8:35: We almost managed to start on time today. Like yesterday, my daughter and I started on the couch while her brother had time for which I cannot account. On the couch, we went through this week's Classical Conversations memory work, she said 15 weeks of history sentences, we practiced more of "The Duke of Plaza Toro" (a poem by W.S. Gilbert), and she read the first story in George and Martha aloud to me.
We moved to the desk, where she did a lesson from RightStart, Level B on skip counting by various numbers. We followed the lesson with a skip-counting card game and a RightStart game called "On the Number", an addition game using two or more addends. We followed that with another lesson on abbreviations of titles of respect from First Language Lessons, Level 1. She spelled 13 words using the spelling rules introduced yesterday from Level 2 of All About Spelling.
It was another milestone of sorts today, because she did her first hard core dictation from Writing With Ease Workbook 2. She already has done easier dictations from All About Spelling.
10:00 (or thereabout): It was my son's turn. He started on the couch doing the exact work as his sister (like yesterday) except he read two more chapters from The Tale of Despereaux.
He, too, moved to the desk next, and practiced cursive by copying this week's Classical Conversations history sentence from Prescripts Cursive Sentences and Art Lessons: Medieval to Modern World History and completed a narration exercise out of Writing With Ease, Workbook 3. Next, he did another lesson on plural nouns from First Language Lessons, Level 3. I dictated and he wrote five sentences from All About Spelling, Level 4. Finally, he did a lesson on division within a group out of RightStart, Level D.
We then took a short break for lunch, which lasted about 20 minutes.
12:15ish: I read to them Esther chapter 8 and "The Master Cat or Puss in Boots" from The Blue Fairy Book. Next, like yesterday and the day before, they each practiced their violin in succession. Then we took a longer break in which they watched TV and I rested.
2:00: We went to our respective rooms for Room Time. I heard a CD player going so one of the kids was listening to something narrated by Jim Weiss (there's no mistaking that voice).
3:00: I read to them from Story of the World, Volume 2 on the Crusades. We followed this with an oral lesson, experiment, and a notebook page on how the eye sees light from Science in the Beginning. As the last act of bookish learning for the day, my daughter did another RightStart lesson, this time on fractions (halves and quarters) while my son spent 20 minutes on DreamBox.
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