Madison heard "Oh, Susanna" today for the first time in piano class, but then again so did most of the students. How is this possible? How can you go eight years without hearing that song? Daddy can play it on a harmonica, as can probably most people. And by week's end, Madison will know how to play it on the piano. Add that to the song about Jericho, and she's got a good little catalogue of songs to play for visitors. Mrs. Pam has been masterful in directing and entertaining and most importantly teaching the kids in class, and everyone has been doing their homework each week. We're been a class together for nearly three years now, advancing strong. At the moment, though we can see some challenges on the horizon, it appears as if we'll be able to keep up with the homework. One thing that strangely helps is having ballet on Mondays instead of Thursdays. That gives us a day earlier to begin our work, which is good for getting early momentum.
We had another big storm today - we were watching it come in as we left piano practice. It was resting over our house, where Mommy was. We called her in the midst of the storm, but all seemed to be well. It was just a pretty big, heavy rain with lots of thunder to go around. More of the same is due the rest of the week.
It did make for a glorious sunrise this morning. It was one of those sunrises that Madison took note of on the way to school. On the drive there, she kept coming up with ways to describe it, as she thought it was simply marvelous. To her, it was like the North Pole, with bits of ice cream and orange waves and cotton candy. It was memorable.
The ride home from school was much darker, with menacing clouds heading towards us. We drove through the storm without much of a problem though. We got home and did our homework for the day, covering spelling lists and doing our math problem drills. She's supposed to do fifty of these addition and subtraction problems in less than three minutes by the end of the year. By the end of the quarter, she's supposed to have about 30 done. She's reached that first goal, having completed 30 today. She's on target, but we'll keep the drills going. Particularly helpful will be the flash cards we just found.
We found ourselves doing a bit of this or that - and Madison is reading fifty minutes a week now as well. She did that for about fifteen today. Of course, Daddy reads to her too - tonight we finished the latest Never Girls book, where Kate goes off riding on a mist horse without telling anyone, and of course is gone for the entire book worrying everyone. Obviously, everything works out in the end, and the fairy Silvermist even learns a thing or two about herself. As I Daddy though, I just wish Kate there had a better understanding of what she put all the others through! But I guess without that, there wouldn't be a book. So we're done with book number four, which brings us to look for book number five at the library. This has been a fun run - we've got a few more books left to read though.
But homework did absorb a lot of our time. It is certainly something that is taking more time this year than last. But Madison seems to be sailing through most of it. Maybe one or two words on the spelling list will cause her to slow down, but so far we're doing well with things. In fact, it is surprising how much she knows already. We sort of want to help things along, and assume she might not know it all. But in fact, she knows more than we think she does. Which is kind of cool!
We had another big storm today - we were watching it come in as we left piano practice. It was resting over our house, where Mommy was. We called her in the midst of the storm, but all seemed to be well. It was just a pretty big, heavy rain with lots of thunder to go around. More of the same is due the rest of the week.
It did make for a glorious sunrise this morning. It was one of those sunrises that Madison took note of on the way to school. On the drive there, she kept coming up with ways to describe it, as she thought it was simply marvelous. To her, it was like the North Pole, with bits of ice cream and orange waves and cotton candy. It was memorable.
The ride home from school was much darker, with menacing clouds heading towards us. We drove through the storm without much of a problem though. We got home and did our homework for the day, covering spelling lists and doing our math problem drills. She's supposed to do fifty of these addition and subtraction problems in less than three minutes by the end of the year. By the end of the quarter, she's supposed to have about 30 done. She's reached that first goal, having completed 30 today. She's on target, but we'll keep the drills going. Particularly helpful will be the flash cards we just found.
We found ourselves doing a bit of this or that - and Madison is reading fifty minutes a week now as well. She did that for about fifteen today. Of course, Daddy reads to her too - tonight we finished the latest Never Girls book, where Kate goes off riding on a mist horse without telling anyone, and of course is gone for the entire book worrying everyone. Obviously, everything works out in the end, and the fairy Silvermist even learns a thing or two about herself. As I Daddy though, I just wish Kate there had a better understanding of what she put all the others through! But I guess without that, there wouldn't be a book. So we're done with book number four, which brings us to look for book number five at the library. This has been a fun run - we've got a few more books left to read though.
But homework did absorb a lot of our time. It is certainly something that is taking more time this year than last. But Madison seems to be sailing through most of it. Maybe one or two words on the spelling list will cause her to slow down, but so far we're doing well with things. In fact, it is surprising how much she knows already. We sort of want to help things along, and assume she might not know it all. But in fact, she knows more than we think she does. Which is kind of cool!
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