Learning By The Way

The children continue to make progress in their learning. Peter is sneaking up on reading more and more. Elsie has started multiplication and shown marked improvement in writing her numerals in the last couple weeks. I rarely have to make her go back and write one again now. Toby is still ahead in his math book, but Moriah and Samuel are making good progress. Moriah wants to catch up and even did an exercise today, even though math is not required on Saturday!

They watched a DVD on building a bridge across the Bering Strait, and Toby got out the globe afterward to check out the geography. (So glad to be back with Netflix, where they actually have documentaries ready to mail! Blockbuster always said they had it, and then never sent it).

The reports are going in spurts. I hope to share them with y’all next week. They have been learning a lot about Norse legends.

They have been on a Jonathan Park kick this week, and I can’t walk through the kitchen (where our CD player is) without hearing about some scientific evidence for a young earth. They then try to recount the best parts of the story to me, as if I haven’t heard this episode at least three times before!

Margary loves the phone. She gets very excited when it rings, and yells loudly until someone answers it. She likes to pretend to talk on the phone, but won’t say a thing if we put her on a live call. Lately she seems to like best watching intently the person talking on the phone, as if trying to figure the whole thing out. Here she is holding the phone just like a big people, mostly.

Another way she likes to mimic us is by rolling dice when we play games. Here she is holding a heroscape die. She gets so pleased with herself when it is her turn to roll.