r maths 7 diagnostic

Today R did the teaching textbooks diagnostic test for maths 7. she basically knew all of it but the division. so we should probably buy it for the division.

Monday 30 July 12

F did lesson 10 of his maths.  This book is too simple for him it really, i would love him to speed through and move on to the next one. But F, speeding?
We talked about literacy "I was the smartest in maths but the dumbest in literacy"
I explained that he isn't in the least dumb in literacy but that at school they were teaching it wrong. He was quite enthused and we only had a few Q's left of maths, and he picked up his pencil & did them!
the point here is He Picked Up His Pen, i am usually his scribe and that's the first time he has written in months!
R has done page 5 of CGP KS3 maths. We struggled with changing a fraction into a decimal, we need a little help. We googled it, 1st site was mathsisfun.com and we could understand the sums, but cannot do without a calculator. So i am wondering if we would need this for a GCSE without a calc.

Well, today we did Quiz 1 of Fred's maths (in the book, he answer the questions & I scribe 4 him). Ruby did up to p4 Q2 of her CGP KS3 maths. did v well.

We did the next two lines of Before the Throne of God above.
Ruby made gluten-free pizza base.

Planning to revise with Ruby all her spanish from Y8 book.
Fred insists on french. need to go back to square 1 OR just put languages off again for a bit!!!
I wrote and emailed a report on all our learning for Local Authority.

Thu 7 June 2012

We read another chapter of Children of the New Forest, Ruby did a page of this KS3 maths, to give her a break from the big book. Fred did the first chapter of his new Teaching Textbooks maths.

The kids painted dracula teeth & blood dripping from their mouths, and then wondered why the insulation installer man was looking oddly at them!

Tuesday 6 June '12

Today we read chapter 3 of "The Children of the New Forest" (CONF).
And Ruby did the starter of chapter 2 of her GCSE maths book.
We received delivery of "Our Island History" and the Cartoon book of Modern History Part 2.
Plan:
I will make a map of the area mentioned in conf, and we will read the chapter of OIH that pertains to the conf.
We also took delivery of Fred's Maths: Teaching textbooks 5, but it needs a DVD rom drive, so i ordered one from Amazon. Can begin maths as soon as it gets here!

what do we do?

I've found it too hard to separate what's education and what isn't for the purposes of recording on this blog, so I just didn't bother writing anything! So for the moment I'll just be using my cheerfulmum.blogspot.com.

Titanic at the Maritime Museum

It was wonderful to meet up with "CHEF" Christian Home Educators Fellowship i.e. 3 other mums, a dad, & approx 12 other home ed kids to have packed lunch on the Albert Dock and then into the Maritime Museum for a history lesson with Dave, who presented a live action retelling of the fateful night 100 years ago, using us as the actors. There were plenty of artefacts to interact with, and we learned a bit about the construction of the ship, jobs involved, real-life people, a bit of sociology & philosophy thrown in!
It was surprisingly informative for one hour, and I believe the fun way it was presented will help the info stick in our minds.

Also, I sent Robin's deregistration letter into school today. Thurs 19 April will be her last day.