Weekly update for the week of 4/12/10

After taking last week off we were rested and ready to dive back in. This week we continued our tour of history with the Elizabethan time period. N has been drawing pictures while I read of key points in the readings and it is amazing how that improves his oral narration. He is just such a visual kid. I think it helps him listen better also. His one comment though as we did CHOW and "The Wonderful Winter" was that there sure were a lot of people loosing their heads back then. Our storytime reading has been "The Wonderful Winter" and he has amazed me with how willing he is to sit and listen to this. Once day the reading was 25 pages long. I thought for sure he would loose interest, but he didn't. He was able or tell me all the important details. At the beginning of the year there is no way he could have done that.

My DH was home today and was around as we read Child's History of the World. He was amazed at the improvement in N's ability to answer the questions or find the answers if he couldn't remember. When N went in and did his written narration by himself, he was very impressed. He had helped with written narrations earlier in the year and couldn't believe he was at the point of doing a nice 5 sentence narration with assistance only for final editing.

In Science he has continued to study Leonardo Da Vinci. He was fascinated with the backwards writing that Da Vinci did in his notebooks. His experiment was looking at the difference between voluntary and involuntary muscles. He learned that voluntary muscles get very tired.

He does his Geography all by himself now unless he just can't find something on the globe.


The history project this week was making a Renaissance necklace. I think I had the wrong type of toothpaste for the fast drying clay. I ended up with a gooey mess, so we bought air dry clay.


He continues to do well with his math and language arts. He has decided he loves anything to do with symmetry and congruent shapes. He definitely takes after his dad in that.