When Zeru grows up....

We have been studying History, Science and Geography quite a bit this past week.

The earth's water cycle, different cloud types, Gas, Solid, Liquid, lightning and thunder, air pressure, and other earth science subjects.

For anyone else out there looking for good educational "stuff" or tools, I have found some (as well as made some!). So far I can say "Useborne" books are AMAZING! Zeru has two of their sticker books which are of course fun, but teach him history! He loves them!

From the book I have done basic reading comprehension lessons, a lesson on time-lines, geography, and also history lessons.

We also found several interesting books from a variety of sources on Archaeology, and Zeru has just gotten a dinosaur book for his Leapfrog Tag reader (The book came with a $4 off coupon!)

So today as I asked him about what he would like to be when he grew up he was pretty convinced what he wanted:

"When I am big and in the army flying my helicopter (he also has stated quite boldly, "I will not kill anyone when I am in the army") I will fly to super secret places no one else knows except me and I will be a paleontologist archaeologist."

We were also fortunate to get a fun "dino-dig kit" brick thing for free from a thrift store, so we had been digging in that as well.

While some days we take a break from math, English, and Amharic, we are always learning something! My hope is that if I begin with the basics NOW, later we can slowly refresh and add more complex ideas to the foundation already laid- that way he does not just learn it all at once in grade 9 and forget it all by age 20 (like me).