What a busy school year!!!!

Well, gotta say. I haven't done well in keeping up with this at all. We have been so busy this year! I decided to get my degree in commercial photography, so with me being the teacher and the student, it's been incredibly busy!

This year in school is a bit different since there isn't a pre-k little guy coming in 3 days a week! We miss him and hope he has a GREAT kindergarten year!!!!!

Some similarities are that we still do drum lessons...we still do science labs once a week, and we still love the joy of learning all that we can!

We have added "Odyssey of the Mind" group and that should be fun! We've implemented "Field Trip Fridays" if we get the week's worth of work done Mon-Thurs....that's a pretty cool incentive.

Football and baseball are still big deals here and each season has gone or is going strong! I will try and do better with keeping up and keeping ya informed about what we're doing! Just bear with me on it!!! Thanks!

Wow...haven't been good at keeping up!

Well, it's been a good while since I updated. We started off 2009 with Camo breaking his arm (literally on Jan 1st) while snowboarding! He is doing well, after having to be put under a week later to break what had healed and get it re-set. He did get a short cast today, which was a relief to him!

Nonetheless, 

we haven't missed any school! He is re-reading "The 

Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" 

and also reading "The Magical Worlds of Narnia: A Treasury of Myths, Legends, and Fascinating Facts" to supplement the story. We have learned a lot about why certain things are written the way they are. Makes it very interesting!

 We also ordered Turkish Delight so we could completely understand what Edmund was eating from the White Witch. Some of it we liked, some was

 pretty nasty...but fun to learn what it is! (Note, one photo is Camo with the book, doing the workbook and sitting surrounded by boxes of Turkish Delight...other photo is of his first taste!)

We've also worked on prepositions, finding subjects and verbs of sentences and memorizing 40 of the most used prepositions, and locating prepositional phrases and the object of a preposition. (So exciting!)

In math, it's been finding circumference, radius, diameter...working on multiplying with 2 and 3 digit numbers...and also some probability. He is still not really a fan of math.

We did have one day of "fun" and took off for the day to the zoo. The zoo. I mean, what m

ore can you say? A zoo is always fun and you always learn SOMETHING about different species, right?

We've been studying music. Learning about the time signature, clefs, reading what notes are where (every good boy does fine, etc) and basic reading of music. We will be starting history of composers in Feb. and also piano (using "A Chronological History of Music and its Composers" and "The Gift of Music" and "Usborne Story of Music" and "Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers") and I will be teaching him to read music and play piano. However, we will also be continuing his favorite. drums. Camo's had a time playing drums with a cast up to his armpit, but he's been bangin' away. Music is big to him and we spend a lot of time on this one. Plus, you know. It's fractions. Can't beat the reinforcing of that one!

We are finishing up our unit on Egypt. He has really enjoyed this one and we have prolonged it since he was fascinated by it. If he likes it...might as well spoon feed it when he's hungry for it!

I think, think, think that catches us up for January! We're still havin' fun...still workin' hard and I am still feeling SO FORTUNATE every single day that I get to stay home and watch my lil son learn and grow!