Soaring Arrows Academy

Phew. What a whirlind of a couple of weeks! We have been learning about the medieval times, reading a book about adoption that melted my heart, learning how to tell time and count by 5's, and taking in as much science as he can. Jonny loves science. It is his absolute favorite subject and finishes a whole weeks worth of lessons in one day. We decided to water that thirst and get another science for him. We ordered Zoology 3: Land Animals of the 6th Day from Apologia. It has a young earth creationist view and studies dinosaurs. He was very excited when that came in! If I dropped handwriting from his life, he would be the happiest kid ever, but that is not happening. He is able to read a lot more words and really works on sounding them out when he stumbles. It is so fun seeing how he wants to learn, and really does try to learn it. He told me he wanted to write a note to Jesus though, which was so amazingly sweet. We built a catapult in our hands on kit as well, to go along...

We had one of those moments this week. You know what I mean. The moment that something clicks. That something is fun. That you want more of it. Jonny asked me to finish a couple of our books we were reading. He asked me to keep reading because he had to know what happened next! He does this a lot with other books, but not typically his school books. He always enjoys the books, but just wants to play. That was so fun to see the excitement in his eyes when we got to the end of a suspenseful chapter, and to beg for more because you just can't stop. Artie has been more eager to want to do school. Jonny gets jealous because his school work takes longer. Qualms of being older, my boy. Matty locked himself in our bedroom and we had to call 911 to get him out. Poor guy was so terrified that it broke my heart. And then he road rashed his face on our driveway. He had a rough day. We also had another big thing happen. My husband has had a dream for many years. A dream that has fal...

It is amazing how rejuvenating a week long break can be! We have enjoyed going to the park, playing with play-dough and magnatiles, and me organizing our material for the next few weeks. We have an exciting trip planned after this next session! The boys don't know. Daddy isn't going with either! We will be starting week 6 tomorrow and we also start back with swim lessons .I was preoccupied and completely spaced sign ups. So, I logged on at 8:04 and all of the morning sessions were taken. We have to do them in the early evening/late afternoon now. It isn't the end of the world, and it is only for 4 weeks. So, not terrible, but definitely not ideal. It is right during my dinner prep time. And I am sure a lot of people would laugh as it is during when most people are still working, but I am most assuredly not used to that! And they still have Teeball for the next couple weeks. So Wednesday night's will be interesting for the first half of this session. To make it mor...