His essay paragraph

Fred's first essay work: write a paragraph on My Favourite Hobby. 

Friday 10 May '13

Today we did our devotion from Thoughts To Make Your Heart Sing, then handwriting:
we read thru the introduction & practised the correct pencil hold. spoke about sitting position and inclination to obey the letter-forming instructions.
 F became quite tense during this talk. We prayed.
Then maths.
F did draw a couple of diagonal box method multiplications & fill them in himself.
R had a bit of confidence trouble with factoring, reducing, canceling etc so we had a read through the last 3 lectures and then she produced this "infographic":

wonderful!

Then F & i read a page of his ks2 english about clauses & phrases,

and R & I read up to page 11 of her new Essay Writing Course.

it is quite good at explaining stuff in a simple way.

inevitably R had to write one paragraph about her hobby,

"I don't have a hobby" - I told her to do it about playing sims.

R refused to write or even say aloud an introductory sentence about playing sims. She admitted that she wouldn't because it might not be perfect. even tho' it would only be me and her, and no trouble could come from it being wrong.

Then, once she had moved the laptop out of my line of vision, she began writing in earnest and soon had banged out a nice full paragraph on the laptop.

It should have had a final/conclusion type sentence, but we weren't sure what to put there, so she didn't.

Playing Sims

I like playing Sims. Sims is a computer Game where you can customise (or choose default) characters and then create a life for them. I like it because you can give the people beautiful houses, they could be anything from gothic to girly, grunge to modern. Another good thing about Sims is the wide variety of jobs available. Admittedly most of my Sims become rock stars, but you could become an international super-spy or mutant-robot cross breeder if your Sim was either of those ways inclined. 

I am very happy with this for our first day's work!

Wed 8th May '13

4 types of animal cell:

Today we talked about the spanish inquisition, 

the difference between Martin Luther & Martin Luther King Jr!

 And had a look at the 95 theses, 

and watched a youtube "95 Theses Rap" 

- i got 95 theses but the pope ain't one!

Also read a chapter of The Corn Grows Ripe, and the first chapter of "the phantom tollbooth"

Thu 2 May '13

OO! Just paid for R's Catherine Mooney Essay Writing course £130, it wasn't a bargain, but we need a little help in getting R confident in prep for iGCSE english, which we will also be using Catherine Mooney for.
catherinemooneytutoring.co.uk
We do need to work on her handwriting too. I have bought Getty Dubay Italic Book A, basic italic

Wed 1st May 2013

We completed day 4 of Sonlight week 1. -native americans, their sign language etc.
R completed maths unit 34.
F did maths unit 70.
We did "Antagonistic muscles" - the last unit of Life Processes on bbc bitesize ks3 science.
R looked at Post War Success p12 of Japan.

Antagonistic muscles

wed 20 march '13

bsf: talked about our birthright - being born into a country where we can freely read bible & attend church.
maths: 1 chapter each.
biology: gas exchange. printed out a ks3 syllabus based on bbc bitesize.
code academy. did if/else statements, alert. we are on 18/28 on Javascript intro to programming.
handwriting... did Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg.. then F needed a stress break! Will have to slow down on the handwriting! R took it in her stride though.

Tue 19 March '13

We had brunch out at subway with dh.
we did: BSF finish the week - yay!
biology: revised MRS GREN, did the respiratory sytem - f did a PS3 pic.
hebrew, revised & did "yes, a little "
maths: r lesson 30, f lessons 64 +65
We talked about Catherine Mooney Essay course, R agrees she could do this now.
We looked at a diagram of GCSEs/A-levels/Uni and talked about what a syllabus is and what an essay is.
Spoke about handwriting... I MUST download some worksheets.
seemed like a good day, especially F's attitude to division lessons!