“Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs so plainly as does a dog when, with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.” – Charles Darwin
School was briefly interrupted when the PE coach (AKA- the dog) got injured why chasing a tennis ball. We took her to the vet and learned she tore her CCL (Equivalent to the ACL in humans) . The only way to heal that was with a specialized surgery...
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Well, it's exciting times over here. Our philosophy is every kid, every year, we will decide what is best for them. And this year has been a massive comedy of errors (and chaos from the beginning).
Preparing to evacuate from a wildfire was an unusual part our summer, however, we were fortunate enough to do other things that were not threatened by smoke or flames.
Here's some of our summer in pictures:
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| Unicorn cookies for A2 |
We finished all of our curriculum up last week. So this week it was cooking treats for math and science.
A1 worked really hard and finished all of his math review this week. We had a donut party to celebrate.
LA: More typing and reading and writing. A1 also compared and contrasted different DND characters. He then picked one to research further into what the character could do as it leveled up. He made a chart to explain it and wrote a paper on it. I love that he can pick a topic he's interested in and use that to learn important language art skills.
Science: Here are more crazy facts A1's has learned:
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| Love note from A2 |
Math: We finished the last unit. We have a couple of weeks of review and then math is complete.
Language Arts: Reading and typing.
Science: Videos...