This week was crazy. It began with 14 year old step-daughter managing to get suspended until the 19th, so she is home for ten days straight. That meant me having to run across town to her school every two days to pick up her homework. She has not done a thing all quarter, as usual, so is failing 5 out of 6 subjects, and in danger of failing 8th grade. I informed her she WILL do her work here at home, and not be sleeping all day. This was fine in theory, but in reality she drove me crazy. She accomplished quite a bit, and hopefully enough to pass, but she needed me to walk her through every single assignment. She and I spent tons of time revising, researching more material, and finishing her report on Edgar Allan Poe. It actually turned out to be a good report. We spent quite a bit of time with me trying to teach her 6 years of WWII in one day. Maybe if she had paid attention in school she would have a clue! She did well, but I had to "hold her hand" more than I do the younger two! With B taking up all that time, I schlepped on poor C!
We also had our newest dog, Shadow, neutered Thurdsay. I had to have him to the vet at 7:00a.m., and pick him up Friday. We waited 40 minutes to pick him up. His pain medicine makes him nauseaous. He threw up most of the afternoon/evening yesterday, so several clean-ups, and one carpet shampoo were unexpectedly thrown in my day.
I guess E's week wasn't bad; we finished two of her books, so she currently has 3 to work in. We did school 5 out of the past 6 days. E is only 5, and we get tons done in about 45 minutes-an hour. Most of E's work is done near bedtime. She gets wound-up in the evenings, and school-work gives her something fun to do, while keeping her and C seperated. Much quieter than no school. : )
C, however, accomplished virtually nothing. As posted earlier, she did complete her 3rd grade Math final exam with an A+. Wednesday she did flash cards and wrote a beautiful essay for her sister (A...17) as a birthday present. Her writing is improving. Thursday we finally got back to History; it had been 6 days. We also did math orally together....a page of think and solve problems, and we began on dividing with a remainder. That could have waited until next year, but we have been doing division basic facts anyway, and it came up with one of our word problems, so we just went to the first lesson in our extra textbook, and discussed remainders, and worked through 30 simple problems together. Friday we did only History. I can truly blame the poor dog for this, though. Luckily C's official year is complete, and we are just killing time with review, and the "fun" subjects for a few weeks until our official summer term begins.
I was discouraged over our lack of school this week. But all I have to do is look in my box of finished work, and in C's binder. We HAVE accomplished more than I thought we would in 4 months times. Several completed books (the box has room for only one more), and her writing skills have dramatically improved from even just 6 weeks ago.
I hope we get A LOT more work done next week.
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