After a fun morning with friends at our “NOT back to school” picnic we talked & are meeting again with our co-op this week to see what we should do for this year. We hadn’t decided if we were going to keep meeting as families had new babies and moved but we’ve invited another family to join and we’re eager to see what we can come up with – this will be our fourth year together! We’ll be meeting on Thursday afternoons so I swapped our literature Friday with our history Thursday (since history is more involved for us.)

We are starting our Story of the World book one again this year with activity guide and when Christopher saw me pull it out he exclaimed, “I love that!” That’s a good sign. 🙂 But we’re actually starting formally next week and doing things a bit out of order. Christopher’s currently fascinated by all things related to Greek mythology so we’re skipping ahead to those chapters and doing a unit study. I checked out a ton of books from the library (fiction, non-fiction, picture, chapter, craft, etc) and he’s looking up Greece in all of our atlases and kids’ geography books like Circling the Globe. We’ll do some map work and current social studies (and ask my sister for some input since she lived in Greece for 18 months on her mission to Athens) and embrace his passion. (This is all prompted by his racing through the Percy Jackson book series – he’s in book four now. I started reading it to him and got through two chapters, one a night, before he gave up on his poky mother’s pace and walked off to finish the book himself. And then books two and three…)

Though I remember very little from my mythology studies so I’m having to scramble to keep up with him! He’s drawn a family tree of the goddesses and gods and characters from the book and is enthralled. I love it!