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[ohginnyfan]

I am, at the very least, a bit more cheerful today than I was yesterday.  Joshua brought home papers yesterday, and they were all "decent".  One C -- the rest were A's and B's.  That was a good thing.  Both boys had a bunch of homework yesterday -- Josh had more than Matt, primarily because Josh has a band meeting tonight, plus choir, so he won't have time to complete anything due on Friday.  He has to turn in a rough draft of his Amphibian report on Friday to be checked, and he hadn't started it as of yesterday (he had the research, just nothing written).  Yeah...he didn't budget very well (report was assigned two weeks ago).

Matt is doing remarkably well with most of his assignments.  He has a ton of work to do, but he can do most on his own, with very little help.  The one subject he's having issues in is Social Studies and it has to do with Maps and Map reading.  He can't get the N-S-E-W concept down.  And we've been also working on Latitude/Longitude Northern/Southern hemisphere and Eastern/Western Hemisphere.  The last about threw me for a complete loop.  I'm looking at this map thinking, "huh? I don't remember this."  I'm going to try to find some map activities on the 'net and have his tutor work with him on it.  He has everything completely backwards.

On a good note, he did really well practicing his spelling words (usually a dreadful subject for him), and he did really well studying for his vocabulary test.  Last week, Joshua aced his spelling pretest, so he didn't have to take the final test.  He has his pretest today, and we are hoping he aces this one, so he doesn't have to take the final on Friday.  He is a really good speller, so I would imagine he'll take very few final tests this year for spelling.

Today is the start of the school choir.  I have two in it this year.  Matt has decided to join, too. It meets an hour after school on Thursdays. Band starts in fifth grade, so Josh wants to join.  He and Mike will be going to the band meeting tonight and finding out the details.

I've got my hpgw_otp  number challenge written and back from aggiebell90. I hope to get it ready to post either today or tomorrow.  I did two of them, and may just go ahead and post both (I had only one number).  I hope to work on a couple other stories I've got brewing.

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Re: Shredded Wheat

[brother-art.livejournal.com]

Every heard of car rallies? You're given these instructions, like drive east for 20 telephone poles, then turn left, go precisely 6 mailboxes... etc etc.

Orienteering is sort of like that. You're put at a known starting point. Given a compass, a set of instructions, and a sheet to fill in. When you start you're given a direction, something like this... go ESE for 200 paces. Look for a oak tree beside a barbed wire fence. Once you get to it, there should be a marker or something to verify that you've found the right point. There will be a number, or symbol on the marker that you copy down on your sheet, to prove that you were there. Then you go to the next set of instructions: "no NNe for 300 paces, look for a Red rock beside a stream".... and so on. It's been SO long, I hope I'm remembering this correctly.

I would expect that boy scouts or any boys club still does something like this on their camp out trips. I should try googling "orienteering" some time.

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