We have the first couple of weeks of school done! I am excited about how the year is going so far, but I am WELL aware that a million different things can happen to throw off all of our progress and plans. Here's Isaac on the first day of school. He always gets that weird, crazed look on his face when he doesn't want me to take his picture.
Here's my sweet Graham on our first day.
For something new this year, Isaac has an "Independent Research" time. Isaac will choose a topic from a master list we have compiled together, and then spend at least a half an hour every day researching this topic. He can use the internet, our books, library books or netflix. He has to use two sources per topic, and then he will write a brief summary of what he learned. Here he is researching Steve Jobs.
We have been having lots of fun for World Geography so far this year. Isaac and Graham both made paper mache globes.
The second week of geography, we visited China. We made the Great Wall of China.
I was proud of the boys, they pretty much did it on their own with minimal guidance from me.
Graham is totally enjoying his school time this year. In addition to our regular activities, we have a monthly theme and will be doing all sorts of fun things to go along with our theme. For September, the theme is "fall." We made fall-tree cupcakes. After we got done, Graham said, "mom, that doesn't look ANYTHING like the picture we saw." Oh well. Cupcake goddess I am not.
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