I missed posting last night as I was up til 1am finishing off lesson plans.
I like to joke about how it's taken me three days to write the lesson plans. Most of the time taken was actually refining a few things with my Obsidian lesson plan templates once I actually started using them, and then having to work out a format for my notebook when I transcribed them.
the notebook is partly an excuse to buy cute notebooks and mostly because I'm intending on taking it home over the weekend to transcribe the week's lesson plans and leaving it there during the week in the unlikely event that I can't make it or am running late, then whoever is subbing can just grab the notebook out of the cupboard and use the lesson plan
I think I'm going to have to put the drills and their equipment requirements in a table to save space but that's more formatting issues that's getting kicked down the road to deal with next week.
Meanwhile it turns out that my first session assistant (I have two of them, one for each session, aaaaahhhhhhh) and I work great together (we switched up nicely and managed to not talk over each other by accident, and still have a few rough patches to work out with the system we're developing but we'll get there) so that was awesome.
All I managed to do project wise was realise that the curve hair down looked awful and started the agonising layering of polygon down.
I did play around with the array modifier first and maybe it is probably actually quicker but the amount it was doing my head in affected my perception of time and it felt like it was taking about the same amount of time to just duplicate move them myself (though in reality I'm pretty sure it wasn't anywhere near the same amount of time).
It's not looking too awful, I'm just really not enjoying this, it's very tedious. Hopefully the feather patterning will be more fun.
I'm likely to lag a bit with project stuff and hive stuff over the next couple of weeks as I try to figure out new rhythms with work and things, hopefully not to the extent that I have to miss progblogs due to lack of prog.
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Sitting down with my son to do homework is a right pain in the arse. I am so impressed that you have taken the teaching on by yourselves. Fintan is actually doing quite well in school according to his teacher. His maths is excellent but his writing has a certain dyslexia about it. He is always writing certain letters backwards. I had the same when I was young and am now trying to teach him the techniques I used to overcome it.
I always feel more comfortable teaching him lives lesson rather than text book stuff.
I was only able to sit down and do the book thing with the kids when they were about Fintan's age (or at least what I remember his age as being, I'm probably slightly off now XD). After that the tears and tantrums happened and everyone was miserable and eventually I adjusted and based everything around experience (so a lot of excursions and stuff).
And I think for the most part regardless of what type of learner you are, you get more out of it if it's both presented in a way that your brain is best wired for and if you're actually interested/find it relevant, so it's not that surprising that you find live lessons easier than textbook stuff if both of you are slightly dyslexic (does he also have trouble reading or is it more dysgraphia?) and he loves the active stuff.
The lesson planning I'm doing at the moment is for gymnastics and it's a lot more detailed than I'm used to doing as with gymnastics there's set stuff that they need to have by the middle of the year when badge tests are on. With my kids for homeschooling I tend to just have a vague idea of what kind of excursions I want to take them on and then try and get that done, and then remember to take photos and do hs misc in a timely fashion x_x
His reading is coming along nicely but still a bit word by word. I had to look up dysgraphia and don't think that really describes it, he just has a tendency to write letters and numbers backwards, but not all. I had the same and even to this day, still do. (Thank goodness for spillcheck) Ds and Bs are the biggest culprits and every time I need to write one I need to think about the word bed, which looks like a bed and if it is a b or d sound I know it points to the centre of the bed.(honestly, this goes through my head every time)
I am not too worried about him as he really loved books and so he will find his own ways to crack the code.
It doesn't matter if the reading is slow as long as it and the comprehension are there. Sounds like he'll be just fine :)
I think my boys wrote letters and numbers backwards frequently (b, d, p, q being the worst offenders) til 8 or 9 and youngest still does it occasionally because he doesn't write with a pen that often (in fact actively resists doing so) but he does notice (eventually).
Forgot to say I can relate somewhat, I have dyscalculia, reading numbers is constantly a problem (writing them not so much) and processing them...well it just takes a ridiculously long time even for really basic things xD
Is that Visual Studio code that you are using for your notes?
Nothing that exciting, it's just Obsidian XD (which I use for pretty much all my notes now) They're all .md files.
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