just not a good day

Magnus sick in bed today, he made it to the math taks study hall, wrote two lines on his term paper and then went to sleep for 6 hours.

He had some water and milk and went to sleep for 4 hours. I gave him credit for an hour of p.e. last night, 1 hour of study island for the taks study hall, 1 hour of study island for the online place they sent us, and 1 hour for the writing lab that he worked on, and we did get 20 minutes of spelling at 10 pm, he missed his scouts lesson today on language and culture.

Dinner was tacos. I got him a bottler of ice water, and he is hitting the sack again, maybe tomorrow will be better.

Education Days

Making Ice Cream with salt, ice, and cream
Reading Stories
Volcano Explosions

How Healthy Am I?

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You have input the following:

Your sex is male
Your height is 55.0 in., or 139.7 cm.
Your weight is 62.0 lb., or 28.2 kg.
Your birthdate is 06/27/2001, so your age is 8 years 7 months.

Your Results

Your height is 92th percentile
Your weight is 59th percentile
Your Body Mass Index is 14.4, which is the 14th percentile

You are neither underweight nor overweight according to health experts*. Your weight is in the healthy range for your height and age.

The healthy weight range for your height and age is 60 to 79 pounds (27 to 36 kilograms). This range corresponds to a BMI between the 5th and 85th percentiles for your age and sex.

What does your kid do all day?

Dress Code:
His hair is past his shoulders.
His clothing: a clean cotton tshirt supporting the American cotton farmer and endorsing the physical exercise activity of surfing, Robert Pierre Young footless wool long underwear from Norway supporting the soft merino sheep industry.

Read about Norse Mythology in his classics for young readers;
complete a math lesson on measurements and time;
study and complete prep for Texas state reading achievement exams;
Renaissance art and medallions which are the basis for coins today;
Fencing on Wii sports resort.

Time investment in Charter school curriculum to date (18 weeks of school):
Math [60 hours]
Spelling [44 hours]
Literature [64.5 hours]
Language Skills [49 hours]
Social Studies [47.5 hours]
Texas Science [50.25 hours]
Art [34.25 hours]
Music/Foreign Language [18.5 hours]
State Exam Prep [30.5 hours]
P.E. [68 hours]
Health [22 hours]
TOTAL: 499 Hours over 90 days of instruction.
Average: 5.5 hours a day.

Healthy Site for the day: Kewl Bites

Were are we today?

SCHOOL OBJECTIVE:

A (95) - [>45%]
B (85) - [43-44%]
C (75) - [41-42%]
D (65) - [39-40%]
F (60) - [<38%]

Jan 9 - 45%

Math: 42%
Spelling: 42%
Literature: 40%
Language Skills: 38%
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Social Studies: 40%
Art: 38%
Music: 36%

Texas Science: 51%
P.E.: 47%
Strategies for Testing: 20%
Health: 47%

we have one week to make our 45-48% goal, which equals some extra lessons this week ;-) as per usual.

now Magnus still wants to continue his creative studies. I was talking today to another mom, our Norwegian studies:
Tuesday - Tyr or Tiw was the Norse god of war.
Wednesday - named for the Norse God, Odin. He was also known as Woden or Wotan
Thursday - Thor was the Norse God of Thunder
Friday - Norse God (in this case a goddess), Frigga. She was believed to be the wife of Odin and was the goddess of marriage and the hearth.

Kitchen HOMEWORK - AGAIN

Magnus's Your gonna burn in Hell Buns

Dough in bread machine:(10 minutes to assemble)
1 3/4 cup water
2 tsp salt
3 tbl honey
420 grams of white flour
100 grams of quick oats
80 grams of gluten
2 tsp yeast
dough setting, let rise in machine (2 hours machine time + 1 hour to rise)

Butterscotch
* 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
* 1 cup of tightly packed dark brown sugar
* ¾ cup heavy whipping cream (not ultra-pasteurized)
* 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
* 1 teaspoon kosher salt

1 First, before you begin, make sure you have everything ready to go - the cream and the brown sugar next to the pan, measured and waiting. Making butterscotch is a fast process that cannot wait for hunting around for ingredients.

2 In a heavy bottomed stainless steel 2 quart saucepan, melt butter over low to medium heat. Just before butter is melted, add all dark brown sugar at once and stir with wooden spoon until sugar is uniformly wet.

3 Stir infrequently until mixture goes from looking grainy to molten lava. Make sure to get into the corners of your pot, and watch closely to notice how the mixture changes. It will take about 3 to 5 minutes.

4 Right before you add the cream, the caramelizing brown sugar will begin to look and feel more like liquid and less like thick wet sand.

5 At this point add all the cream at once and replace your spoon with a whisk. Lower heat a little and whisk cream into mixture. When liquid is uniform, turn heat back to medium and whisk every few minutes for a total of 10 minutes.

6 After liquid has been boiling on the stove for its 10 minutes, turn heat off and let rest for a minute or two before transferring into a heatproof storage vessel. (I prefer a stainless steel or glass bowl.) Cool to room temperature.

7 When butterscotch liquid is room temperature, take a small taste. Whisk in the salt and vanilla extract. (1/2 hour to make)ARE YOU READY?

on counter assemble:

1 stick of butter, room temperature
lots of cinnamon
lots of sugar
shredded coconut
chopped pecans
butterscotch

flour your board, gingerly spread out your dough with fingers, roll it out in a big rectangle about 12x18 inches, smear butter evenly over entire dough surface, drizzle butterscotch over entire surface, sprinkle with lots of nuts, some coconut, and some sugar and a whole bunch of cinnamon.
gingerly roll up so it is wide not fat. cut in half with thread, (slide thread under and crisscross) cut each section in half again (4 equal parts) and then cut in half again (8) and then in thirds. should get exactly 24 rolls.
spray your 12" round wilton cake pan and place the ends upside down, so that the pointy part is on the bottom and the swirly part is on top, place each one finger apart in a circle until pan is full, put near pre-heating oven, but NOT TOO CLOSE (we used the microwave above the oven and then put a dishtowel over the rolls and draped it down so that the heat from the oven exhaust went up into the 'proofing box' and let rise (about 1 hour)
bake at 350 for 30 minutes or so (assemble time: 15 minutes)

What Do you Know?

Weather statistics from Bergen

Last 30 days: Average temperature was -1.3 °C, 3.4 °C below the normal. Highest temperature was 10.4 °C (08 December), and the lowest was -11.3 °C (06 January). The total precipitation was 66.6 mm. Highest daily precipitation was 19.5 mm (27 December) (measured between 07 -07). Highest wind speed was 13.8 m/s (20 December).

Temperature

Precipitation

Wind

Average

Normal

Warmest

Coldest

Total

Normal

Highest daily value

Average

Strongest wind

Dec 2009

1.3°C

2.4°C

12.0°C

12/06/10

-9.2°C

12/31/10

71 mm

235 mm

20 mm

12/27/10

3.2 m/s

13.8 m/s

12/20/10