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Well, our first week went well. Matt so far is enjoying it. He just wishes we could skip having him read. he hates to read.Science is good so far. We are working our way through Lesson 1 in the Zoo 1 book. We learned a lot about the classification system for animals. So confusing LOL. We also began to learn about flight and air pressure. We did an little experiment that showed us how air pressure works. When you blow into the straw, the water from the cup comes out the other straw and gets you wet (well me hehe).
History so far is about the Fall of Rome. At the beginning of the first story, it takes you on this magic carpet ride around what use to be the Roman Empire. One of the coloring pages was of a person sitting on a flying carpet. We cut out the face, and i taped a picture of Matt's face to it, so now it looks like him flying around. I would have a picture of it, but my scanner does not work atm. (I need t o find a Vista compatable driver for it grrrr)
Math is just a bunch of review so far. It's the only thing I hate about Saxon. The first 1/3 of the book is all review from the year before. Matt does need some review as the last month, we did no school at all. I may skip ahead after awhile though.
Language Arts Matt seems to be enjoying. He is amazed at how short the lessons are. I love it that way. He loves Explode the Code and learning how to write cursive. Its a struggle, but its not bad yet. That might change when we start to write words instead of just letters in cursive.
Math is just a bunch of review so far. It's the only thing I hate about Saxon. The first 1/3 of the book is all review from the year before. Matt does need some review as the last month, we did no school at all. I may skip ahead after awhile though.
Language Arts Matt seems to be enjoying. He is amazed at how short the lessons are. I love it that way. He loves Explode the Code and learning how to write cursive. Its a struggle, but its not bad yet. That might change when we start to write words instead of just letters in cursive.
Saturday was the warehouse sale at CBD. I went the night before and grabbed the SOTW volume 3 activity book for 7.00. Nothing wrong with it that I can tell, so no idea why it was in the bargain bins. I also grabbed a couple of fiction books for Matt and one for me.
Well, I need to go make lunch for the boys (Hubby is working in the basement today). Moreto come next week.
