Striding forward
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!
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:30 pm
I just had to tell you I love the name Elsie. I have two boys, but if we had had a girl, that was one of my top picks! It is so cute! It sounds like your kids are doing great.