It felt SO GOOD to get back into school this week! Even though Tim gave me a really hard time for giving him a break, it was obvious today he needed it. He did SO WELL today. I found a book at the 99 cent store that introduces word problems for math, and he did a page in that. I am horrible with these and always was, so I want to introduce it early to him. He got it, it was just simple pictures where they showed four cats, showed two walking away, and he had to write how many was left.

For science, I am so excited this week! We are learning about birds, and we’re going to be doing a lot of observations. We started today by just looking at the different types of birds we see, and trying to identify them online. I had him try to tell me how many different birds he heard, and whether he thought they sounded angry or happy. I had read a book to him about why birds sing, too. Tomorrow, he’s going to gather things in the yard and try to make his own bird nest, the lesson being on how awesome it is that birds can do this without any hands.  We are also learning about California, and in the process, he’s learning a little about researching online, and copying and pasting to make worksheets.

On T4L, he learned today how to count by two’s and five’s. I don’t believe I could have explained this to him in a way he would have understood it, but he really got it by using T4L. I was really impressed! The two’s were easier for him than the five’s, until I showed him the relationship between the numbers when going by fives, that the last number alternates between 5 and 0. Then, that was easier for him if he’s looking at a number line.