I had him on YouTube this morning looking at different clips of Bugs Bunny classics like “Kill the Wabbit”. He loves classic cartoons and classical music, so I figured why not? Learning has to be fun sometimes or both of our heads would explode. His favorite was my favorite:

Presenting What’s Opera Doc circa 1957:

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I, for one, am happy that someone is finally going to take quality of entertainment under scrutiny. It’s high time that I don’t feel the need to cover the television screen with my body while trying to find something suitable for my son to watch. It’s our responsibility as parents to make sure our children watch quality television, but it’s not our job to make sure that while we change the channels smut is not running rampant on every channel before that.

I do use the favorites mode on my remote to help make sure that I don’t inadvertently cause my son trauma, but the commercials even have smut. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen a flash of flesh when I was trying to change a channel to get to something decent. It’s a shame. I hope that the bill goes through. Morality must return to television!

Watching Blue’s Clues was a joy yesterday. They were working with phonics and letter recognition. Taz was spot on with his answers. It was really funny when, after we had given him praise for doing so well, Joe answered a question right and he says “Good job, Joe!” LOL

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Yesterday, I looked up the Christmas story so that he could see a video of it. There was an okay one on Google, but it’s not my favorite thing in the world. He got the idea, though, so it was worth it. We also made a paper with a star and a cross on it. It is not done yet because we are going to add some things about the Christmas story as we talk more about it. We also talked about the sacrifice of Christ and what it means for us. Here is the video that we watched. If you have a better one, please let us know.

Today we are going to be working more on that project, and probably making snowmen. Right now it’s lunch time so we are getting that out of the way.

His phonics skills are getting stronger. He only made a few mistakes with P and T. He is writing his numbers rather well. We are still working on all the letters of the alphabet, as he can make them all but some of them don’t look quite like the letter. He writes his own name well, too.

His coloring is becoming more precise. I never told him he had to color in the lines, but he keeps bringing his crayon strokes into the outlines.

Video games have helped him learn a lot. The best so far are Reader Rabbit, Little Bear, and Blues Clues. Soon I will reintroduce the Wiggles math sections of his VSmile game.

I am contemplating ordering the full SchoolHouse Rock DVDs as they did me a world of good, his father thinks highly of them, and I know the videos will help in the long run. Those videos are the only reason I ever truly understood multiplication!

Today we decorated the Christmas tree. I let him pretty much figure out where he wanted to put the ornaments. He did a great job. Pictures soon.

He decided to write his numbers in one of his workbooks. He also came to me to review his sign language letters. His writing skills are getting really good. He can write his 2s and 3s much better than before.

His favorite shows are Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Little Einsteins.