On a productivity roll

Today was yet another productive day. I’m definitely on a roll. The devotion today was called “National Be Bald and Be Free Day.” The bible talks about people’s hair length and Jesus talks about hair too. He was talking to a crowd and his closet followers. He said, (paraphrased)…the hairs on our heads are numbered, but don’t worry about things because we are more valuable to God than a flock of sparrows. (Luke 12:7).

The math lesson today was about estimating and rounding decimals. The lesson itself was fairly simple and we would have gotten through it much faster had it not locked up on us toward the end. I sent JD on a break and went back through the lesson myself to get us back to where we were before it locked up. When I finally got to the point where it locked up, it locked up again. I finally just closed the lesson and had JD do the quiz. He scored a 90%.

For social studies today we watch the DVD America: The Story of Us. We started learning about when America was becoming divided. We learned about and I took notes on the industrial revolution. More specifically the Erie Canal and the cotton gin. It started to tell us about the issue of slavery and how the south used slave for the new “white gold.” (cotton) (We absolutely love this DVD.)

Today in science we learned about the respiratory system. We learned the three main parts were the trachea, the diaphragm, and the lungs. We did three pages in his workbook. Page 60 (labeling the parts of the respiratory system), page 61 (labeling a close up of the respiratory system), and page 62 (a respiratory system crossword puzzle.) Then, we did a review on various different systems, parts of the body, skeletal system, and muscular system. (Workbook pages: 42, 43, 50, and 52.)

I had my cleaning job today so I took along the language arts lesson. First I had JD read his book for 30 minutes and then I had him do two pages from his language arts workbook. He reviewed making and breaking up contractions and irregular verbs. He still complains about the amount of writing but I still have him do it. His handwriting is getting better though.

Football practice was a bit messy because we got some rain today. JD was doing some hard hitting.