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!
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