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Nov. 4th, 2006 10:05 pmToday was a long day. But it felt somewhat productive. Brad had to go into school to work on papers that involve classified info so he can't do it at home. He left about 9 and got home about 7:30. So it felt a little lonely around here. I had nothing planned for the day and honestly didn't really want anything since all four of us girls are sick now. Nasty drainage, caughing, sniffly stuff. Sore throats. Headaches. Low grade fevers. Fun fun. I REALLY hope I at least feel decent tomorrow. I REALLY hope I don't feel worse. Because, you know, I'm supposed to be teaching Sunday School for the first time since I became Orthodox. At least the preschoolers won't notice too much my lack of theological knowledge.
We did manage to stay pretty busy and not bored. We cleaned some. Made bean art (different kinds of dried beans glued on paper). Zoe got very into that and she made a shaker with an empty water bottle and dried beans. They had done that this week at preschool and she thought it was so cool she wanted another one. We did tangram puzzles. Luci wanted to do her workbooks, so I brought some of those out and worked with her on shapes mostly. Mari read to me several times (Hop on Pop and Green Eggs and Ham). I found a diagnostic placement test online I had her do that told me she tests in math at about 3/4 of the way through an academic kindergarten and tests in language arts/reading at about the middle first grade level. Interesting. She just thought the tests were fun worksheets and they were a springboard to talking about counting money, reading clocks, fractions, and plus and minus signs. So...kind of a lot of "school" stuff for a Saturday, but honestly, they all thought we were just playing. I'm tricky like that. Heh.
Luci had a couple of meltdowns and was in a screechy mood, but I think that is just because she isn't feeling very good. If they all wake up as congested and miserable as they woke up this morning, I may ask Brad to just stay home with them. I hope we don't have to do that. Number one, I'll be lonely and number two, I don't know if I can get to the church by myself. I haven't driven it alone yet!
We did manage to stay pretty busy and not bored. We cleaned some. Made bean art (different kinds of dried beans glued on paper). Zoe got very into that and she made a shaker with an empty water bottle and dried beans. They had done that this week at preschool and she thought it was so cool she wanted another one. We did tangram puzzles. Luci wanted to do her workbooks, so I brought some of those out and worked with her on shapes mostly. Mari read to me several times (Hop on Pop and Green Eggs and Ham). I found a diagnostic placement test online I had her do that told me she tests in math at about 3/4 of the way through an academic kindergarten and tests in language arts/reading at about the middle first grade level. Interesting. She just thought the tests were fun worksheets and they were a springboard to talking about counting money, reading clocks, fractions, and plus and minus signs. So...kind of a lot of "school" stuff for a Saturday, but honestly, they all thought we were just playing. I'm tricky like that. Heh.
Luci had a couple of meltdowns and was in a screechy mood, but I think that is just because she isn't feeling very good. If they all wake up as congested and miserable as they woke up this morning, I may ask Brad to just stay home with them. I hope we don't have to do that. Number one, I'll be lonely and number two, I don't know if I can get to the church by myself. I haven't driven it alone yet!
