Smrt Lernins

Despite the Tank not being back in preschool yet (back on Wednesday), me having to take Babypie to the dermatologist (all’s well!), and this being Captain Science’s very first day after winter break and on the new schedule, I think things went swimmingly.

Captain Science and I got up at 8:00am. He grumbled a little at this, as I previously allowed him to wake naturally, which lead to a pretty wide variance in start times. Still, he got up, did his arm exercises, got dressed, and ate his breakfast quickly and with little fuss, and sat right down to get started on his math before I had to leave with Babypie.

Officer Daddyman called me at one point to verify the timing of snack and lunch, as our snack break is 10-10:30 and lunch is from 11:30-12, and there’s not another snack listed on the schedule (he’ll have one w/ his school reading or during any of the other free times). What he doesn’t realize is that if Captain Science doesn’t get frequent, small breaks for movement and a little food, he can’t concentrate worth a hooey. An hour to an hour and a half on, 15-30 minutes off seems to be the magical combination for maximum output.

Math was a bridge (between chapters 10 and 11), grammar was an Editor in Chief A1 exercise, and history was on Roman technology. He went over the time limit on all three, but was able to complete the work within the time allotted for catch-up work and corrections. I think that as he adjusts to the new schedule, and after we do a little desk rearranging to help speed things up, that he won’t have trouble finishing everything.

It felt great to be back to school today. I’m not looking forward to the Tank’s return to preschool, though, and am now leaning even more strongly towards not re-enrolling him next year, in favor of putting him in the Master’s Academy arts program. If he’s going to be in a religious setting, I think he’d benefit more from it being arts-based (which I can’t really give him) than “academics”-based (which I can).

Have everyone else started back to school?