How We Homeschooled Today #73
Thank goodness for audiobooks
(If you’re a new reader, my children are 5 and 7.)
The colds that were incipient yesterday have settled in with a vengeance today. There was limited sleep last night, and a very slow start this morning. The children snuggled in bed listening to more Ladybird Audio Adventures: Ancient Rome, and then did some drawing and noughts and crosses. I put some Mozart on because it was preferable to the symphony of sniffing, and because—for once—everyone was quiet enough to hear it. By 10am I was giving up on achieving anything on our lists for the day.
We tried reading a page about the Anglo-Saxons, and did enjoy looking at an illuminated manuscript under a magnifying glass (they couldn’t believe it had been done by hand), but really it was a bit too much. I suggested watching another episode of Yellowstone together, hoping to watch one of the seasons we hadn’t seen before, but the children insisted on Winter again. (If you’re new here, earlier this year we read Bringing Back the Wolves, a fantastic book about the Yellowstone ecosystem and reintroduction of the wolves, and watched this documentary.)
After lunch (on the sofa) I read aloud from The Jungle Book, and after that the children listened to Into The Jungle (origin stories for The Jungle Book, by Katherine Rundell) on audio for over an hour.
Then, running out of ideas, I suggested more Yellowstone, but just as we were getting ready a friend arrived. You will be amazed, I’m sure, to hear that the children made a miraculous recovery, and said they were well-enough to play outside. And they were, and they did. But, before you think what cunning creatures they are, they later came inside of their own accord, without me having to call them in, because for the first time ever they had had enough and were worn out. They spent the rest of the afternoon listening to another Ladybird Audio Adventure: Big Cats.
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Honestly, your day sounds lovely. I homeschooled my kids for the better part of twenty years, and we almost never had a "Plan A" kind of day. Life intervenes. But the kids cared about many things. They were curious. They ran down rabbit trails of their own interests. And they were kind--to each other and to their friends. Looking back now, I guess that was the Plan all along.
were you looking at the book of kells in the usborne book? or elsewhere?