Early Start

Evan started school early this morning, at 8:42 to be exact. That's when he came into my room and asked if he could get up. I invited him to snuggle for a bit and told him we would get up at 9:00. Unfortunately, he had a great view of the clock so the countdown began! "Eight-forty-three, seventeen more minutes. Eight-forty-four, sixteen more minutes, Eight-forty-five, fifteen more minutes..." This did lead to an enlightening discussion on seconds, minutes, and hours,how many seconds are in a minute, and how many minutes are in an hour. So I missed out on the extra seventeen minutes of sleep I was hoping to get. But I did decide to count that as Math! Later he did two pages from his A Beka K math book which we haven't had out since before Christmas. That's not to say we haven't done math since Christmas. We just haven't done workbook math. Math happens all the time... even at 8:42am when Mommy is trying to sleep!

I really dislike Sonlight Science. It's B-O-R-I-N-G. It's mostly just reading books and answering questions in the Science notebook. That was alright when the reading was about animals and therefore interesting. But now we're reading about energy, conduction, convection, radiation... stuff that we do not find interesting. I try to lighten it up with some simple experiments but even the fun of spilling blue water all over the kitchen can not make up for the mind numbing reading of The Usborne Science Encyclopedia. We were trying to read about radiation today but the stupid book jumps all over the place. I already knew we wouldn't be doing Sonlight Science next year but now I'm not so sure we can make it through this year.