Update for the week of 12/5/11

Once again this is going to be a bi-weekly update.  These past few weeks have just flown by.  We have had Choir Cantata's to go to and co-op performances and this weekend is the kids/teens musical at church in which N. is playing Isaac.  We have managed to still keep up with school though.

N. continues to really enjoy RTR.  The history projects continue to be his favorite part of each week.  Last week he made a banner like the one King Sigismund carried.

This week he made a replica of a Fra Angelico's painting "The Annunciation".  He really took his time coloring it.  I was proud of how hard he worked at it.

He started Mystery of History Volume 3 this week for his history reading and he is enjoying it.  Even on days he doesn't have to narrate he likes to stop and tell me about each person he is reading about.  For Storytime we are reading "Ink on His Fingers" about Johann Gutenberg.  We both have really enjoyed it.

During the good sales around Thanksgiving we broke down and bought a laptop computer.  Both kids end up needing the computer during the day and with N's CP he really does best if he can type things.  He likes being able to do his research for his postcard right there at the table.

In Science he is now reading A Child's Geography of the World.  He seems to like this book and likes that we are back to a predicable Science routine using Carrie's plans.  Right now his written narrations for science are back to sounding more like summaries, but I know this will improve as he goes along.

He is reading "Guns for General Washington" for his DITHOR book.  He seems to really enjoy this although sometimes he seems to get stuck when it comes to filling out his pages for the workbook.  I think he is afraid to give a wrong answer.  I keep encouraging him to just say what comes to his mind. 

We received the results of his neuropsychological evaluation this week.  It clearly showed his strengths and weaknesses.  HOD definitely teaches in a way that will help with his areas of struggle.  His math and visual perceptual scores were very high, which according to the Dr. is unheard of with kid with CP.  We are praising God for his news. 

The other big news in the past 2 weeks was that N. tested for his Interim Black Belt in Karate and got it!!  This has taken a lot of dedication on his part.  His next belt will be a black belt. When he first started Karate in 2nd grade I never believed he would make it this far.  Once again an answer to prayer.