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Field Trip!Well, last Friday was an absolute beautiful day. And to make things even better... my husband happened to have a day off! There was no way I could make the boys do school on such a blessed day. So we decided to go to the zoo... and it's the first trip of the season. And boy did we have a lot of fun!The first thing we saw was the otters. And the little guys were swimming around and playing. They swam right up to the glass. The boys were overjoyed and Aiden just giggled when the otter swam up to them. The tigers were also showing off.. one was preening and making noises that weren't quite like growls. It was almost like he was showing off his vocal cords. The lions were even a little active... but mostly because the male lion was looking for shade and one of the lionesses kind of batted him away from her shady place. The polar bears weren't swimming... which was somewhat of a disappointment (the Detroit zoo has this amazing exhibit where you can walk through and the polar bears can actually swim over you) but one of them was playing around. The kangaroo exhibit is also one that is pretty awesome. You actually walk through the exhibit and its completely open. The can even hop across your path. There were a couple of them hopping but no where near the path... but it was still pretty cool to see. And that was just some of what we saw. It was a great day. On the more traditional academic front we had a fairly good week. Xander is loving the human body unit in science. He can name most of the major bones (which is what we learned last week) and he'll rattle them off at random sometimes. In history he's enjoying Rome as we just started that ancient civilization. He found it fun drawing on the story similarities of Romulus and Remus to Moses. Not to mention he now knows the names Romulus and Remus, so when I watched an episode of the original Star Trek he was all excited when he heard the names of the Romulan howme world. Oh not to mention his new favorite word is etruscan. In math he can now do his speed drills in under 40 seconds which has been a huge improvement. Lucas has been steadily trucking alone with his numbers and letters. We're still having problems with the recognition of the letter s but we're persevering! His colors and shapes we have no problems with. He even knows crescent, oval and diamond. He can now count to 11 with no problems, we're still having some trouble with the teens. But hey he is only 3, so we're taking it slow. Thankfully this week will be our week off in the rotation. We'll have one day to make up for missing Friday... but we can handle it. We need the rest of the week off though. It's time for us to just have fun. We'll break in our new Professor Noggin games I think. I'm sure Xander will want to work on some of his history lapbooks. The boy can't seem to get enough history! Leave a Comment { Last Page } { Page 5 of 45 } { Next Page } |
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