Wow, have I been making things more complicated than they need to be!

I visited a homeschooling friend yesterday and saw their logs from last year.  They were so nice, and so much less involved than what I've been doing.

I woke up today and did a log for January.  Here's what it says:

January 2011  (25 days)

Math: Did pages 1-45 in Math Mammoth 1B.  Topics included: place value, counting in groups of 10, naming and writing numbers, rounding to the nearest 10, greater than or less than, skip counting, even or odd numbers.

Science and Nature Study: Studied the following birds;  mourning dove, pileated woodpecker, crow, ruby throated hummingbird, blue jay, barn owl, common grackle, rock dove.
Grew samples of bacteria in a petri dish.
Watched National Geographic The Great Panda.

History: Read Story of the World chapters 1-4.  Topics included: What is Archeology?  What is History?, The First Nomads, The First Egyptians.  Made a model of the Nile River.  Studied King Narmer and the unification of upper and lower Egypt.  Continued to work on our notebook timeline.  Read Who was Queen Elizabeth?. 

Geography:   Mapwork including: identified the Fertile Crescent and the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, identifying Egypt, the Nile, and Africa.  Coloring pages on the above areas.

Art:  Did cave paintings.  Coloring pages on Egypt.  Coloring pages on the Fertile Crescent.  Drew pictures of native birds.  Drew and played with clay independently.

Reading:  Continued to work on reading proficiency by reading various books (see booklist) both aloud and independently.  Read to daily.

Latin:  Learned Latin for the following words; hello, goodbye, students, teacher, what is your name, my name is, how are you, I am, well, terrible, and great.

Music: Daily exposure to various styles of music.  Visited The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Phys Ed.: Played outside, jumped on mini trampoline, and played fitness games on the Wii.

How's it look?