Sophie's doing well with her busy schedule now that the play is back on! When she's not skating and working on school, she's busy studying her lines and already has most of them memorized and ready to rehearse. I want to take this time to mention a few things about Sophie and Lily's health and well-being as we're rounding off the month of October. The girls are rested, healthy, well fed, and happy. They eat three good meals a day with healthy, readily available snacks and water whenever interspersed. They spend quality time together playing and learning and crafting. Sophie still spends a lot of time with some friends, particularly Sadie. It's hard because of her busy afternoon schedule with skating and dancing and now rehearsal to connect her with any school-friends. She did meet a new girl at rehearsal, however, who is also homeschooled. She hasn't had one bit of cold or anything and I hear there is a nasty flu going around. She tended to always be able to ward off school-sickies but Lily usually brought quite a bit home from daycare. This extra advantage of homeschooling has recently presented itself and I am grateful for it!
I appreciate the good breakfasts and easy-going approach to the mornings of homeschooling. This is particularly nice as the mornings are darker and colder by the day and the urgency of having to get up and moving is relieved. She still starts school at approximately the same time as public school, sometimes earlier, but our life is minus the rush of the public school mornings. For that benefit too, I am thankful.
The time we spend together at the farm as been really wonderful as well. The girls are both spending good time with my Mom and Bill learning at the farm twice a week. This lets us get out of the house without having to go to a public, busy, uncomfortable space and continue to homeschool. I truly believe the village raises the child. I truly believe that one of the best gifts we can give our children is other people to love them and teach them. Mom, "Gamma" is a talented artist but I think an even more gifted art teacher. I am truly amazed at the progress Sophie has made already and how much she has learned and created during her art lessons. I look forward to her future projects and lessons and masterpieces! And the good, hard work Sophie's doing with Bill is significant and important and Bill has a way of always making it fun and interesting. No sitting at a desk staring at a black-board diagramming sentences for this fifth-grader! Bill challenges her brain and her capability of critical thinking and she's thriving on the lessons. And Lily LOVES the farm. It's probably where she is most happy and comfortable with her self. She plays and explores and works on her workbooks or play games with Bo (Bill) and Gamma. The time we spend at the farm also allows me to work outside, doing my stall chores and lately getting the gardens ready for the winter/spring, which relieves Mom and Bill from some of the hard labor that rewards us all with veggies and peace and good food. For the time at the farm every week, I am also grateful and blessed.
Sophie and I are getting close to finishing our first major unit: The Age of Discovery. We have a good amount of work to complete in the next couple of weeks—finish Astronomy and complete Constellation "Lab;" Web Quest on French Explorers in Canada & the Iroquois Nation; Astronomy Web Quest; Scrapbook Pages on Cartier, de Champlain, Iroquois, and Astronomy; Act 2 Scenes 3 & 4 (possible 5); Rehearsal and Performance of Play; Review of Explorers You Should Know; Review of Astronomy; Long division Review; Portfolio Presentation of Age of Discovery Scrapbook—and all this before Thanksgiving!
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| lily at the farm |
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| Lily coloring while Sophie works on school |
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| Sophie hard at work |
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| Sophie's script |
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| Running lines before skating |
Language Arts with Bill
Grammar Lesson: their, there, they're
Its, it's, it is
Whose, who's, whom
Silent reading
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, Chapter 1 & 2
Workplace visit: Fairchild Semiconductor
Visit Workplace: Fairchild Semiconductor
- What does Fairchild Semiconductor do/make?
Computer chips—all different kinds!
- What is a "wafer"?
- What is Dad's "title"? What does he do?
Systems Engineer—makes servers work on the networks
- How many people (approximately) work for Fairchild?
9,000
- What does" 24/7" mean? How/Why does Fairchild work 24/7?
24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The factories run 24/7
- What is a server?
A computer that's dedicated to a task
- What is a network?
It allows other computers to talk to each other
- What is a "cube"?Where people work
- What is Dad's "team"?
The Windows Novell Team
- How much money does Fairchild Semiconductor make annually? How much does a chip sell for?
Explorers: Henry Hudson
Explorers Who Got Lost, Dreher
Play: Act 1, sc. 1
Act 2
Scene 1
Location: main deck
Cast: Ariel, Ben, and Samuel
Name of scene: Feeling better
Dialogue
Samuel: ( bailing out water) Ben, come over here lad( Ben goes over ) Now lad, you made through your first storm, you should feel brave, courageous, more mature, tell me.
Ben: Yes Samuel, I do feel more mature and more courageous and not so frightened. I do miss Ariel though, she was my very best friend.
Samuel: Well, I don't know what to tell you lad, but I'm glad you feel alright, now how about we cheer you up with a little art lesson eh?
Ben: Yes, I'd like that, thanks Samuel.
Ariel: Ruff, Ruff, Aoooh! Ruff, ruff!
Samuel: Now, who could that be?!
Ben: Oh Ariel, I've missed you so much!!! I thought you went overboard! Oh I love you Ariel!!!!!
Ariel: Ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff!
End of scene 1
Sophie's Blog Today I had my lesson with Bo, he told me some stories about his childhood ( they were funny ) And then we picked a new novel to read. I picked Phantom Tollbooth because I like fantasy stories. We did some grammar work, with it's and its. And there, their, and they're, as well as whose, who's ,and whom. I learned that now, mostly only butler's use whom. " Whom do you wish to see!" Ha ha ha!
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