Chana has switched things up in her schedule. She was taking Mishlei 2x a week in the morning and although she was enjoying the class, waking up in the morning was excruciating.
I also had been a little concerned that she was spending the entire week recuperating, to the point where she had no energy to read the Stranger and no energy to learn Bio, despite the fact that questions keep coming up and the answers are in the Bio book, if only we would learn it!
She also missed Torah SheBaal Peh from last year. That was amazing. I specifically wanted her to get a feel for the halachic process and gain an appreciation for the complex system of halacha and that's not my area at all. I am beyond thrilled that she got that from the class last year, and that she was missing it!
The school, as always, was incredibly wonderful and accommodating and agreed she should try it out. She went yesterday and enjoyed it. We'll see if the schedule change works for her.
Another change we made is that we've begun doing Bio at 10pm. Pretty agonizing for me, as my brain turns off at 8 or so. But I'm not as exhausted as I used to be (though Aharon is STILL on daylight savings time and waking up an hour early) and if I'm feeling awake at 10, I'll ask if she wants to learn, and 90% of the time she says yes.
And here's the kicker. She literally has THREE times the attention span at 10pm. She could only get through a paragraph before. Now she can do a whole section.
She's given up on Teaching Textbooks for geometry. It was clear, but slow and boring. Her best friend tutors her once a week. I have no idea how that is going. I insisted that she take the PSATs (much to her annoyance) and I guess we'll see how she does. She didn't have enough time to finish any of the sections and when she was tested by the state, they agreed she was slow but since she's working at grade level, she didn't get an IEP. We have to decide if further testing is called for. She also wants a specific calculator. Not sure if it's even worth investing in that if she doesn't end up going to college/taking math. It may be that going to community college first and then transferring is better for her. It may be that she won't want to go go college right away or ever. (As I'm thinking out loud here, I think it is a good idea to buy the calculator. I already spent more than the calculator on Teaching Textbooks, and she wants it to take the ACTs, so it's probably worthwhile.)
The boys continue to bombard me all day long asking how to spell words. They have been making videos and uploading them to youtube. They've also been playing Draw Something. So there have been a lot of things to read and write.
The house has also been getting pretty messy. Since KonMari, I haven't needed to clean up so frequently. The basement and their room keep getting messy as they make their videos and use all sorts of props. And the floor keeps getting littered with paper scraps. Even when they vacuum after themselves, they just don't clean or neaten up to what I like. So after being spoiled for over a year with KonMari neatness, it has been a bit of an adjustment to clean up every day. But it doesn't take that long.
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