Week 9: The "We Really Should Have Done This Earlier In The Week" Edition.

Today is Friday, which would ordinarily be the start of Week 10.  However, Skeeve's work schedule was severely borked this week, which means our weekend was Th/F instead of W/Th.  All that should have needed accomplishing today was Monkey's science experiment (a flip book on phases of the moon), but due to general craziness and the aforementioned borked-schedule, we also needed to review unit 2 of reading and re-do history.

The science lesson went well.  Very well.  Everything else... was like pulling teeth.  And that was putting it lightly.  History was a page and a half read aloud with two narration/review questions.  Half an hour to finish the read aloud, and another 15 minutes to finish the questions.  Reading, we spent more time watching Monkey's fingers pretending to be Thing 1 and Thing 2 who were going to read the words than we did actually reading the words.  However, when he actually focused on the words in front of him, he read them just fine.  His fluency and speed still are really bad for level, but he can do it.  I suspect when we find something, anything that really interests him, though, he'll take off.  

Tomorrow we start our official Week 10.  We will add in logic 1x week, which will be simple - at least to start with.  I suspect these concepts are not going to be new or difficult for him, at least not at first.  Once we get into the swing of things, it'll be much easier, and I'll be able to better figure out where he is.  If nothing else, we're covering a lot more than JK would, in less time, so I'm not worried about taking this year to make our way through these things.  Though, I think I might print out two lessons of the logic and if it is that easy for him, we can do two.  Since the lessons seem to break up by twos, it shouldn't be a big deal.  I suppose we'll see!