 10 math lessons, her new "We Believe" Grade 6 books (given to us by the church) in place of reading comprehension which she finshed last week, a history lesson, read numberous novels, spelling sentences and test.
I started giving them Pokemon cards as a reward for reading books about a year ago. Aaron still needs this motivation and so was happy to earn 4 cards this week! I think he has gotten the reading bug finally. Abigail read several books as well, so also got pokemon cards but I just gave her a few (she reads too many books for me to keep up with her in cards). I would have thought she had grown out of them by now but apparently not. I think she uses them as bargaining power over her brother. They ususally wake up in the morning and read for an hour before they jump out of bed. It is nice and allows me a chance to grab a coffee.
Our Horrible Histories books arrived and we love them! I glanced through them and found myself unable to put them down. They are so much fun to read. Abi read, "Bloody Scotland" from start to finish in about an hour. I saw Aaron reading, "Cut Throat Celts". I read, "Loathsome Londoners". We still have plenty more, 16 in total plus 3 science books, which should keep them entertained for a couple of weeks I hope.
For part of their lessons, I usually give them the watered down kid's version from Sunday's lesson at church. This week there was an activity for them to do! They had to draw a garden and then stick cut outs of weeds on it that were labelled with a personal problem they had. Each weed was to respresent something that might interefere with their relationship with God, a sin or something of that nature. The idea is to notice the weeds in your own garden before picking others. Over the course of the week they can remove weeds if they feel they've improved or add weeds if they discover more. Naturally my little angels couldn't think of a single weed they might have! After some thinking Aaron came up with, "not studying my times tables" halleluha! He never thought of another one. Abi can tend to me our "little miss perfect" in her mind so I had to help her along. Aaron suggested "shouting" for one of her weeds. He was also just trying to help. She eventually wrote that one down but refused to put anymore in her garden as it would make it ugly. I suggested "talking back" to which she responded indignantly, "I don't talk back". Hmmmm. My weed, okay one of many I probably have but the only one I shared with them was, ashamedly, cursing, to which they both agreed whole heartedly. Little toe rags.
Independently, Abi has begun sewing. I say independently because I don't sew. I actually despise it so therefore am keeping out of it so as not to spoil her fun. She buys material at Goodwill in the form of big girl clothes and cuts it up to make new clothes. Since Walmart quit carrying bolts of fabric there is but one fabric shop locally and it has very little on offer for a very dear price. She got one brand new $35 blouse for $2 at Goodwill! This is her own little venture and she spends all of her own money on it. I am quite proud of her. She has made several tops, hair bands, skirts, gloves, socks etc for herself and clothing for her brother's stuffed animals - the Meerkat that now wears a tie is my favourite. All of her clothes have her "label" in them that she has made. At this point she is sewing by hand. I have a sewing machine that my optomistic husband once bought me. She can have it as far as I am concerned when she is ready.
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