Old and New in the New Year

#1 learned some new things this week, and he learned about some really old things!

He's still working hard on writing letters and numbers. Being left handed, I think it takes a little more effort on his part and patience on my part. We added the Math-U-See curriculum this week. We started off by building numbers with the cubes. #1 also worked hard on reading from Ordinary Parents Guild to Teaching Reading and is doing great on his sight words. For science, we will be studying animals for the next two months. With some of his Christmas money, I ordered Wild Kratts DVDs, which he loves. Most of our conversations start out, "Mommy, did you know..." and I get to learn something new about the animal from the episode he watched.

In history, we talked about hieroglyphics. He learned that long ago some people wrote on tablets and other people wrote on clay. Then they started making paper. We used play-doh to try to carve in it like clay. Then we painted like they did on papyrus. We talked about how paper was better because it was smaller, didn't have to be baked in the sun to harden, and was easier to store. But, paper can get damaged and doesn't last as long. #1 loves history and does a great job retaining what he learns. It's always fun for me to hear him tell his dad everything that he did that day so I know what's he's really getting and enjoying!