No one really knows, as reports are sketchy. I have attempted a diagram to explain their answers.
Yesterday, we brought home this very handsome, if hairy, three-year-old boy:
Right now, he’s going by the name Apache, because that’s the rescuers called him, but Tank and Daddyman both like “Badge” as an alternative. Any other suggestions for the happy-go-lucky McLernins beagle boy?
Just look at that sweetness:
We rescued Apache through Dogs on Death Row. If you’re looking for a new pet, please, please consider adopting a rescue animal. Apache had been fully vetted and he’s great with kids. As an adult dog, he isn’t giving us any of that high-need puppy trouble, but because he’s spent time with people, he’s eager to love and please. Walking him is a little like walking a small, furry steam engine, but he has deposited all poops and pees in the appropriate outdoor venue and he is tolerant of Babypie’s alternated aggressive love and attempts at force-feeding blueberries. He’s currently protecting our stairs with his sleeping body. Good boy.
This has been a great week for working on projects and getting things done.
Our Life of Fred: Beginning Algebra and Home Companion books finally arrived. Captain Science completed lessons 1-3 in Home Companion. He also had his first Math Olympiad team meeting last night. I’m not exactly sure what he worked on or how well he did, but he enjoyed it, and enjoying math is a goal that all parents should want their parents to achieve! We’ll go weekly on Thursday, 6:30-7:30, which makes Thursdays a busy day for us!
Captain Science is still working on his Pantheon Project, writing the blurbs for the cards. We’re waiting on our next MCT curriculum to get here, so this is a good opportunity for him to focus on a little writing. He’s completed the work on the Greek pantheon cards and will go ahead and do the Roman pantheon next. Speaking of Rome, he also finished all the flash cards for Cesar’s English I, which we should have been doing this whole time, I realize now. It really cements the words in his memory. We’ll continue with the flash cards for the remainder of the book and with Cesar’s English II.
Computer programming began this week, too. It was mainly vocabulary and history of computers, but a nice foundation on which to build. We’ll be setting aside a two hour block every Thursday for Captain S to work on it. The final project of this semester is to program a game of Pong!
We’re finished the first unit in our PLATO Earth Science course. Captain Science passed the skill mastery test with 96%. He started the second unit today. We’re working on science four days a week, M/T/W/F.
Captain Science has almost finished reading The Secret Garden. It’s a nice change of pace from Where the Red Fern Grows, what with no dogs dying. He was excited to recognize one of the sentences from the first chapter, which has been used in Cesar’s English I as an example sentence! So far, not a peep of argument about the assigned reading, though. I think we’ll start The Black Stallion next week.
Tank got two new giant workbooks from Nana, who picked them up at Costco. He happily worked on them Monday through Wednesday, then declared yesterday that he was too tired to work on anything but drawing (which he did, quietly, in his room) and flat out refused to do anything but watch Go, Diego, Go with our brand new DOG!!!!! this morning. Last week, Tank and I discussed that if he were going to school at his old preschool, he’d only be going four days a week anyway, so anything he does on Fridays schoolwork-wise is lagniappe, anyway. On Monday, I think we’re going to do some more time-telling work, since he’s enjoying that and has grasped the concept of the small hand telling the hour.
