Fun HOT day!

Today was another beautiful day. It was hot here though. JD and his friend played on the trampoline with the garden hose. Even after all the outdoor activites we had I still stayed outside after school and replanted some trees and bushes into our front yard. (Something about increasing our property value.)

Today is National Honesty Day! That’s what our devotion said anyway. There was a guy once that measured out some tea for a woman. The next morning he realized he had a 4 ounce weight on the scale. He made things right and delivered her “missing” tea. That man…was “Honest Abe.” God also values honest. If God delights in honesty shouldn’t we? (Another tidbit about Cheryl…I HATE dishonesty more than anything else.)

The bible reading was from Genesis, chapters 38-40. Chapter 38 snuck up on me with Judah and Tamar. Where Judah’s son Er married Tamar, but he was wicked so God took his life. Next in line to have children with Tamar was his brother Onan. But Onan refused to have children with her so God took his life as well. Next in line was the third son. But he was too young so Judah promised when he was of age they would marry. Time went on and Judah had not sent Shelah to marry Tamar. Tamar tricked Judah into sleeping with her and she became pregnant. Tamar had Judah’s twins! Chapter 39 was about Joseph living in Potiphar’s house and being in charge of all his affairs. Potiphar’s wife tried to get Joseph to sleep with her and when he refused she told a lie about him that sent Joseph straight to jail. Even in jail God was with Joseph. Chapter 40 was when Joseph was put in charge in the prison. While in prison Potiphar’s cup bearer and baker were sent to jail too. Joseph interpreted their two dreams. What do you know they came true. The cup bearer lived and the baker died.

We finished up the Final math lesson today. It was all about stem and leaf plots. It had him find the range, mean, median, and modes again today. He does so well with these lessons. He scored a 90% on the quiz. JD has a final math grade of 95.3%. That‘s an “A!”

Today’s keyboarding lesson was from level 3, stage 8. It ret aught him the letters “B” and “N.” I was showering while he did his lesson so I don’t know if he was looking or not. I told him to do his best without looking.

We used the edit/rewrite lesson to finish typing the alphabet alliteration poem. It turned out pretty crazy and cool all at the same time. I will working on more poem types in the future. I just wanted to get him warmed up and getting use to nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

We did our last two lessons of the day on the road. JD read the last health lesson in the car on our way to a field trip. The lesson was on goals again. They talked about finding things that he was interested in. Then it discussed the two types of goals. They are short and long term goals. It ended with JD looking to the future. So JD’s final health grade was an outstanding 100%. There were no quizzes to grade so I graded it strictly on lesson participation.

We took off before health to get my North Carolina tags for the Ford. Then we went to the park to meet our co-op group called FAITH. I haven’t had much luck getting to know anyone. There is a play date set for the last Friday of each month at one of the local parks. Today we went there and there were only two other moms with younger children there. Turns out they were dissatisfied with Overhills Elementary School too. After a short visit with the swing set and the two other moms JD and I took off to pick our own strawberries. It’s not far from the house. JD asked why we just didn’t buy the buckets already picked and I said because we wouldn’t have made this memory together. We really did have a good time picking them. We had a contest to see who could find the biggest one and the ugliest one. We also had fun watching the migrant worker picking the same amount of strawberries as she ate.

Of the fifteen four letter spelling words JD got…all fifteen correct! They were tough silent lettered words but he pulled off another 100%. So much for never getting an “A” on a test (in public school.) Three more spelling tests left.

I can see the light at the end of 5th grade and Elementary School. Yippie!