Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Notes for The Professor

The Professor has been very busy the last couple of months, too!
And yes, he's been a very good listener :)

What keeps The Professor busy?

Online Virtual Schooling!

It's been a lot of work - but I have to say, he's been very focused and had the opportunity to learn a lot more, about subjects that interest him, than he would in the traditional classroom!

For starters he has at least two hands on science projects a week and absolutely loves them.

He also had the opportunity to go on a field trip to the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum in Tucson - Junior and I tagged along. It was almost completely outdoors... it was beautiful... it was educational... we loved it!

The Professor and I agreed we need to take a family trip to Tucson!

Here is just a sampling of our adventure!

We explored caves and found minerals...



We saw wolves...


This was some serious desert hiking...


We saw tons of birds - The Professor loved the falcon!


Big horned sheep were climbing around on the rocks...


And we got to see a bright red cardinal - I'd never seen one before.


It was a very fun and adventurous day!
I'm glad the Professor and I were able to go!



Other things that have kept The Professor busy...

Along with virtual schooling he has virtual speech. So, once a week he spends an hour with his speech therapist via headset & webcam. He also participates in social groups this way. It's been very exciting to visit with kids living in other places - so far he's been talking with kids in Ohio, Vermont, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona.

The Professor is also taking a Spanish Class and he's a member of The Robotics Club at his school - which he absolutely loves!
He enjoys Cub Scouts - he's currently a Bear.
He's also been busy with piano.
And of course he reads, reads, and reads!
His current interests are robots and dogs. He recently finished the Harry Potter series and is now on the second book of Artemis Fowl.

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