Thursday, January 05, 2006

the new year

This past Tuesday our "back to school" formal studies were well... not so formal. I had every intention of starting right back, gung ho only to be pre-empted by none other than C.S. Lewis. Hey if I have to take a backseat to anyone at least it's behind a great writer. :)

Josh is into ALL things Narnia. He is now reading his 6th book of the Narnia series, The Horse and His Boy, and has only The Magician's Nephew after that. He has read them in an order that made sense to him and LIVES in the world of Narnia it seems. He received some Narnia action figures for Christmas, numerous Narnia and Narnia-related books and the Playstation game which he has played just a few times. The books, for now, taking precedent. He has seen the movie twice and begs to go again. He tells anyone who will listen about it and professes that it is wayyyyy better than the Harry Potter movie which he loved.


I don't have the heart to pull him away from these wonderful books just so we can "do our studies". For now THESE are HIS studies. You see, this is the same boy who in the summer after "second grade" was still reading at a Kdg level. Within the next six months he was reading "at" level and 6 months later "well beyond" his so called grade level. Doing things in "his own time frame" and not some time frame dictated by a "system". That's why this homeschooling thing works for us, formal studies or not :)

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