For Maddy

I like this little guy eating the dead flower leaves. I guess some snails prefer the taste od dry leaves.

Now I could have sworn I posted these here already. But I can't find them either- so I am just reposting them.

WEEKLY SCHEDULES

Worked on school lists for the week.

KI DAVID
MONDAY Sept 8
___Morning Chores
___Breakfast started by 9
___Going Places [1]-Correct problems in red Notebook Sept4 [2] Read from your Gloria Book 30 minutes
___MATH : Aleks

• Elephant 8s (15) and water
• 15 minutes quicktables
• 8minute break & CrissCross Marches (20)
• 20 Minutes Aleks Pie w/ Choc Covered Raisins *paper&Pencil

___ work on Zoology Notebook with mom for 20 minutes

___Do the first "Try This" in your Zoology Book

___Find Your Duffle bag for your trip, clean it out if needed

TUESDAY Sept 9

___Morning Chores

___Breakfast by 9

___Going Places: With mom-Google How to Make a Kite, write supplies in your notebook and gather needed supplies

___Math *Play PIG with mom. Maybe with brothers. (game/link- Thanks to TribeOfAutodidacts)

___Read in Zoology book with mom then Work in Notebook is still not done

___ Make sure to have all your clothes for the trip gathered so I can wash them is needed

WEDNESDAY Sept 10

___Morning Chores

___Breakfast by 9AM

___Going Places:

• Make Kite with mom
• Read in Gloria Book 20 minutes

___Zoology Book:

• Read (with mom)
• Do the 2nd "Try This"
• Finish Notebook

___ PACK YOUR BAG

___NO MATH TODAY

___Choose what is for Breakfast tomorrow

THURSDAY Sept 11

___Morning Chores

___Breakfast by 9

___MATH: Aleks

• Choose a Brain Gym Activity, drink Water
• 15 minutes QuickTables
• 10 minute Break and Brain Gym
• 20 Minutes Aleks Pie w/ Choc Covered Raisins (have paper and pencils and water bottle)

___ Turn in Your Science Notebook to mom

__Grab your Bags and leave with dad to the Train Station!!

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CONNOR

• To be finished by 3PM on Friday
• 'Daily work' done by 2PM for 45 minutes Computer Time
• 'Weekly work' (all school work) to be finished by 3PM on Friday for 45 minutes Friday Computer time. (if not-no Friday Computer. If not done by 6PM- no Saturday Computer)
• Morning Chores to be done by 9 (before Breakfast)
• Shower after lunch (& before After School Computer)

WEEKLY LIST

"DAILY"

1. Morning Chores before Breakfast
2. Read 50 minutes
3. Aleks 30 minutes a day- or more if needed to get to Weekly Goal

"WEEKLY"

• Finish ALEKS. You have about 2.5 hours of work until your level is complete. When it is complete you are done with math for the week. In fact, no more math until Sept 29. You get a break!
• Geology: 3 sessions @ 40 minutes each session

1. Read Current Events and write about 2 of them in your Science Journal.
2. Do Rader's GeoScience. Take the Quiz and record score in your Science Journal. Then Click the link :Next Stop on Site Tour and read on the site the remaining time.
3. Look at Rock pictures Online. Choose 1 rock from each category to draw a color picture of in your Science Journal (and label the rock with name and type)

• Social Studies: Read pages 5-8 sections III & IV. Do questions 66-104. I suggest You just read 1-2 paragraphs at a time, then answer what you can from that reading. I also suggest you do about 10 questions a day so you do not have 45 to do on the last day.

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GAVIN

*Monday he and I are going to the Coffee Shop for Breakfast and Physics Test. He asked if he can bring his notebook and I told him yes.

*I will send an email reminder that his notebook is due for a check next week and also to remind him do keep an eye on what needs to be done and how much he has left and make sure he gets it all worked on as needed.

*and he is still doing the S.A.T. Question of the Day most days

Sewing Suprise!

I have a sewing suprise! A plan I hatched. Now I will be motivated to get that Sewing Table organized and ready!!

The 4AM Friday Post

Why am I awake at 4 AM? To make myself some tea and do some pre-morning blogging, of course! It's not like I have anything better to do then lie awake at 3 AM for an hour and then decide I might as well get out of bed.

