Today

It's been a good day for homeschooling. Other things have been tough but homeschooling as been pretty good.

We read TSOM together today. It was very interesting. We read the chapter on the Rise of the Church.

He took 2 math tests today. We accidentally forgot to take one when it was time. He got a 95 and 90. Pretty good, I think. If only he wasn't careless we'd have 100's but at least it minimal carelessness.

He took a spelling test and did great on the words (didn't miss any) but he made a few mistakes on the dictation. Nothing major though. Still over all he got a 95. Then he continued on with his lesson from "Language Arts Through Literature".

His reading is going really well. He is reading "Stories from the Iliad and the Odyssey" by G. Chandon. He is really enjoying it and wants to read the real thing next. He loves to read and would do nothing but read for school if I let him.

Science actually happened purely by accident! We were talking about his plant and the uses it has. We were looking in a book about alternative cures and he just started reading the index and as he found something interesting he would read it to me and we would talk about it. We ended up talking about (besides the rosemary) asthma and the lungs, strains and sprains and R.I.C.E. It was actually pretty fun. He quizzed me on some of it to see what I knew too. Some of the medications he was on when he was sick were in there and he was able to look them up and see what all they are used for and how that was different or alike what he was taking it for himself.

He finished off writing in his journal and is now outside in the beautiful sunlight playing with the dog.