Week in Review May 4-8,2015

We are half way through week 34.  We hit some big milestones this week and I am amazed how quickly he is getting done with his day now and how smoothly everything is going.  I think back to those first few weeks, especially the first day and I thought there was no way he would be able to handle the workload of this guide, but he has handled it very well.

The first big milestone is he finished Level 8 of studied dictation so he is completely done with studied dictation.  He was pretty excited about this fact and we celebrated with a milkshake that night.

The other big milestone is that he finished his World Map Project.  He chose to do the Option that used a template that gave some guidelines and 4 pieces of parchment paper taped together.  I did help trace the guidelines and I labeled the countries, because his tremor makes those things pretty tough to do.  He did all the drawing and coloring.  It was exhausting for him and he often took breaks because his hand was cramping, but he persevered.  I am so glad that I have always made him do all the drawing required in the guides.  I think it has been the best therapy his hands could have ever gotten.

He also finished reading A Book of Discovery, which is easily one of the more challenging history spines he has ever read.  He ended up liking it and learned a lot about the exploration of our world and those that persevered despite great odds.  We listened to the story of Shakelton and both of us were amazed at all he and his party endured. 

He continues to work on his research paper and is getting ready to start his 7 wonders of the world project.  I'm excited to see how both of these turn out.