Daily Notes 10/18/12

I'm going to try to keep notes at least a few times a week on what we do.  Even if it's just a few lines.

Today was our first day of trying our new schedule - which is me working one on one with each kid for 45 minutes while the other kids get a total of 1.5 hours of screen time. Right now they can use half of that for minecraft or other approved entertainment and the other half has to be some kind of research. The video time is definitely one of those things that keeps evolving.

In any case - I first learned with Aderet.  She had not eaten breakfast yet so that kind of slowed things down but even so we were able to do 3 pages of ETC, a page of math and read a Bob Book together. She had already done her Hebrew in the morning. During her video time did some minecraft and then watched an episode of How Things Work. She told me after that it was about corn and all the different products that can be made from corn. She was particularly excited about using corn to make oil for mechanical purposes such as drilling.

Then I worked with Avigayil. She wanted to do IXL math so I signed her up for that. She practiced for 15 minutes. She also did several pages of ETC. I started putting some of her ETC words into Spelling City but she was pretty done at that point. For video time she watched an episode of America's Test Kitchen as well as the How Things Work episode with Aderet.

With Adin we had a conversation about goals. We talked about how we could incorporate writing into his life in a way that excites him and practically works for him. He liked the idea of writing blog posts and he on his own initiative wrote his first one today about buying a new bike (which he ended up doing - I'm sure pictures are to come). He did not have any math as we were unable to coordinate with Safta that well this week. We watched an 11 minute video from Kahn Academy on the Electoral College and talked about it. Adin thought that the Electoral College was the stupidest idea ever and wondered who came up with that idea. I probably learned that at some point but did not remember. I'll have to look it up.  For his video time he watched America's Test Kitchen on how to make Pizza (which he was very excited about) as well as Myth Busters (which was about how germs spread).

I guess that was more than a few lines!