Thanksgiving

We had a lot to be thankful for this year.  The only damage to our home after Sandy was to the chimney.  We had no power for over a week but we had good friends and neighbors to take care of us.  We had family that also lost power from the storm but no other ill effects.  We are rich in the things that matter.  Good friends and family.

Now that Thanksgiving is over, today was our first day back to school.  Instead of easing back in we went full throttle.  Diving in to all our subjects and catching up on work that we let slide before Thanksgiving.

Little Miss M and I had a lovely discussion about Hinduism and its history.  She continues to work on note taking skills.  Vocabulary seems to be a bit of struggle this year for her.  She understands the meaning of the word but is struggling to use it correctly in a sentence.  I think she just does not like taking the time to think up a thorough sentence.

Mister B continues plugging ahead in all of his subjects.  He finished up his unit on ph values in the stomach and the intestines and learned the valuable lesson to read all the instructions first.  A lesson that he seems to need to relearn every few months. 

Today Mister B has his first swim meet for the town high school team.  It is an internal meet so the coach can see what you've got and make the line up for the first competition meet this coming Friday.   He has been enjoying the team practices and they have definitely given him some tips that have been helping on the club team the kids swim for.  He has been finding the practices challenging and enjoyable.  The high school team does a lot of team building.  You have to take the bus too and from practices, swimming in a meet or not you have to attend to support your team mates, and after today's meet they are having a pizza party. All of this definitely assists with the social needs that are always such a challenge with homeschooling in my area.