I'm such a nerd, I still love the play on words.  My son didn't quite get it when I told him we were done with grammar and math for the rest of the year. After I explained it he laughed. 

We have been using the last three days to play catch up on a few subjects.  We have been behind in art, geography, music, and history.  So have we touched history since then? NO!  We've been having too much fun with art, music and geography.  I feel the American Revolution will still be waging over Christmas if we don't study it most of Monday and Tuesday.

We also started reading "The Magician's Nephew" from the Chronicles of Narnia.  We opted to save it until the 2nd to last book.  I read the many different thought patterns on which order to read the books in, and decided to jumble the numbers written on the spine.  I have to say I'm glad we did.  I had never read the books before and we are having a blast discovering all the.... well, let's just say we're enjoying this book the most so far. 

We have been using "Drawing Basic with Thomas Kinkade" for art this year.  We have been getting behind, but we enjoy the lessons.  Thomas Kinkade is wonderful at teaching.  Having never used lifepacs before I've been a little confused, but I get out my sketch pad and work right along with my son, it's been great.  This week he was jumping up and down asking to do more art so we spent most of Thursday and Friday on it.  I love art, and it is nice to see some of those genes got passed down as well. 

We've also enjoyed catching up on some composers.  This week we looked at Beethoven. My son also made a quite profound statement while reading about Beethoven's appearance and confidence. It was something like, "your confidence has nothing to do with the way you look". Amazed! I love his wisdome. Of course, I think he is fiendishly cute, and handsome just like his daddy. But it is so nice that he know that is not where his confidence should lie.

May you all have a blessed and joyous Christmas.