Weekly update for the week of 1/23/12

N. had another good week with RTR.  I asked him this week since we are a little over half way through how he has liked it this year.  He said he has liked it a lot and really enjoys all the books. 

I see him making progress in so many areas.  DH and I were talking about how much his writing is improving and how he is really making connections now in his reading. He also is picking up on things in ways he hasn't before.  He has really enjoyed his study through Philippians. This week he noticed that the verse said "every knew should bow and every tongue confess...".  He came to me and said "I thought it was every knee will bow and every tongue confess..".  This prompted a comparison of different versions, but no that wasn't the issue.  He then told my dh about it and dh spent time researching it and finding out that in the Old Testament God says about Himself that "every knee will bow.." and in Philippians Paul is saying "every knee should bow.." about Jesus.  We then had a very good discussion about why that was.  I was just amazed that N. picked up the difference in wording, just 6 months ago I don't know that he would have done that.

Every week he does a Research postcard about a city that is important to the history study for the week.  He has decided that each week he will write to a dog that is at the animal shelter we volunteer at.  This weeks was a little shorter than most, but usually I am pleased with what he writes.  I was also very pleased with his written narration this week.  You can see on this page the compensations we make for his C.P. and writing challenges.  He types anything of length and I write the labels for his timeline.

The big hit this week was his Science experiment.  He made an edible groundwater contamination model.  It didn't go exactly as planned with the the contamination getting through the containment layer, but then his dad explained to him how real to life that was and how he was presenting such a case to our State EPA this week.  He continues to play around with the notability app. for writing up his experiment sheets.  This week went better.  He still needs practice drawing with the stylus and he is going to play around with it some and see if he can type the labels for his drawings. Of course I missed a capitalization error and also a typo because I was focused on the layout.

He also wrote an imaginative paragraph for a story in his IEW program.  This program continues to be a good fit for him.

His history project was a Spanish Doubloon, but no pictures since it was still drying at the end of the week and he actually still needs to paint it.