Latest Happenings

We've been busy with a lot of Geography this year! We've covered Provinces, very thankful to be Canadian a lot less to remember LOL We are looking at the bodies of water within our country and why capitals and the like were setup where they were. We looked at Continents most recently and how they break down to the cities we live in. We covered the different land forms throughout Canada and this is going to tie in nicely with our study of Biomes.

We are going to research the major biomes and then create a movie on them :) He was instantly intrigued by the idea and asked if we could put it on YouTube when we finished. So I'll post the link to that once he gets it done. This project will take us a number of sessions to complete.

His math is progressing pretty well, we have 7's and 8's to cover and then he is done with math facts and moves on to multiple digit multiplication. I could have introduced it before now but I like the idea of tackling one thing at a time :) Great math program so far, we're using Math - U - See.

History is going well, we posted our viking boat a few posts ago. I'll have to take a look at what's next but should be a lot of hands on now that we are getting into the middle Middle Ages.

Language we are doing daily and we flip between spelling/phonics (M, W, F) and formal writing (Tues, T). He's not a huge fan of these but they are as interactive as these types of things get LOL

His reading continues to progress and is eager to tell me about the latest chapter he's read. Beast Quest offers and number of books and we'll be in this series for a good long time :)

We are doing skiing this year as well in the mornings. The weather has been very cold the past while so we've not been out as often as I thought we would. Having said that we are ALL enjoying this and will continue to buy the pass next year!

It's been a productive year and we seem to be doing really well. With all the other social activities (Lego club, swimming, gym, bowling, library) it's been a great year so far :)

The kiddos decided they would venture out today and play. I thought they would be in right away but they toughed it out for quite some time. This was them when they came in though LOL