Turn, turn, turn....

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 with our medieval studies! The boys played with that for quite a while and enjoyed launching the pom poms.

It is finally starting to cool off here. I can feel fall in the air, which makes me excited. I enjoy the cooler weather a lot more than I do the heat. We are going to try and cram 2 weeks in to 1 week so we can take a 3 week long break. This will also give me a good chance to have a week to get ready for our California trip with Nana!! We'll see how it goes!

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