Day 1

Today went well. Monkey Boy has great theory and philosophy of math, but he goes so fast he makes calculation mistakes that piss him off. He can read and figure out word problems in his head and knows what he has to do but can't explain it. He needs better grasp of basic math facts. Also, he loves racing the clock, which is interesting because he feels like he needs to go fast all the time. But then he makes careless mistakes. The timer is funny. He wants it on all the time.

He was not thrilled about decorating the journal because he "hates art" so I guess this means I need to get a little sneaky in how we present art to him. I'm thinking linear and geometrical art. Something mathematical. Donald Duck's Mathemagic Land comes to mind, and I may have to pull that out tomorrow. He also didn't respond well to dancemat typing, so I'm going to get him onto typing.com, which is a little more straight forward with no frills. I think he will like it better.

He did make a funny comment about writing in his journal. The dreaded question - How many sentences does it have to be? I told him that he needed to write enough to communicate what he wanted. Of course, he wrote one sentence. My response to his journal will hopefully spur a few more tomorrow. 

Dragon Girl has been wildly independent. Got to work on that journal Sunday night, actually, and it's all decorated with pictures - front and back. She has no sense at all of the order of operations, but she LOVED graphing x,y patterns once she figured out how to READ the directions. She struggled with directions BIG TIME. She also finished the first three levels of Dancemat today as well. Oh, and she asked for a piano lesson; we got about 20 minutes in and she was done, but she does have 3 new tunes to practice.

Tomorrow I have a doctor's appointment in the morning, so I'm going to leave them a few things to do and then we are off to go grocery shopping. They both chose one recipe and wrote down the ingredients needed, so I need to add those to the list. They're also planning to cook their chosen meal! I can't wait for that either.

Pardon the play by play, but I wanted to get down as much as I could remember before I run off and get things started for bedtime.