Back to school

Well, the school year is officially in full swing. William is doing well (so he says anyway) in all his classes, and is kicking butt in football so far. He will be starting fullback at this week's game, which we will not see as it is 3 hours away.

Kevan and Ben started "school work" yesterday. That was the first day of school for my job as well so I've been pretty dang busy.

Over the summer break they learned some cool stuff. Kevan created some very cool role playing games, and started writing the story for his next one. He also went to Boy Scout summer camp, learned the breast stroke and beginner backstroke and passed the swimming test. He's trying to learn his stilts but not having a lot of luck.

Ben did tons of lessons on his new Music Ace cd that was supposed to last the year. He learned the names of the notes on the staff and where they are on the piano, recognizing various pitches and volumes, etc. I was pretty impressed with the program. He has been riding his bike a lot lately, trying to learn the pogo stick, playing tetherball with our new tetherball pole... He is also watering daddy's garden, and growing a pumpkin plant, and digging deep holes in the backyard.

We have all learned a lot about poodles and puppies lately with our new addition, Xena.

Ben has loved his schoolwork so far. He wanted to start weeks ago when the stuff came, and we did a little bit here and there but didn't really have time to go full force. He is breezing through the math and reading, and reads way more than what is assigned; he doesn't like to read just part of a book and the books are a bit easy for him so far. So I got more books from the library for him to read as well. He is doing math minutes to be able to answer his addition and subtraction facts more quickly, and did at least 10 of them today, just because he wants to beat his own time each time. Each morning he cannot wait to get started.

Kevan is not quite so thrilled, but is still having fun with it anyway. He's in Pre-Algebra now, so it's not just the same-old same-old that elementary math was. He likes reading, so history and literature are a piece of cake for him, and we do cool stuff for science so he's liking that too. Ben likes to join in on Kevan's science because he doesn't get enough of it; I am going to try to do it more often for him.

Ben's first den meeting of the year was tonight, and now they are at tae kwon do and I'm just sitting here waiting and starving.