We're amping up S's learning. I was taking a more relaxed approach with her (here's your assignments, do them in such and such amount of time and give them back to me) but decided today that she needs a more rigorous type of teaching from me... Or maybe I should call it more teacher involved. Anyway, I've decided to give her little question sheets that she will answer after her readings. I haven't used the ugly "test" word with her and so she's not that aggravated about it. I think that she was actually longing for a little more interaction when it came to her schooling but she didn't know how to tell me. So, I'll be more active in her lessons from now on. Some, like math, she'll still be doing primarily out of books but others I can help her with.

S decided to change her foreign language to Spanish. She was struggling through her French lesson today (the thing that tipped me off to the fact that she needs more teacher interaction, usually she would go to another room to do her French and thus I didn't realize that she was having such trouble/so far behind. That won't happen anymore) and I kept trying to help her pronounce the nasal quality of the language. She wasn't getting it and kept attributing it to the fact that she'd taken Spanish as a child. Finally I asked her whether she would rather take Spanish. She was a little hesitant at first but then I told her that we could add French back in later if she so chose (after she's got a big base in Spanish, of course) and she decided to switch to Spanish. I think that that's a good decision for her. She will have many more opportunities to use Spanish in real life and also I can help her more with Spanish than I can with French (my two years of high school French wouldn't have been any help to her in a couple months more of learning). I think that part of the reason she wanted to take French over Spanish is because a)I did and b)she'd romanticized the language. She can still pick it back up later but I'm actually glad that she decided on Spanish, she seems to have more of an aptitude for it.

I've got an absolute TON of extra planning that I need to do now which also equates into a ton of printing that needs to be done. Its going to be crazy around here for the next couple days while I try to get everything back on track. Thank goodness for weekends...

Ok, this is totally OT but I just had to add this in. I read recently (can't remember where) that saying "Thank goodness" is unChristian. I don't see it that way. The whole reason I say "goodness" as opposed to "God" is because I'm Christian. I don't want to take His name in vain (e.g. use it in such a casual way). Ok, enough of that, back to homeschooling...

I've decided against "Agamemnon" for her reading this week (and next). I opened the book today to write some questions about it and I saw that the whole thing was in some sort of script (didn't take the time to find out which language) and the English part was just commentary, not direct translation. Since I don't want to have to search out a version that is translation instead and adding the fact that I never strongly wanted her to read the book anyway (it was on the WTM reading list so I added it to the curriculum) I've taken it out of the list and instead she's reading "The Histories".

We have like a million books from the library. I had been using a system where S was working out of at least 3 books per subject at a time. Well, in order to get some of these books moving out of here and back to the library where they belong I've decided to narrow it down to 1 (2 at the most) book at a time for each subject so she can get through them quicker.

Well I've got to get back to planning, I'll update with her schedule for today later.