Gaining Momentum

First grammar lesson.

Today went very well despite me being sleep deprived after a rough night with the baby.  Michael was great though, and read his history assignment when I took an hour long nap after breakfast. Once I was up he asked to do his typing lesson first, to "get it over with." I must say that I'm very proud of him for getting his least favorite subjects over with first, rather than putting them off or stalling!  He did very well, and even asked to play one of the games!! He also did his Spanish lesson without complaining!!
Today was his first Grammar lesson, which he had no trouble with. The format of Growing with Grammar allows for the student to work independently, freeing me up to feed the baby. The only difficulty was keeping the dogs out of the way.

The peanut gallery.

Writing today was a bit more of a struggle. His assignment was to make a list of goals for the school year.  After convincing him that "GoaLz" was not an acceptable way to title the page he managed to come up with three, including "a short school year."  At least he was honest :)  The etiquette lesson went better, probably because it was about polite usage of cell phones.   

His math work was excellent, and he seems to really enjoy his vocabulary work. He knew the basic meanings of several of the words from reading The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, Book 1), but insisted on looking them up in the dictionary to get the complete definition.  He doesn't get that kind of perfectionism from me, that's for sure!!

In the afternoon a friend came by to show us how to change out a car battery. Michael and I watched closely and I feel pretty confident we could do it ourselves next time.  Then we finished the schoolday by reading aloud a few pages from Story of the Orchestra  and then listening to the corresponding tracks from Wagner and Vivaldi in the car on the way to the grocery store.  Michael greatly preferred the Wagner, saying it sounded more like Star Wars theme music. He also said that "there are not enough words in the universe" to say how much better it was than music class at his old school :)

snuggled up watching a documentary

Before bed we watched

 Egypt - Engineering an Empire on Netlix. I had planned on only watching the first 30 minutes but he was so engrossed that we watched the entire hour an a half!  Excellent program, and I look forward to watching the rest of the series when we study Rome.