A so-so day

We did our daily devotion that led us to the book of Micah. I mistakenly read Micah 2 instead of just Micah 5:2. Then, we read some more of Psalm 119. (The author still desperately wants to know and obey God’s laws.) We should finish Psalm 119 tomorrow. Since “Jeff-a-pedia” has so many versions of bibles in our living room we looked at a couple of them to read Psalm 119:105 which says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path” to see if they read differently. Not too different. After our bible time I had JD read for 30 minutes. It looks like he’s nearly done with the next Odyssey book called High Flyer with a Flat Tire. If he keeps going like this I’ll need a book club card.

We started a Science block called Your Body Systems. Today we only focused on the skeletal system. We learned there are 206 bones in the body. There are 26 bones in each hand and foot. So 26 x 4 = 104. (Did you see that math sneak in there again?) So more than half of the body’s bones are in our hands and feet. We learned the five types of joints and the four types of bones. We also learned about cartilage and ligaments. Did you know that the bones in your body make up for 18% of your body weight? (So I haven’t really gained weight over the years, my bones must just still be growing! Smile)

We briefly studied about the United Kingdom today. We learned that England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland belong to the U.K. Ireland itself is a country on it’s own. We hit a rough patch with JD on this lesson. It was just after lunch and I had called him away from the TV. He was watching a show about a guy that swallows swords and jackhammers. So when I took him away from the TV I got a negative attitude through the social studies lesson. (Bummer…the U.K. was just getting interesting.) They have beautiful castles there.

Today for math JD and I sat through a lesson on writing exponents different ways. We learned how to write them: exponent notation (33), reading them (3 to the third power or 3 cubed), expanded form (3x3x3), and standard form (27). It was a fairly easy lesson. JD scored a 90% on the quiz.

JD finished up a literature study on a portion of a story called The Hero, by Stephen Crane. It was a literature piece about the civil war so I thought it might capture his attention for a while. He read two pages and went onto answer some questions about the story. The worksheets taught him comprehension, vocabulary, and idioms. It further taught him how to write using complete sentences. I made this the last lesson of the day so he would finish it up right away and be done for the day. It worked! (Kill his time, not mine!)