Fun With School, Ending Studies and New Adventures

I take it as a good sign when you give your kids an oral quiz over the past three lesson in science and the pretty much remember everything they studied.  Especially considering that each lesson takes two weeks to cover.  So that means they were remembering stuff from over a month ago.  That either means that I am a really good teacher or the curriculum presents the material in a way that is fun and easy to assimilate.  I think it's all of the above.

We have had a lot of fun learning about plants.  But alas that is soon to come to an end.  Our study of Botany only has two more lessons in left and they are mostly wrap up stuff.  I am in the process of planning a couple of field trips to end our study with.  One, I want to take the boys to a botanical garden with an indoor conservatory(due to the season) and two, I am wanting to take them on a nature walk with a field guide to look at and study the trees.  I think these two things would be a lot of fun and would tie up nicely all that we have learned.

They are also getting close to finishing their study of U.S. Geography and I will soon be looking for a new curriculum.  Not sure exactly where we will go from here but where every it is I know it will be a journey.

This is the boys last week of there Bible study of Revelation.  They have really enjoyed it and had lots of fun learning about all the seals, the horsemen and the woman and the beast etc...  They probably know more about Revelation than most kids, maybe even adults now.   We have picked out and ordered our next Bible study.  It is the same curriculum study, Discover 4 Yourself but it is titled Amazing Adventures with God.  It is a study on Issac, Jacob and Esau.  It should be very good and we are looking forward to it.

They are continuing on with their language arts and math.  It is a full year curriculum and will be done with it sometime in May.  Then we will probably continue with the curriculum we have been using.  The kids really like it and it is very easy to use and teach with.

Joshua has really been enjoying his Art class and we will definitely continue that for him.  Sean is about to complete his season of basketball.  What started out as me just signing him up even though he was very adamant about the whole idea.  Needless to say he is now in love with the sport and we will be looking for another way for him to play because the Y only offers it during the winter.  Joshua will be starting soccer at the end of March and is not too excited about it.  He would rather play kick ball but I haven't been able to find a kids kickball league.  You can find adult leagues but not kids.  Maybe I should mention starting one at the Y.

The only thing left to talk about is their PE class.  It is two days a week on Monday and Wednesdays stating at 7:30am which gets us all up at 6:00 on those days.  They have really enjoyed their PE class and will not be very happy when it ends the end of May.  It follows the public school schedule so when public school is over, it will be too.  I will have to plan something else for them over the summer because we pretty much continue school through the summer with a little more flexible schedule.

Well, I think that covers all that is going on with the kids school right now.  This next year will bring about many changes as Sean enters 7th grade and I have to start keeping more permanent records of his grades and school work.  Should be interesting for me.  I'm really not looking forward to that part and am not sure were to start.  I am sure I will figure it out.

That's it.  I hope this has not bored you too much.  Just my teacher ramblings.