Home Schooling

It occurs to me, looking over the postings, that I haven't talked much about what we have been doing HS wise. So here goes... at the moment we are doing a dinosaur unit. The boys are learning a lot -- I am learning a lot too! Jason (and Xander when he wants to) knows the meanings of words 'carne', 'herbi' and 'omni' as well as the verb 'vore'. They also know how the 'age of the dinosaurs' is divided and when it ended. They know the names and types of an enormous number of dinosaurs. Jason is becoming very familiar with the process of using encyclopedias and dictionaries as he researchs his dinosaurs. Xander... grin... well Xander is torn between his love for 'meat eaters' (This is Tyrannosaurus Rex, better known as TREX' he informs me) and his fascination with Stegasaurus ('He wore PLATE MAIL, Mommy! He had armor!). He is also delighted with the flying dinosaurs and he and Jason just love the idea that modern birds are related to some of those beasties from the past.

Beyond Dinosaurs (and we shall be ending that unit soon to move on to our next one!), we are also 'enrolled' in Hogwarts Correspondence School. This is a webgroup and what happens, simply enough, is that the HS parent 'renames' courses and coursework. So Jason is taking Arithmancy (Math), Quills (Handwriting and Spelling), History of Magic (History/Reading). Xander is also enrolled and is taking similar courses (grin). They both have 'mentors' (me) who write them notes and send them books and a variety of other items via 'owl post'. The boys' Nana has made them each a Hogwarts shirt to wear:> Now I just need to finish making them their robes.

We are also using 'English from the Roots up' to learn English/Latin/Greek. And we are going to start learning Hawaiian.

Enough for now. Boys are awake. I am off.