I was going to spread bark dust in the garden last night after work, but I sprained my ankle pretty bad walking to Safeway to eat lunch, so I was a little bit hobbled up. Instead, I took the time to work on Christian’s first day homeschool schedule. It came out pretty good. I have loaded both of the kids up with what I believe is a good amount of work, but I am sure I will have to adjust it some as we go along. I have added two new materials this year, neither of which I believe is particularly onerous. The new Spanish part of the program will be the most challenging of the two. The other one is just fun. It is a drawing program that looks absolutely fabulous. I am hoping Lorena will sit down and do it with the kids right after lunch each day. While I have added a couple of things, I have backed off on a couple of things, too. In particular, we will not be going nearly as fast in math this year as both Kelly and Christian are well ahead of their grade levels. We will probably go at a rate of a less than a year and a half of the Singapore Math program per actual school year, while during the 2004-2005 school year we did almost two full years of the program so we could catch up to a decent level after the abysmal three years in the government school programs.
I stopped in at Radio Shack today at lunch time and found that Lorena and I were eligible for a new cell phone if we signed up for an additional couple of years of service with our cell phone service. I got a new phone for each of us. They are really nice Samsung, color LCD phones. They have been very useful over the last couple of years.
I am reminded that Kelly and (possibly) Christian will be competing in the annual talent show down at the Albany Public Library this afternoon. Kelly won last year so she has high hopes for a repeat this year even though she won’t admit it.