Last week of Rev to Rev

We finished Rev to Rev this week.  I asked N. what he thought of the year and how the guide ranked among the other guides he has done. He said it was one of his favorite guides.  The only book he struggled with was The Growth of the British Empire, he said that was his least favorite book of the year.  It is a more challenging book with more challenging vocabulary, so it doesn't surprise me that it wasn't his favorite.  He loved everything else. 

His last project of the year was a salt dough map of the British Empire.  I helped him out by writing the labels since he just can't write that small, but he did everything else.

 He was very excited about some of his last written narrations that he did in his Inventors notebook.  He thought it was great that it was so big he had to fold it in half for it to fit.  He made sure to show his dad this one when he was doing his end of the year show and tell.

He also loved putting together the Composer study lap book.  It gave him quite the sense of accomplishment.  He even had to show his sister all of it.

I think my favorite Storytime book was the one we did last and that was "George Washington Carver".  What an amazing man of faith. N. really enjoyed it also.

It was a good year.  I can look back and see growth.  It is hard if I compare him to other dc his age, but God is teaching me to not play the comparison game and just rejoice in N. and his accomplishments.  We have a tradition that at the end of each guide I take a picture of how he feels about ending the guide/school year.  Here is this years picture.

Update for week of 5/6/13

You can tell it is almost the end of the year in that I haven't been nearly as faithful with my blog.  We just finished week 34 of Rev to Rev which means next week is our last week!

Here are pictures of a few things he has done the past few weeks.

Here N. is reading his Wright Brothers book to his foster dog.  He has done some fantastic narrations after reading his selections in this book.  One of my favorite parts of this year has been the Inventor study.  He has learned so much about perseverance and not quitting just because things get difficult.  This is a very important lesson for him to take hold of since so many thing are hard for him.  The written narrations for these books have been more open ended.  It just says to do a written narration without giving him a number of sentences.  It is funny, when he does his history written narrations he focuses on the 10-14 sentence thing and often only puts down 10 or 11.  With these he often does at least 15-16 sentences.  In fact many times he has to fold the paper in half to make it fit in his inventor notebook 

He also finished his Singers of the Declaration Research cards.  He did very well with these this year.  This week he has had to organize them in different ways.  He organized them by colony they were from one day and another day by how old they were when they died.  He said this activity wore him out-such drama.

This week he learned about the Chicago World's Fair and he made Sweet Tea, Carmelized Popcorn and ate Ice Cream from a cone.  These were all things introduced at the World's Fair that year.  The Popcorn was amazing and I have a feeling it will become a favorite family snack.

In Science he has been experimenting with light and the solar fan he made.  We have had many dreary, rainy days so this has been a little tricky, but he finally go the experiments done. 

He has already said how sad he will be to see this year end.  That to me is a successful year.