“Oh
my phalanges! My phalanges!”
That was the cry that came from my
third grader’s mouth after accidentally grabbing a bee while working in the bee
yard with Jake. That kid is something
else.
It seems like it’s been ages since I
last blogged. As I type, we are
finishing up week six of our homeschooling.
Wow! I can’t believe we’ve
already completed SIX WEEKS! And, lest
you think it’s been an easy six weeks, let me quickly correct you!
Jonah’s working hard to improve his reading
while at the same time steadily improving his math skills that were already
pretty good. He also started back to his
speech class at Medart Elementary this week.
I can’t believe he’s in first grade now!
Levi’s learning division, capitalization and punctuation (okay, so that’s more review), American history (more detailed from what he learned last year), classes of animals and some of our body’s bones and muscles. Yes, I said BONES and muscles----my third grader! Well, we’ve only covered a couple of muscles so far, but he’s pretty versed on the main bones of the body now.
I don’t think we learned this stuff
until tenth grade when I was in school!
But my third grader can fairly easily tell you where his skull, scapula,
clavicle, sternum, pelvis, patella, phalanges, femur, humorous and several
other bones of his body are. And we know
he’s truly learning them because in addition to the phalanges statement, on
another day shortly after that, he came home pointing to his chest and telling
me that he’d gotten stung in the sternum.
I think he’s having fun with it now despite the rough start.
Levi’s also attending P.E. at Medart
Elementary on the days Jonah goes to speech (as he did last year). And, let’s not forget gymnastics. Yep, both boys are now enrolled and loving
every minute of it! On top of all that,
AWANA has started back so they’re also steadily memorizing Bible verses on a
daily basis. We’ve even had brief
geography lessons as some friends of ours moved to Alaska and we tracked them
there and learned a few facts along the way.
But lest I make it sound like
peaches and cream, I’ll confess that there was some head butting and fussing
and pouting and ugly attitudes when we first began----- but I’ve repented of
all that now and am trying to have a better attitude.J
I almost forgot to include that
Jonah had his annual appointment with Dr. Weinstein at Shands earlier this
month and got a great report. We did
find out that some bacteria love cornstarch (Jonah’s medicine that he has to
take daily) so that explains many of the problems we’ve had and that there’s
not a lot we can do about it (other than probiotics which I’d already started
him on). But, all-in-all he got a great
report and we’re very glad about that.
