Our Day..

Just another typical day as far as school goes.  We are working on our AWANA verses and books because we have AWANA tonight.  We work on them all during the week but we review on Wednesday to keep it fresh in their minds.

Mikayla listened to "Heidi' on audio, worked on times tables using an ipad app.  For her copy work, I had downloaded (who knows when because I download stuff and then forget that I downloaded it so I am trying to make it a point to check my homeschool folder and my download folder for things that I want to use) some poetry entitled "The Months" by Sara Coleridge.  She also worked on math problems and her times tables using an ipad app.

Tony worked on reading out of his online McGuffey Primer reader and also worked on a lot of copy work.  He had to redo a page because he didn't follow my instructions and then he had to do it over again, because he didn't hear/follow my instructions again.

I am working with both of my kids on their attentiveness.  I noticed sometimes, or actually a lot of times, they hear me but they don't always HEAR me.  I don't like repeating something when I know they heard me but they weren't being attentive.  I think it is a habit, especially being homeschooled because you know your teacher will have the time to explain things to you if you don't get it the first time, which is true, but, they have the responsibility to be attentive and focus on me and what I am saying.  I love this definition for being attentive:

Showing the worth of a person by giving undivided concentration to his words.

If someone is important to you, you will listen to every word they say.  When we are dating, we hang on to every word that our soon to be marriage partner says.  We look at them, acknowledge what they are saying, etc.  We need to do that with every person that God places in our path.  Show others worth by listening to them.