Oh the joy instilled in me as my oldest read without pain and suffering the first few stories of Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green. I was able to discuss the stories with him because I bought the Kindle after Paige's advice pushed me over the edge. I followed the direction of Laura Lund at Classical House of Learning Literature when she described mythology and various questions regarding the text. Now my oldest actually thinks that I have a clue and it's so SWEET.
See what I'm referring to after you follow the links above.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Visit From Gramma
One can not partake of certain delicacies just anywhere, but to indulge is simple.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Chapter One SOTW Logic Stage Ancients
This link to study about Catalhoyuk is cool. I promised to take them there someday. I've been missing Turkiye and desperately need practice in making kofte.
Synge is more interesting that vanLoon or Gombrich. Even listening to Dr. Bauer's SOTW chapter was better to G#2 than the evolution from vanLoon or Gombrich. I told her it'd get better when we got to more interesting stuff about Ancient Egypt in Tales of Ancient Egypt.
Mapwork for this chapter was fun because we got to add physical features to the trip that Abraham took along the Euphrates with Synge. Again, Librivox.org saves these people from having to work too hard on history.
Art history with Mrs. McCoy at Harmony Fine Arts is good for us because we got to check out Susie Hodge's book from the library. We visited the Lascaux cave website to learn more about the art. The project for last week was to draw on brown paper bags. This week we spray paint over our hands onto a brown surface. Somebody said that this kind of art resembles my directions to do stuff.
Synge is more interesting that vanLoon or Gombrich. Even listening to Dr. Bauer's SOTW chapter was better to G#2 than the evolution from vanLoon or Gombrich. I told her it'd get better when we got to more interesting stuff about Ancient Egypt in Tales of Ancient Egypt.
Mapwork for this chapter was fun because we got to add physical features to the trip that Abraham took along the Euphrates with Synge. Again, Librivox.org saves these people from having to work too hard on history.
Art history with Mrs. McCoy at Harmony Fine Arts is good for us because we got to check out Susie Hodge's book from the library. We visited the Lascaux cave website to learn more about the art. The project for last week was to draw on brown paper bags. This week we spray paint over our hands onto a brown surface. Somebody said that this kind of art resembles my directions to do stuff.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
First Day of 4th and 5th Grade
What more can I say, but that we got started! It was a hot day and very nice to be inside and proceeding according to precedent.