This year we’re adding some structured learning on weekdays. Both boys have notebooks to record their progress this year. They both have math and writing in their notebooks.
Aiden being able to vote in 18 months, we’re studying science with a college professor on The Great Courses Plus and reading together Robert Reich’s new memoir Coming Up Short. We look up all the historical terms and discuss how past events connect to current events.
I got a copy of the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, but I found a more kid friendly book on it that we’ll get in a couple days, along with an infographic book on how our government works.
Today we learned about the second law of thermodynamics and how it applies to water and to engines.
Now he’s reading a chapter on dogs from Temple Grandin’s Animals Make Us Human.
We watched the first episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine this morning. I told him it started when I was 12 and ended when I graduated high school. It’s the series that raised me after mom died. I watched Star Trek: The Next Generation with Mom before she died when I was 12.
We related the themes of the show to what’s going on in the real world. Aiden asked if Jadzia Dax was the first gender-fluid character on tv. I don’t know. But they did have the first onscreen female to female kiss, I think, with that character.
It’s fun learning with him. He snuggled me on the couch when we watched the science class.
It’s hard doing all this myself, but it’s worth it. Now we just need to join a community. There’s got to be one for us somewhere.
Adventures of an Earthborn Alien 