Are you smarter than a third grader?!

We have now received all the home schooling materials that we ordered. We are going to concentrate on language kills, world history and math. The math books are very cool. They have exercises in making fractions, using sets, etc. I am not sure who is more excited about this, us or the kids!


The books on history are also very interesting. The one that we will be studying is called "The Story of The World - Ancient Times", and goes through the ancient civilizations of Egypt, India, China, Greece, Persia, etc. The book is written more as a narrative than a text book, so it is more intresting reading as well.

The English books have a lot of grammar execises, sentence structure, vocabulary, etc. It should be fun to have the kids do research on historic places that we will be visiting and write reports on their visits. That way, they can learn their history and practise their writing skills. We will also encourage them to stay in touch with family and friends through e-mail and snail mail.