Homesat Day Four

Day Four,
Wow! What a day.  We started the day out with Bible - and it went fairly well... Moriah happily read her assignment: Psalm 118:1-3. She and I did the worksheet that was for yesterday. We also sang the first stanza again. We moved from their to math - Moriah's choice... and we watched the video and stopped it for her to work each of the word problems.  She did great until her father walked in the room - then she suddenly "forgot" how to create subtraction word problems, started pouting, and I had to send her to her room to cool off.  When she came back, her father was back upstairs at work, and the drama was over. She finished her math sheet and one extra - She new to have her Captain's log when the video started.  We did extra work on place value and expanded form sine she seemed weak.  Moriah consistently missed the 11's addition/subtraction family.  But we are making progress, slowly.
Then we moved to Lesson 4 Reading video. That is where I discovered that Moriah uses "I don't understand/know/can't find/etc." to get the answers from me (or the video teacher.) When I confronted her with this, she told me, "Why should I do the work if someone else knows the answers?"  Sad - we will be working on this attitude this year, I am positive.
Moriah refused to do handwriting - said she would do 2 lessons tomorrow. I do want her to start owning her education, so I allowed this, but I will HAVE to hold her feet to the fire tomorrow if we are going to complete the year.
Finally, we moved on to Spelling - we did Day 3 work and the pretest - she missed the capitalization rule for books of the Bible as well as for Bible, and she accused me of making up that rule. I reminded her that tomorrow she would need to remember this rule, or she would be marked wrong... We opted not to watch the video since we couldn't get it out of my computer... I have since recovered the DVD from my drive - a feat in of itself!
Moriah begged to play the game for Social Studies - we never got to that.  Oh well - another day, another dollar (lol.)