Y-wing

The ship was put together the Monday after our big trip. Grammy left that morning to go back home and we began the task of putting it together. The birthday-boy-to-be started acting a little tired. Then about 2/3 of the way through the project he asked me if I could finish the ship while he went to take a nap. Wait, WHAT?! You know the boy is sick if he walks away from a Lego project to take a nap. Turns out, he had the swine flu. Then I got it, hubby got it and little brother got it. The only person unaffected was our daughter! Thankfully, she was spared.

Since the completion of the ship, our boy has thoroughly enjoyed flying it everywhere around the house and creating many grand adventures for it. A few pieces have fallen off, but that's okay. Since then, he had his actual birthday where he received the Spider Droid set from his other grand parents, the anniversary set of The Battle of Endor, a membership to the Lego club and the Lego Star Wars Visual Dictionary. Lego heaven if you've just turned 6.

Just two days ago, little brother asked me to teach him to read. So sweet! Since he's not enrolled in a preschool program this year, I've been brushing up on a bit of curriculum for the little man. Earlier this year I also got the book, "What your Kindergartner Needs to Know" from the Core-Knowledge series along with the same book for second graders. In addition to all that, I had previously purchase the Little Hands to Heaven preschool curriculum. With all that in place, I started today to work on theme weeks here at my house in our supplemental schooling room. (I can't claim to be homeschooling but I like the idea of covering all the parts I think are cool. Ha.)

Today went extremely well. Big brother is in half day Kindergarten so during the morning we started off making a turkey craft where they cut out pieces and assembled a turkey with leaves and a head made to look like an acorn - thus keeping it with my Long A theme for the week. Big guy is working on writing his whole name while little brother is working toward just his first name. After Big Brother went off to school, we worked on a few more items together because he wanted to "do school". It was fun! I love this idea because it's fail safe. If I completely fall off the wagon, they are going to public school and will be no worse off. If I find that we are thriving and loving it, then I know that I have the skills to do this if it should become necessary at some point. Win, win. Right? And we're making good memories doing stuff together. You'll surely be seeing more about this here on our little blog.

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