Wait. I did get out of bed at 3AM already. 4 wasn't the 1st time. Why did I get out of bed at 3 AM? To take a walk in my back yard of course. I had to check on my precious olive tree. Besides I wanted to make sure once and for all the "FSHOOOOOOOOOOOO-CHIG-CHIG-CHIG-CHIG-CHIG-CHIG-FSHOOOOOOOOOOOO-CHIG-CHIG-CHIG-CHIG-CHIG-CHIG-" really was coming from the neighbors sprinkler system and not coming from a group of sprinklers all strategically placed directly outside my bedroom windows.

I was right. It's the neighbor who thinks the lawn is best watered at 3 AM.

Then the big loud trucks start zooming down Stowell Rd and vibrating the house. But not at a constant stream. A few whizz by then it is total silence for 4 minutes. Just as I am about to fall back asleep another group of 2-4 rumble down the road.

The awakedness sets my mind to spinning with a dozen thoughts that all overlap each other as they vie for priority among the synapses.

• do I need just 1 laptop or 2 when Gavin and I go to the coffee shop for Physics test on Monday?
• Should I go over the Going Places questions with Ki or just mark the ones he needs to correct and let him do it himself.
• Is it worth it to just cure 6 olives? and if so, do I do green or black? Probably green, but I have never seen an olive in between the stages of green and black. I want to leave 1 on the tree to watch it ripen. Then I am curing just 5 olives.
• I wonder if I can find a good hummus recipe to make use of the avocados- which won;t be ready to pick till MAY!
• I really am not sure Sarah should be a VP. I think her kids need 100% of her right now, esp that new little one. I guess I am just sexist and overly Conservative.
• I wonder if the FOTO FRIDAY post is up yet?
• I need to go to Trader Joes on Saturday
• and the thoughts continue. They won't let me sleep.

The hope is that typing them all out will get them out of my head on the laptop and I can catch a few ZZZZZZzzs before 7AM

**Then I wonder--- "what if my neighbor read this? Would he be upset that I didn;t bring the problem to him first before blogging about it? Would he say "I wish you would have told me, I didn;t realize it woke anyone. I'll reset the timer."?

now I feel slightly guilty

Ki and the Pearicot

That is the new pear I bought. The man called it a Friar Pear and it was marked as such. But it looks like a pluot. The inside is NOT like the flesh of a pear, but like that of the golden variety pluots. maybe it's part nectarine?

Going to the Farmers Market has been good for Ki. Riding bikes is great exercise for him and therapy for his dyspraxia. Exercise is good for the lungs and helps the body fight against asthma.

And visiting the Famers Market has encouraged him to try new foods.

Ki is my Little Eco Friendly, Jr Environmentalist. He loves when we use our own grocery bag and it was his idea to switch to organic milk- when he was 7. When we stopped for out fruit icee yesterday he inspected the cup. It was recycle Number 1 and he was a little disappointed they coffee shop didn;t have a recycle bin and almost brought it home to put in our recycle bin. My bike baskets were full of our farm fresh produce and he didn't want to put trash with those. He picks up trash when we go for our walks or at the park.

Ki loves farm fresh food- or atleast the IDEA of farm fresh foods. Even though he is too picky to eat much that would come from a farm. But at the Farmer's Market they have fruit samples out at a lot of the stands and they talk to Ki and offer him a piece of fruit and he'll often try it, or if I try it and say it's good and buy it, he'll try it when we get home. Because the farmers grew it without chemicals like the fruit at the grocery store.

He and Connor like the Flat Bread I buy there. They were out of Boboli mini pizza crusts and tried a flat bread. They didn;t expect it to be nearly as good as the Boboli, but to their surprise they like it better! So they figured out the cost. I can buy a bag of 5 flat round flat breads for $3.33. The 2 Pack Boboli minis are about $4. Now the Bobolis are a teeny bit bigger, but for the price they decided the Flat Bread were still worth it and tasted better. They don't like the added spices and cheese in the Boboli Crusts.

CONNOR'S MODEL he was working on.......... a ballista

Connor posed this and had me take a picture of the AFTER from the ballista