It has been a busy couple of weeks! As last posted our company finally arrived, and then left! LOL! Okay, so there was a week in between the two events! It has been busy though. Visiting, playing, having Uncle tickle the girls to make them scream. All fun stuff!
Our oldest daughter set some goals for the classroom Olympics - and reached ALL three Math goals. It was pretty tough - LOTS of math last week, but her workbook is finished, so it paid off! She was so happy today when she remembered it! Don't panic, the program we use has two workbooks per year, so she still has one full workbook to do. She really was glad to see one down though. It gives such a sense of accomplishment! So anyway, we didn't do a ton of Olympic stuff, because she was just working away on Math, and fitting in Language Arts and Handwriting. I need to do a quick oral book report for the three novels to see if she met that goal as well.
We got our timeline mostly up on the wall. Time is ending right now at 1699 so I have a few more years to put up there!
We learned the hard way some police lingo! Do I have your attention on that one? Yes, if you ever hear a City Police officer say "confirm code 3" - he is just letting the 911 dispatcher know that it is a false alarm! While I was putting up the timeline, dd3 dialed 91196666. Of course I asked dd1 to take the phone from her and turn it off when I heard it beeping, but it was too late! Then when the 911 dispatcher phoned back to see if we were okay, I told Uncle not to answer it, because it was ringing as the secondary line and I was too busy with the time line to talk to anyone about homeschooling right then! OH! It was pretty mortifying! So when Uncle tried to use the phone to call out, there was the 911 dispatcher, with the line open, waiting for confirmation from the dispatched officer that everything was okay at our address. What do you say, all I could do was apologize. I couldn't even threaten to lock her up, otherwise they may have found a reason to stay! LOL! I guess it's not so bad to get through 9 years of parenting without it happening, but hopefully that is the only time.
Dd1 started skiing lessons today. She had a lot of fun...although it was VERY tiring for her. When we were returning her rentals she looked like she was going to be sick, so I asked her what was wrong. Her answer was - "I'm tired, and hot, and HUNGRY!" It was very cute! She had dance class after skiing, so you can imagine she was pretty worn out at bedtime!
Speaking of dance, her evaluation is over, she got through it! We won't know what the outcome is for a few weeks, but she did it! Now they are working on the routine for the recital, which I peaked a little at through the window today! She said it is being danced to one of her FAVORITE pieces of music - Beethoven. (I'm going to have to check the title of that piece and get back to you!)
This week will be mostly skiing lessons in the school department. She can go as early and stay as late as she likes, so we might as well go a bit early and let her get a bit of practice on the hill. The more she practices on her own, the more confident she will be in the lessons. I think I will have her do some of the CAT-3 test in the mornings before we go. Every section is only about 15 minutes long, so we can do one or two sections each day. That is how it is meant to be administered anyway I think, each section is timed, with a maximum allowable time per test, so I think we will do them over the course of this week, as they have to be done this month to make the results valid.
Well, that is a bit of a catch up! Hopefully you don't find out what the code is for a false 911 call at your house! Take care!