Today was good! We went to church. Riley and Madi learned about respect in their class. Riley said she absolutely loves the worship time and it's her favorite! Madi said she agreed. Glad they are loving it!
We came home and Madi started working on her English project for Language Arts. She has two projects. Both are considered extra credit, but highly advised to do them as they can help boost your grade. When she got them, she said she was going to do them. Definitely can't hurt! Then when it came to doing the work on Saturday morning (we've set aside a no computer, no ipod, no tv time until after lunch to leave time for chores and homework on sat/sun), I asked if she wanted to start on her project. She told me that she wasn't going to do them. I looked at her and said that she is given a chance to boost her grade, to demonstrate going above and beyond what they are doing in the classroom and to do a project that really won't take her very long and she wasn't going to do it? Both Jeremy and I gave her a lecture on working hard, doing your best and taking advantage of every opportunity to get the best grade and learn the most that she can. To not just skate by. We reminded her that she had made two goals for herself for this year:
1 - To get all A's
2 - To work hard and do her best on all projects.
We were frustrated as she was simply wanting to be lazy and didn't want to do work. Totally understand it is the first week of school. The project is due in four weeks so she has plenty of time. But her tendency is to wait last minute and then do lazy work that isn't up to par with what she could do if she applied herself. However, she can turn it in anytime and she has absolutely no homework taking up her time so it's the perfect opportunity to knock it out and do a little each weekend so it can be done well over time rather than waiting until the last minute. We didn't care if she worked for an hour or four or whatever. The point was that she should at least try and do it. We both told her she would be an idiot for not taking advantage of such an easy boost to her grade. And that it would be a good challenge for her and she'd learn new things. We told her she needed to push herself. That she has no limitations or needs that hold her back. She doesn't fight any learning disabilities and things come easy to her so she needs to challenge herself and go for it. And thankfully, she started it.
She chose to learn about Leonardo Da Vinci for the science project. She read on a website that he was involved in sodomy. Jeremy had the job of explaining that one - ha! Though Da Vinci is truly amazing in all that he has invented. Honestly never thought of him as more than a painter! I think she'll have a lot of fun with the project. The other one she has to make a poster board into a movie poster. She's reading one of the Maximum ride books and has to cast her characters with real life people and then create the movie poster. Should be another fun one too!
Tonight my parents came over and the girls had a fabulous time with them! Madi set up a store in the playroom and Riley set up a store. It was cute to see them selling items. Madi had it all figured out and had us signing papers as we paid with credit card. Riley sold everything for free.
Tomorrow we have off for Labor Day and there are no plans. A no-homework, no-project day as it is a holiday! Then we'll jump into a great week of school!! So far, it's been an awesome year!
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