I never thought I’d hear two things out of Cameron’s mouth. But I heard them both today. This morning I was on the phone with my mom and Cameron said “Get off the phone, Mommie. I want to do school!” And then when we were finished with school, he said “Can’t we do more? I love doing school!” I am thrilled. I have found what works for him. It’s working for Ani, too. And we’re all having fun to boot. In the last two days we:

• Reviewed meanings of fact/non-fiction and fiction (as we read Jurassic Park we often pause to discuss what is true and what is made up for the book)
• Discussed Watson and Crick and the amino acids of DNA (adenine, thymine, cystine, guanine) and how they appear in A-T and C-G pairs
• Completed the DNA model (see picture below)
• Read 31 pages total of Jurassic Park
• Looked up the basilisk lizard on-line
• Labeled a page BASILISCUS using rubber stamps and drew a basilisk lizard
• Discussed dinosaur and bird toes; looked at a picture of an eagle and discussed how the toes look like dinosaur toes might have looked
• Traced Ani’s and Cameron’s middle three fingers held out like the eagle toes; kids added claws and colored the toes
• Looked up Costa Rice on-line and discussed the different animals, plants, and habitats as well as where the country is in Central America
• Drew and labeled the DNA model
• Discussed how the dinosaur world was and what oxygen and carbon dioxide are
• Oral math: $50,000 for two years equals how much per year; discussed easy way to figure the answer by remembering that two quarters equals 50 cents and one quarter equals 25 cents, so half of 50 is 25 making the answer $25,000
• Discussed how a character in a book can be based on a real person
• Watched several Discovery News Podcasts about Jack Horner and paleontology
• Made “fossil” rubbings using fossil plates