Today's prompt is "What inventions can you not live without?" The internet, the iphone, the laptop, and the dvr.
So, I can not fall asleep. Caleb fell asleep beside me on the bed tonight. It is only 9:42 p.m. here now. I went to bed early. My eyes were sore and tired. Today we had a day. It was Caleb's first day of home school. I woke him up at about 8:30. I gave him his medications rights away. He was already in a pissy mood. I made him grilled cheese sandwiches for breakfast, and we started the school day at 9:15 a.m. At roughly 9:35 a.m. we completed the de Mello School Code of Conduct we created. We then worked on creating Yoga Pose Cards from the printouts his occupational therapist made us. I issued Caleb his school supplies at around 10:05 a.m. I introduced to him the idea of a daily journal after that. He needed a break at around 10:12 a.m. and restarted on his daily journal at 10:25 a.m. I started cleaning the living room at about 11:00 a.m., and at 11:35 a.m. we took some down time. We left for Caleb's therapy appointment at 11:55 a.m. We did not come back home until about 2:30 p.m. We had not had lunch, so it was lunch time then. I gave Caleb his afternoon medications, and the day school day ended at 3:00 p.m.
Sounds pretty straight forward but it was anything but. I struggled with Caleb all morning. The hardest part was getting him to write in his journal. I asked him to write a page about himself. He wrote one sentence. He had all these excuses why he couldn't write a whole page. I wrote down some questions to help him out. He said they were "creepy questions." I wanted to know how old he was, where he was born, who does he live with, where does he live... etc. Not creepy. He was angry and wanted to argue. I did not go to his level. I stayed calm and tried to talk it out with him. It was very frustrating. It was a very rocky morning. I told his therapist about everything when he went to see her. I asked that she help him work through whatever is causing him problems. He said they were able to work through his problems when he came out.
I am proud of myself for not having given up. Caleb was really trying to get out of doing any work. I kept on him until he did it. He argued that he should go to school, that I am not a teacher. He really wanted to move on to what I had planned for science, but I would not let him until he finished his journal entry. I told him he is not going to waste my time. He is going to work. If we have to make up for time lost due to stubbornness and anger and stay up late to finish work then so be it. He is going to learn. He got away with too much in public school.
I am hoping for a better day 2. I have my Wounded Warrior Project class online and I also have the Veterans Path class online tomorrow. So, we will have to work around them. We got the iPad my cousin, Mariel, sent. I was hoping we could use it for the Adventure Academy learning game, but it doesn't work on the iPad Air. Sucks. Oh well. We are still using it for education purposes.
I don't know what we are going to do tomorrow yet. I know we are going to work on the Yoga Pose cards again, we are going to do the daily journal, and we might get to the science notebook. I need to find the handwriting workbook that he had from last year. He needs to work on his handwriting. We are also going to clean the living room a little more.
I finally got my ejuice in the mail today. Damn. That took forever!
I called Mathew up and sang "Happy Birthday" to him.
My mom called me while I was on my way to Caleb's appointment. I guess she didn't realize that I was home schooling Caleb this year and not doing the school distance learning. I explained to her some of my logic behind the choice. I also let her know how the day was going.
Mathew didn't get my envelope today. I hope he gets it tomorrow.
Overall, we had a good day.
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