No energy to blog last week – planning and starting back to the homeschool routine is exhausting. But these kids are worth it! Here’s a bit about each of them. 🙂
Miss A
Age & Grade: 16, 11th
Favorite book/learning experience last year: our mother-daughter trip to England
Looking forward to: she really enjoys the anatomy course she’s taking – drawing is right up her alley!
Dreading: the PSAT in a few weeks! She’s diligently preparing, though.
Strengths: a hard worker and budding baker, writer, and artist
Future plans: finish high school!
Mr. D
Age/Grade: 13 (14 next month), 8th
Favorite book/learning experience last year: Watership Down, our tour of the castle near Cincinnati
Looking forward to: reading A Briefer History of Time later this year
Dreading: math getting harder
Strengths: remembering facts (really anything he puts his mind to), a knack for “voices” (you should hear his C-3PO imitation), making things like stop-motion videos and Batman costumes
Future plans: build a car
Mr. E
Age/Grade: 11, 6th
Favorite book/learning experience last year: Oliver Twist, the LEGO Robotics competition
Looking forward to: reading the Iliad and discussing it with Dad 🙂
Dreading: Latin getting harder (but he’s doing well with Getting Starting with Latin!)
Strengths: getting his independent work done, helping out, giving hugs
Future plans: wants to work at the Jungle Gym when he’s older
Mr. L
Age/Grade: 7, 2nd
Favorite book/learning experience last year: Pinocchio, the Cincinnati Art Museum and castle trip
Looking forward to: reading Robin Hood (he really wants to watch the old Errol Flynn movie afterward 😉 )
Dreading: couldn’t thing of anything – guess that’s good!
Strengths: he’s a natural at narrating! He’s got a head for numbers, too, and his reading skills are starting to come together.
Future plans: wants to be a doctor
Little R
Age/Grade: 5, kindergarten
Favorite book/learning experience last year: his dinosaur book, the Cincinnati trip
Looking forward to: lots of LEGO creations and drawings of monsters
Dreading: picking up those LEGO pieces off his bedroom floor 😉
Strengths: amazingly creative and keeps us smiling
Future plans: wants to be a scientist who learns about dinosaurs (of course!)
