Good Morning Bacon and Let's Not Burn the House Down.

This morning Nick wanted his home economics learning to be how to cook bacon and eggs on our gas stove.  Okay not a problem as I knew he'd not cooked bacon before, but I was puzzled by the request of cooking the eggs until he explained that this would be his first time on our gas stove and he was only used to an electric stove and electric skillet.  With it being a rather good point he was making, we sat out to do so.

He did rather well with the experience but the main thing with him we decided was learning that not only does grease pop when cooking bacon, but it's also important to realize you don't need the fire up so high, as that in itself can be dangerous.  And then we quickly did a quick lesson on fire safety and kitchen safety.  He took it all in like a sponge and asked good questions in respect to the why's of things.  And then said he'd like to own his own restaurant someday as he really enjoys cooking etc and his next home ec class he's asked if he can learn to make macaroni and cheese.  So that's really cool...And I also know that once summer sets in he'll want to learn how to cook on the grill too.  I can already see that coming, guess we'll be learning then of outdoor fire safety at that time.

So this morning was bacon, eggs, toast, and fire safety for home ec class.

I know it doesn't seem like we're doing lots but with Nick it's actually his 3rd class for the day as he takes his Science, Language and sometimes Reading books with him to bed the night before and does the next days' assignments as homework so he's already done when he gets up with at least 2 classes.  And JJ has workbook sheets he's doing today and Annie has her workbooks she'll be doing ready for this evening when her daddy gets home...shes' been working with him the past couple evenings.

Matthew is hiding I think as he's reached a critical point with his Algebra where he's bombed an assignment and he now "hates" it as he put it....not to mention he thinks the instructor on the DVD series that came with the Saxon Algebra is boring...what is it with the kids and boring...seems like we've heard that phrase tossed out already this week and the weeks not even over.  Got to track Matthew down.

So now we're into the afternoon and here I am waiting for Eric to pop in for our afternoon history class, which today's assignment is on The Invention of the Printing Press and Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation....should be interesting on one scale that if the printing press wasn't invented the Bible wouldn't have found it's way into many hands...in fact this is the most important invention ever in the history of the world and it played a part in furthering the production of the most important book in the world.  Come to think of it this history class can also be counted for bible class as well.  I like it when our subjects link up.

English is fun, we've entered in the upper grades Pre-Writing and Narratives, now mind you only Nick is into writing the way that I am, Matthew would prefer to draw pictures but when pushed he can tell a good tale orally, the hard part is getting him to put words from mouth to pen to paper, and Eric, oh heaven help us as he's just into reading really and not much of anything else, in fact I worry it might be the one part of his class that he bombs.  But, I guess not every child fancies the same subjects or even learning itself.

Guess we'll just see what happens .....But Eric does fancy one thing, and that's grossing others out, his latest is drinking Barbecue Sauce straight out of the jar....yep straight.

His poor tastebuds!!!!!