Latitude and Longitude

From the book, Latitude and Longitude by Rebecca Aberg, we learned about (what else but) latitude and longitude. They learned words like, equator, prime meridian, hemisphere and grid. We looked at the lat. and long. lines on our globe and atlas. Afterward with a ruler, pencil and paper, they made their own world with a grid labeled abc... and 123... Luke got really into his own imaginary world with scores of islands named Toon Island, Discover Island, Wow Isle, Kid's League Island and on and on. It sounds like that was a great lesson there, but they were driving me nuts today. I don't know if it's because I am not in a very flexible mood or if they were indeed extra crazy, touching everything, interrupting skipping off, etc. And Sylvia didn't help by stripping down naked and escaping outside during everything. Tomorrow we are just going swimming. (and maybe math and reading.)

A Brief Summary

Luke finished Harry Potter 2 (whatever 2 is called) for the second time.  The girls listened/looked at a bunch of books on tape.  Luke and I put a load of pennies in order by their date (just because.)  Isabel made us Macaroni and Cheese all by herself.  They did their Math.  We picked up their friends, Aden and Morgan (track break) and now they are playing.

Color Wheel

The other day Luke was asking me about the color wheel so with a little help from Google images we looked up some color wheels. I briefly told them about warm colors, cool colors and contrasting colors. This morning I had color wheels for them to fill in but Luke was not interested so here is Isabel's cute wheel.

What Luke was interested in was having me play his Line Man World 3. I certainly didn't know there were so many rules. You can kill a guy by circling him, there was one level that I could only "jump" 2 millimeters high and at the end on level 10 he got out his pencil and tried to bump my pencil into the spikes. Wow, what an exciting game. Luke says that he wants to be a horticulturist and his hobby to be designing video games "just for his family."

Isabel drew a map this morning and practiced in her writing book. I read some Shel Silverstein poems to them and now they are doing their math. Now I need to go read a book to Sylvia because I feel so guilty for constantly saying "later" to her.

Sylvia just now saw this blog entry and wondered where her color wheel was, so here it is. (Those are faces, and the blue was Isabel trying to encourage Sylvia to COLOR her color wheel.) Hehehe.