a rewarding day

Granted, if I measured it in the number of dirty dishes in my sink or the number of laundry loads finished...it would have been a total wash.
But on the "raising men" front, it was a grand success.

We started school late and did the bones, math, grammar, handwriting (fine motor skills), speech, and Latin. M started a new Magic Tree House book. He's easing into chapter books. It's not so much a problem with reading as it is a vision problem. Right now, he's not in glasses because we are still trying to get his eye aligned. But he has an astigmatism and all those words on a page...with no pictures...well, they just all run together. It's hard for him to stay on the right line and keep his place. Hopefully, that will all change next month when he gets new glasses.

J is still reading 21 balloons. He cam running excitedly to explain the professor's balloon to me. Once he said it was a hydrogen balloon, we took off down the rabbit hole to the Hindenburg and its tragic end. (Titanic of the Sky)
Then we dove into blimps in general and how they work and why we no longer put hydrogen gas in them. (Cool blimp site)

That led to a chemistry discussion on my Helium, a noble gas, is safer than hydrogen, a highly combustible gas. We also covered some buoyancy which led to displacement.

We had a late lunch of chicken noodle soup and crackers while the boys worked on their weekly Sudoku puzzles. Afterwards we baked 3 dozen cookies and the boys ate a few and played outside until it got dark.

When ZooDad got home, he was intrigued by the Sudoku puzzle so he and M did one together in a race against me after dinner. (I won!)
ZooDad loves that I am pushing the logical thinking right now. Thinking skills are most important in this household. The logic puzzle were the best thing I ever got out of my gifted "class." When you know how to think, you can figure out the rest.

Then I knitted, (That blue hat has been pulled out and started over. A decided he wanted the dark blue first and I would agree that it looks better.) and ZooDad and the boys went upstairs to work on Cub Scout awards. They finished all the work to earn their computer belt loop and pin.

3 B's...Bath, books, bed and it was time for my favorite show of the week...CSI.

Good day.