Again, today we didn't do anything radically different, but it was still a much smoother day. The biggest difference is that I played a lot of it by ear, and I think when I do that I'm automatically more in tune with what's going on with the kids and what they're open for.

1. Meditation/Journal
2. Stormy looked up a current event article to share (she read about Mozart's recent 250th birthday) while Nicky read Dick and Jane to me for ten minutes. Khy had used a sleeping-in coupon, so he was just eating breakfast at the time.
3. Math review - each kid got one difficult math problem to work out on the dry erase board.
4. Wright Tasks - Today Stormy did a task that involved brainstorming ten different wild and creative jobs that a kid could do for money (since the Wright Brothers were young entrepreneurs) and Khy chose a geography task - looking up the capitals and finding on a map all the states and countries that the Wright Brother's visited. I let them do their work on Wordpad and then taught them how to save the files, make them email attachments and send them to me so that I could print them out from my computer, so we got a little computer lesson in as well.
5. Meanwhile, I had drawn specific shapes on construction paper for Nicky to cut out. We reviewed what the different shapes were called, and when he was done, he used the shapes to make a picture of an airplane flying in the sky.
6. Spelling Bingo - Stormy won.
7. Snack break while everyone did a drawing sheet.
8. 30 minutes of the Ender's Game audiobook by Orson Scott Card.

1. Meditation/Journals
2. Read My Brother's Flying Machine - Wilbur, Orville and Me by Jane Yolen
3. Stormy and Khy worked on Wright Brothers Tasks. Khy chose a math lesson, answering questions based on information gathered about the Wright brothers, like how long it was between their first and second flights, which brother was taller and which one weighed more, etc. Stormy chose an art lesson, looking up flags from the Weather Bureau on the internet, and then making three of them out of construction paper.
4. All three completed drawing worksheets.
5. Khy and I helped Nicky and Stormy prepare for tomorrow's belt tests by quizzing them on Korean terminology, helping them practice endurance (30 seconds on a punching bag for Nicky, 90 seconds for Stormy), forms, kicks, and Stormy's self defense move.

Activities:
1. Introduced the Aviation and Wright Brothers unit.
2. A "math treasure hunt" (from here) that involved the kids looking up clues about the Wright Brothers along the way.
3. Discussed Wright Tasks, a file folder of projects that the kids will choose from and complete during the course of the unit. There are Math, Geography, Writing, Speeches, Art and Health centered activities, but all of them relate in some way to the Wright Brothers. (This is an idea I found on the internet - somewhere - and built on it.)
4. Reviewed the scientific process.
5. Watched Eyewitness Flight, checked out from the library.
6. Did 3 experiments to prove that air is fluid and takes up space, and one experiment to prove that it has weight. (All from here: pdf file
7. Students filled out lab sheets for one of the experiments we did today.
8. Completed a beginning drawing worksheet.
9. Spelling Bingo. (Stormy won.)

While at times today was hectic, overall it went better than I had expected. The experiments were fun, the kids were sharp and connected with it all, and there wasn't even too much grumbling at the increase in writing.