School Days

“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.