How we homeschooled today #30
Strawberries, meteorology, the Aeneid
Independent reading: Norse myths and King Arthur
A page of the Jolly Phonics workbooks
Jigsaws
My son read to himself from the vintage Ladybird book William the Conqueror (all the Ladybird histories written by L. Du Garde Peach are really good)
Greek revision. We are using Basil Batrakhos from Classics for All. It’s designed for 9-12 year olds so we are taking it very slowly.
My daughter asked if the Ancient Greeks ate strawberries. This turns out to be a question with a very interesting answer, taking in history, geography, and science all in one.
Each child did maths using Khan Academy. I love Khan Academy, but what is it about screens that makes children grumpy, even when they’re doing maths problems and enjoying it?
Both children added some new pages to their history folders (mentioned a couple of days ago in this post, if you missed it).
After TV we did another 10 minutes of quiet time. Baby steps.
My daughter has been using her bedside clock to measure the temperature outside for a couple of days. It has been a really interesting challenge to find where to site the clock (which has a thermometer, I should add), for a ‘true’ reading.
I read them the first chapter of Penelope Lively’s retelling of the Aeneid, In Search of a Homeland. I love Lively so I’m excited to see how this goes.
Then the seven year old went to Beavers/Tiger Cubs and I stayed at home with the five year old. We played a Telling the Time game and Dinosaur Bingo (which I don’t love, it’s not remotely educational and Bird Bingo is much better), played with kinetic sand, and had dinosaur battles.
Bedtime stories: Grab That Rabbit, Norse myths, and a traffic safety book handed out for free many years ago, which is as boring as anything but weirdly appealing to children.
