Saturday, October 7, 2023

Mama said Chase played with his VR in the morning on Saturday. Nanaw came over to Chase's house in the afternoon to visit him after she got home from the little house. They studied for Tuesday's noun test in English. Nanaw had him name common, proper, singular, plural, concrete, abstract, possessive and collective nouns. They studied the other half of his study guide. Nanaw didn't bring the list of homework but Chase told her he had a history assignment to do. They can work on the rest of his book response project on Sunday and Monday, plus going over noun information again (including some new information Nanaw got from ChapGPT), and his history assignment. In the evening, Chase had a hockey game, and his team won 13 to 0. So far, they hadn't lost a game; they had tied one of them. After studying, Chase and Nanaw played hockey with the guys on Chase's bed. Chase now has two text groups: one with his baseball team and one with his hockey team. On Friday night, Chase's baseball team was declared the champions of their league, and Chase got a medal like his teammates even those he missed some of their final games because of his broken wrist. 

Friday, October 6, 2023

Chase had the day off on Friday because the teachers were having special meetings. He actually has a four-day weekend because Monday is Columbus Day. Chase came over to Nanaw's house for the day. They were supposed to go for a walk in the morning but it was too chilly. After lunch, they went fishing at Nanaw's lake. Things didn't go too well. At first, things were working. Nanaw put the red ball bait she bought at Walmart on Chase's rod. He managed to make a couple of good casts but then his line broke. The other fishing rod got its line all twisted up. Nanaw got that one fixed but the other one had a problem with the line. So Nanaw will have to ask either Daddy or Uncle Mike to fix them. In the afternoon Chase worked on his homework. He has to do a book report that's due October 19, the day before his class goes to Memphis. He chose the option that's called a book response. Out of a list of 10 items he has to choose five to do. So far, he's worked on: an acrostic; a word cloud using 15 adjectives to describe one of the main characters; and a to-do list with 10 items on it for another main character. He has two more to do. In the evening, Mama, Daddy and Chase went to the last game of his baseball team.

Thursday, October 5, 2023

Chase didn't wear his contacts today. Mama and Nanaw will need to make sure he wears them when he has sports or a few times a week. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school on Thursday, he didn't want to talk about the homework list and whether he had everything. He wanted to go right to the car because he said he had something to tell Nanaw. She was worried about what it might be. He told her that his two main teachers had told the classes that they shouldn't have anyone help them with their homework. They can have people help them study for tests, and they can have people explain things they don't understand or don't know how to do. He had forgotten his English study guide about nouns for the test next Tuesday, so Nanaw drove around to the front entrance, and Chase went in to get the study guide. At Nanaw's house, Chase showed her what he's going to do for his book report assignment. He has the day off tomorrow, and he says they're going to work on the book report and maybe other homework.

 

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

On Wednesday morning, Chase put in his contacts easily and quickly. Yay! He has hockey practice in Fenton this afternoon at 4:30 so Nanaw has to have him home by 4. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, he said he had math for her to check. They also had to study for tomorrow's vocabulary quiz and the Daily Literature Review (DLR) weekly quiz. Amazingly enough, they pretty much got everything done. Chase had all the right answers on his math. He had the use of its and it's incorrect in the DLR worksheet, so Nanaw explained the difference. Nanaw had him do the hard way of studying for vocabulary, where she says the word and he has to give the definition. In the evening, Cole's mom texted Nanaw about the vocabulary quiz. Cole is in the other class, and it seems like they turned in the things they needed to study for tomorrow's quiz. Cole's mom asked Mama to send her pictures of the vocabulary pages so Mama did that. After hockey practice, Chase did his AR reading and then played with his VR Quest virtual reality. Nanaw went to Waterloo Walmart and bought a Rummikub game. Maybe they can have Family Game Night on Sunday and play it.

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Chase still didn't wear his contacts to school today; it's been a couple of weeks since he's worn them. Nanaw suggested that he put them in tomorrow morning so that he doesn't forget how to do it. When Nanaw picked Chase up, they talked about what homework he had. The main thing is the vocabulary. He has pages in the workbook to finish that are due Thursday; he also has a quiz on Thursday. He finished the pages in the vocabulary workbook and then he and Nanaw studied the vocabulary words for a long time. The quiz on Thursday is going to cover two chapters instead of just one. He doesn't have any practices or games or anything else tonight so Mama will go over the vocabulary with him again. He won't be able to study much with Nanaw tomorrow after school because he has to be home at 4 p.m. to go to hockey practice. Nanaw was going to go to Waterloo Walmart to try to find a Rummikub game (Telegraph Road Walmart didn't have one) after she dropped Chase off but Uncle Mike came over to cut the grass, and she wanted to visit with him so she's going tomorrow afternoon. Uncle Mike told Nanaw that cousin Robbie bought a house in Florissant, and Aunt Karen was his real estate agent. Uncle Mike showed Nanaw the listing pictures online, and it's a darling little house. Nanaw is so happy for cousin Robbie, and she texted him telling him that. She also texted Aunt Karen thanking her for helping cousin Robbie.

Monday, October 2, 2023

A funny thing happened Monday morning. When Mama packed Chase's clothes for school, she packed one school shoe and one Croc. So on their way to school, Chase and Nanaw stopped by Chase's house to get his other school shoe. Chase was afraid he would be late to school but he actually got there earlier than usual. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, he told her about all his homework He had quite a bit of homework to do. His vocabulary assignment and quiz are due Thursday. He did several pages of the vocabulary work, and Nanaw checked it over. He did well on the vocabulary words. He had a history worksheet to go through. Nanaw read through it and figured out the answers while Chase was doing vocabulary. Chase also had math problems and an English worksheet that he wanted Nanaw to check. He got all the math problems correct and the English worksheet was correct too. He has a book report due October 19, and he chose The Unteachables, the book he just read for AR. He says he has a rubric for the book report. Nanaw learned about rubrics from last year's classes and thinks they're a great idea. A rubric is a guide for a project, report or paper. It explains what is expected and how many points each part of the project, report or paper is worth. 

 

Sunday, October 1, 2023

Because Nanaw had a busy day on Sunday, she came to visit Chase on Sunday morning after his hockey game. Theytied the game so now their record is three wins and one tie. This isn't the season yet. This is the series of games that are meant to determine what level each team belongs in. Daddy said Chase played really well again, and Nanaw is so proud. When Nanaw got there, Chase went to his room and got his Chromebook out of his backpack. He had an English IXL assignment that's due Tuesday. It was all about plagiarism: how to recognize it and how to avoid it. For some of the answers, Chase kept clicking submit before Nanaw had a chance to give him advice. So eventually she got him to stop doing that and to wait to click submit until they had a chance to talk about it. The questions were fairly hard but Chase seemed to be doing well answering them. In the evening, Mama texted Nanaw about what the assignment was because Brady and Hunter's moms said it was difficult and took a long time. Also in the evening, Nanaw went to Sherry's house for Uncle Doug's 80th birthday dinner. While she was there, Sherry took a picture of her with Miles, and Nanaw took a picture of Shelby. Nanaw sent the pictures to Mama because Mama loves dogs so much.