Monday, Tuesday & today...

Monday: We started out with math, doing some counting exercises, where you say "43 is 40 plus 3". We were going all the way from 1-100. C.O. was doing pretty well with it, and we were going through moderately quickly, but he was getting a little tired of it by about 84. No problem though, because C.J., who was busy coloring a duck picture, piped in "84 is 80 plus 4, 85 is 80 plus 5..." and so on, up to 90! Then C.O. took back over and we finished that up. Then he did lessons 16 A & B in his Saxon math workbook. We moved on to Maps, Graphs, Globes and tied that in to local geography, so we spent some time pouring over maps of northern California and our area. After that, they just wanted to play, so they went outside and had P.E., which meant they rode bikes around on the sidewalks that circle the lawn, tried to climb trees, and played keep-away with neighbor kids until dark.
 
Tuesday: Had a playdate with D4 and H3. Their mom is due on Friday (a second girl), and partway through the playdate I realized she was being pretty quiet - turns out she had been having regular contractions for over an hour! She had planned this as the last activity of the week, and was determined to allow the kids to have a good time. After the playdate, we hurried off to soccer practice. C.O. did well with one-on-one kicking practice, but seemed a bit tired by the time they got to full-team practice. I think he might be happier with a more individualized activity, so he's seriously debating between Aikido and gymnastics for after the soccer season.
Then we came home, made a pasta dinner, sat down to eat, and C.J. got halfway through and fell asleep in her plate. So, C.J. and I had some nice quiet time after dinner to do Saxon math 17, and a few pages in HWOT, then two pages in HM phonics.
 
Wednesday: C.J. had some alone time with M today, so they repotted some succulents that M has had for about 8 years, while C.O. was at his enrichment class. This afternoon we are doing some HWOT, followed by work on C.O.'s new readers (we're starting with Dan Drum). After that, we may do some math, since that is C.O.'s favorite subject at the moment. Then I'll finally get to read them the family tree book I got from the library!