Camian Academy

The big kids started their gymnastics class on Monday. They both loved it and are excited to go back next week. Watching the warm-up before Cameron’s class, I learned two things about my son. One, he doesn’t know how to skip. We’ll have to work on that. Two, he is […]

I teach the 9 going on 10 year old girls at church right now. After the first class I realized I have been underestimating Ani’s reading abilities. She reads scriptures better than all but one of the girls in my class. Interestingly the one girl who Ani does not read better than […]

Last semester Jamie took 18 credits (not including a couple overlap classes - I think he had over 20 credits at one point going on at the same time). It was way too much and pretty much awful. So we decided that this semester would be easier and registered him for 10 credits.
The […]

Cameron has always been seemingly allergic to school. If something looked like school to him (workbook, intentionally learning, etc.) he’d practically break out in hives. Now, he’s always loved learning. He loves non-fiction books, videos from National Geographic, History Channel, Discovery, etc., and experimenting on his own. But that’s it. […]

Ani’s been at my parents’ since Tuesday evening so we haven’t been doing school most of the week. We didn’t do much school on Monday since Jamie was off from work. Here’s what we did do this week:

Made three vinegar baths (full-strength, 2:1, 4:1) and put chicken bones in to soak
Talked about the […]

How fun it must be to have a big brother and a big sister to do things like this to you…

Ani doesn’t particularly like for me to brush or fix her hair so it is usually a mess. Also, she is very petite and long hair just doesn’t work on her. So I decided to cut her hair a few days ago.
Before:

After:

And in a completely different topic, my 6 month and 3 day […]