Days off mean more school!

Zeru and I took 2 days off of work which meant major school time!

It was awesome and fun!

It was of course not without plenty of lessons on the history of flight, different air planes, and more lessons on the four forces in flight (Lift, Weight, Drag, and Thrust)

We have been using word flashcards (5-8 each week) and Zeru writes them each day, we read them

together, and we do review throughout the week of both the new and old words.

Here Zeru has been building sentences with his flash cards from previous weeks.

We have added "s" and "ing" so he can form more complex sentences with words he already knows.

We have been practicing reading sentences of words he already knows.

Here he is writing this week's words. ዛፍ is Amharic for "tree" if you were wondering. We try to add one or two Amharic words each week. (And I actually spelled it wrong on his flash card! Oops!)

Before you criticize his terrible handwriting, look again... He is right handed, but for whatever reason (he claims he does not want to get his right hand dirty) he uses his LEFT hand to write on the chalk board! I let him. He seems comfortable doing it, though his penmanship is a bit lacking.

And of course we pulled out our road to reading for some fun! It is really great when he can now read the whole sentence on the "useful words" cards (The other sets have pictures). Here he proudly holds up his card he has just read.