Day Two with BJU

So, Today was day two and it took a different turn. Because we had started slowly yesterday, we had a lot  to finish: Reading, Spelling, Bible, Science and History - today, we started the reading, spelling, and completed Bible, and we also did one of the review sheets from the newer math series. So we started with completing the Bible - we reviewed the words, omnipotent, omniscience, and omnipresent, then reviewed the story of Moses' encounter with the burning bush, and then worked on the first stanza of "I Sing he Mighty Power of God"... Moriah happily read the verses she was to read and seemed to enjoy Bible.


Then we did the Reading - Moriah did not like reading out loud, but Moriah clearly has comprehension questions (her reasoning seems faulty) and so for a while we are going to be reading out loud. made it clear that she does not like reading, but she did do extra silent reading for the reading unit challenge, but she feels that she will never win. Since I didn't have the Mom's Minutes, we couldn't make the bookmark or set up the reading challenge.

Moriah disliked the Spelling 4 DVDs - she thought the jester was "stupid" (her words.) But she made a spelling journal and happily di the first pretest. Moriah was unaware that she needed to capitalize books of the Bible, and she couldn't spell Leviticus - but hey, at her age I couldn't either. Moriah wanted to know if she was going to have to take tests every day... hum....

She completed the extra practice for math and I discovered that she did not know about Addition Families, i.e., 5,6,and 11 make four equations: 5+6=11, 6+5=11, 11-5=6, and 11-6=5. I explained it, but I do not necessarily think that Moriah fully understood what I explained.  At this point, Moriah was totally fed up with homeschool.

We also walked 1.75 miles today. If we walk 30 minutes every day, then I don't see how I would need to add any other P.E.

We took a lunch break and I read "Indian Jamboree" out of Little House on the Prairie and we decided that she was done - mostly because Tom's Trust was blowing up my email and my phone. Tonight Moriah told her father that she didn't want to watch more videos tomorrow.  (Tough nuts, Princess - you wanted to homeschool.) But I am going to start praying earnestly that we can turn around that attitude.