Productive day

Today was a good productive day. We breezed right through each lesson. I even told JD how proud I was that we were so far ahead.

The devotion today was about the “cornerstone” of buildings and such. The cornerstone is the most important of all the bricks, after all it is what gives the structure the strength to hold all the others bricks up. Some people might build their life on money, possessions, or worldly success, but we need to remember that none of those will work as a sufficient cornerstone. Christ should be our cornerstone as referred to in the bible. (Acts 4, Eph 2, 1 Pet 2.) Otherwise, like a poorly constructed building, everything will crumble. It is my earnest prayer that each of you reading this has accepted Christ as your savior so I can share my cornerstone with you.

JD reading his Odyssey book for 30 minutes and then we moved onto math. I needed an easy lesson today and easy it was. It was about comparing and ordering decimals. Decimals have gotten easier for both of us. We just look at it like it’s money. Today they asked which number was bigger. If we line up the decimal points on each number it’s easy to see which “pot of money” is bigger.

Today in science we back tracked a bit and looked at the gall bladder, liver, pancreas. Once we learned about them we moved onto the heart and the circulatory system. We learned the heart had four chambers and labeled all the parts of the heart. We also learned the difference between a vein and an artery and their functions. Then, we worked together to accomplish several workbook pages. We did page 55 (answered questions), 56 (labeling the heart), 57 (drawing the flow of the blood), 58 (labeling the heart), and 59 (crossword puzzle).

I was looking at the cash I earned this weekend for pet sitting when I noticed one of the dollar bills had “Track this bill…go to Wheres George.com. So we entered the $1.00 bill‘s serial number and saw that it only had two entries on the site and one was ours. That’s weird for a bill printed in 2006.

For social studies today we watched the DVD America: The Story of Us. We briefly learned about the Alamo, the 1848-1855 Gold Rush, the 1818 milk sickness, the Trail of Tears, and the use of the Mississippi River. Today I only took two pages of notes. I felt like there were important details missing so I drug JD to the computer to learn a few more facts about each thing we learned about today.

I had JD work in his English workbook today. He had to write the plural form of singular nouns and vice versa. He completed pages 31 and 33.