Back in the Swing of Things

Ahhh the joy and peacful quiet of the holdiay season is over and now it is time to 'hit the books' once again. I was worried that the kids would have a difficult time getting back into the normal routine of devotionals and school work. Thankgoodness I was wrong. They all jumped 'back into the swing of things' 'with out a hitch.' (Are you loving all these cliche's?)
Anyway, we are busy finishing up our history study of the American Revolutionary War. Ryan's excited to move on because he wants to study the Civil War. Cailin is excited to finish with the history segment because she'd much rather be working on science. For the next few months she will be studying animals and will write her own book. We have the book mapped out; she will be researching and writing about a different animal every day and she's 'chomping at the bit' to get going. She loves to write.
As for Connor, he chose to keep doing math during the Christmas break. If he keeps this up he should finish with his second math book for this school year in April or May sometime. He loves to study math and science, (astronomy and Newton's laws of motion are his favorite).
Delaney loves to go to 'preschool' at the Mattson's. (Another home schooling family) She wants to learn to read. We recently purchased a large print Book of Mormon for her and are helping her identify sight words. She has most letters and sounds down and loves to "do school work" like her big brothers and sister.
And so our quest for learning continues.
Ryan is busy working on a project for history. He is researching George Washington and will present to the family and our history group a power point presentation this coming Friday.

Cailin is working on learning to write in cursive.

Delaney loves to play with the felt dolls.

Connor hard at work on his new math book, Math U See's Espsilon level