Learning at Home Update...

We're entering our second week of learning at home and it's going great so far! Our curriculum this year is a pretty hefty jump up from last year but we are really, really enjoying everything so far!

Luke is really enjoying learning to print his letters... I was really surprised by how much he already knew - besides teaching him how to spell his name, and helping him to spell the odd word whenever he asked for help - I had not formally taught him handwriting until now!  This week we are focusing on the letter B!

Today was a more relaxed learning day, and he spent some time making clay  pots just like some of the early peoples did:

And then when he was done that, he turned it into Jabba the hut (even though I swear he's never heard of Jabba before).  We are SOOO letting him watch Star Wars very soon!!

We also learned about the Water Cycle (or hydrologic cycle) and he found it rather fascinating to learn that the rain that fell in our backyard today or the water that he has in his glass is as old as the earth! And that we could be drinking water that dinosaurs drank long ago!! 

Learning at home rocks!!