Year 3 Goings On

As I am taking some time to work on Year 3 organization I wanted to leave an accounting here.

I just finished a book titled "People of the Book" by Geraldine Brooks --wow what a story! It mentioned many of the people/times/places we've been reading about recently as well. (now I didn't say this was a "chrischun" book so there I notified you up front) However those with a liking for historical mystery that is based on a Haggadah will enjoy.

I'm taking a few moments to compile some Book of Centuries images for year 3 mentioned thus far. I plan to keep this file and would be willing to pass it on.

I'd also like to make a map for use during Pilgrim's Progress but the one from the 1800's is so anti-Hebrew Roots it's pathetic! Who do these people claim as their Saviour if they are anti-Hebraic????

I'm also not so inclined to read so much about greek mythology. Instead I located another book on MainLesson's website with just one short chapter to be read on the 5 mythologies, rather than spending a whole 36ish weeks. (this also means we could skip Hawthorne's versions under the Year 2 free reads and we need to finish Otto of the Silver Hand, Along Came a Dog, and D'Aulaire's Lincoln in order to move onto Year 3 free reads)

Yet when it came to the biographical selections, We couldn't pick just one per term, so we are making a way to read them all.

I also recently have been locating resources to teach "furch" history with a pro-Hebrew Roots point of view. So far "One People Many Tribes" seems a good option. If there are others out there, please chime in.

and just for laughs --- we find it funny that Claude Monet's first name was Oscar and he too thought schools were like prison!

Wrapping up Year 2 -- finally!

Even though we are officially in "3rd grade" we still needed to finish about 2 terms in Year 2. This week will be the end of the Year 2 readings (other than free reads which will be carried over) and starting febr. onto Year 3 readings.

DS has had some really insightful narrations. Children really are capable of making connections and finding deeper meanings.

on Jan 12th my niece Madison was released from the heart doctor's care so HaleluYAH!!!!

Other than that just trying to survive staying with my mom and her husband -- who is a very very bad influence on DS so prayers needed we can get out of here soon.

Joined another fitness challenge as well. Last year we were challenged to workout once in the AM and again later in the day. Talk about pound losage even while eating normally.

This time aim is 300-900 minutes of excerise per week and we have to log calories as well.

I came across something about how people challenged themselves to read 50 books in 2009....so I went back and added up my readings. I read 64 that I can remember give or take a non-fiction that may have slipped my recollection. ok so how did I read so much? Well it's amazing what you can do while walking on a treadmill one hour every morning.

DS is back in gymnastics and currently plays basketball and soon will be time for machine pitch baseball again and then he wants to play flag football also. Not to mention bike/skateboarding/swimming when the weather warms up again.