A schedule...

She is planning the perfect day for Sunday

Friday

11a    - Khan Math academy
11:3      - break
12:30 - geography with World Explorer program
1:30 - counting money, library card discussion, charts
2p - break

3:45 - shopping
4p break
4:30 - peel an orange
 planted radishes
 board game / book
6:00 wooden fairy project
6:30 - done

Thursday Greenhouse and more

 

This is the indoor greenhouse that Mark got for our anniversary.  And, now it is in its home at the top of the stairwell where the light is nice and there is a little space for us to work in.  It will be a few months before it is time to start tomatoes and peppers, so I picked up a few things Esme could plant now and watch over in the meantime.

Esme helped me put some dirt I had mixed the other day into the pots, and then plant some coleus and parsley.  The geraniums were from the last 'greenhouse science' we did, and she measured the biggest one and the smallest one and wrote it on the calendar (in the blue folder) with the seed start dates.

 

Coleus is pretty!

  The seeds covered up with saran wrap to help keep the water in until they germinate in 7 to 14 days.

8.30a    - Gardening, starting seeds, measuring distances
/after we measured the plants, she had to measure herself,and me, and the distance to the ceiling in the room.

9.15a    - writing in diary
9.30a    - discussion of public school
9.45a    - drawing
10.15a    - reading "Charlette's Web" chapter 9
I read - she listened, and kept track of what was happening and guessed at the meaning of words.
--during this time she also played Jungle house with her baby dolls and drew me a very nice black panther with a butterfly on its nose :)  Then I got to the end of the chapter and had to get ready for work.

11a    - break


12.45p    - Electric Company (ep 223, 227)
1.45p    - cooking; measuring spices

2.15p    - done

We'll probably do library tomorrow...

Tuesday Wednesday

2015-1-14

8am - long conversation about learning, schools, women's roles in other places in the world, work, what it takes to learn the skills for 'society now' (reading, writing, spelling, math), comparison to her public school experience (extension from talk she started last night)...

We discussed she had to find what she wanted to do and tell us - so we could make 'the days not all boring' (which is what she said when I said today was not a town run day) - but somethings took time and others we wouldn't know she wanted to do until she told us (like the weight lifting, or the rollerskating obsession).

I told her she had choices now, in this time and in America (Liberty's kids came into play here, and talk about China, Japan and women in the military), to learn all things, whatever she wants - if she tells us we will help her explore until she finds what she wants to do.  I said she didn't have to learn just carpentry, or farming because her family did that - she could learn anything.  Then she took the conversation by the tail (as she often does) and said she wanted to learn more farming things.. and came up with wanting to milk a cow and learn how many days a chicken takes to hatch from an egg.  I think I have a lead on a dairy goat farm we can go to - but the cow would be a bit tougher.  We can definitely look into the egg thing.  And she wants to help me more in the indoor greenhouse planting things tomorrow morning 'for school'.. she was so happy the geraniums are still alive.  I brought her home some parsley and coleus seeds to plant.

9a    - math worksheet (greater and less thans)
9.15a    - copy poems
10.15a    - PE (250x jumping jacks, 50x 5lb deadlift, 30x 10lb squats,
      100x 10lb bench press)

10.45a    - building birthday card
11a    - wrapping presents
11.30a    - break

12p    - Liberty's Kids (ep 37, 38, 39, 40)
1.30p    - done

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2015-1-13

7a    - store & town run, why streets are where they are, etc
8a    - break

9.30a    - copying poems
10.30a    - break

11a    - co-op and bank
11.30a    - break

12p    - pbskids.org
1.30p    - Liberty's Kids (ep 36)
2p    - done

Monday Math Esme says hi to the blogosphere

Esme says 'hi' to blogosphere

hi Zoey my age is 7 and my room is a jungle and I have a tent.

 I made nunchuks last night.

more later!

//Mom added this curriculum record in later:

8.45a    - math worksheet
9.15a    - reading Zoey's blog
9.45a    - Liberty's Kids (ep 33, 34)
10.30p    - break

11.15a    - math worksheet
11.30a    - break

12.45p    - handwriting, copying poems
1.15p    - Liberty's Kids (ep 35)
1.45p    - copying poems
2p    - pbskids.org
3.30p    - done

project bits

I put the greenhouse together, today - and set some soil out that will hopefully be planted with cabbage and lavendar later in the week.  Our geraniums from our experiment a while back are still going... and we have lots of seed for them if we need to replace them before the season is here.  It won't be here till April - yes, I'm jumping the gun..  but I have a seed addiction...beans, corn..and other things.

Esme did a few of her own projects today - a jungle in her room with vines, a well-drawn monkey, and a temple with gems and a robot guarding them with 'traps'... Then she looked up more goat simulator stuff, sucked me into playing for an hour (we got the statue in the storage container hanging from the crane, very hard even as 'feather goat' - I will try go get it 'regular goat' next time, so we can do the robot quest).. and then she made paper tube nunchuckas with Daddy, and he got out his real ones to show her how to do it with hers.

I sat down at the desk and finished out a few tying of ends on knit projects, repaired a pair of pants and two toys, then played with some plastic canvas to make a little desk organizer thing.  It was nice to get a few little things done...

Now Esme is promising she will have lots to do tomorrow and be in a good mood to do it.. we'll see.

Note to myself:  I should make up a few new planes for the shop, orange and white one and green and white one.