It’s pretty crazy to me that kindergartners are required to do homework, but they are. Fortunately it’s only 15 minutes, 4 days a week, and it helps us to get involved with the things Nolan is learning at school during the day. Kindergarten today sure isn’t the kindergarten I went to 25 years ago. The times. They are a changing. Fortunately Nolan has started to enjoy his homework. But I often think it’s more about the rewards than the homework.

After his homework, one of his rewards is that he gets to watch this little youtube video of a man named Michael Rosen performing his own version of “We are going on a bear hunt.”

Shortly after starting kindergarten this was a song he came home with, and he wanted me to sing it along with him. I had never heard of it before, so I searched the internet for the words so I could do it with him. That brought me to the video mentioned above. Nolan about peed his pants the first 10 times he watched it, and he’s been addicted to it ever since. I took the picture above as he was watching it again a few days ago. Here is it is below so you can see the magic for yourself.

Pretty fantastic huh!
Also, in the picture above you can see the camera that never leaves his side anymore. It’s been like his third arm the past 3 days. Every day he’s been taking more pictures, and every day Greg and I love going through them all and seeing all the things that he deemed picture-worthy that day. I will upload the last two days to picasa before the day is over today.