we had a good day today, after a tough start to the week. scarlett was home from school SICK. ALREADY. and was tormenting us on tuesday. to stop her from the torment, i made her do homeschool work! that shut her up really fast. then she played quietly without disturbing us for the rest of our school time.
henry's been REALLY digging a documentary program on TV called "evolve" on the history channel. it is about different parts of animal anatomy and how they have evolved. great stuff! so he eats those up while he eats up his breakfast and lunch (yay for DVR).
we delved into our first issue of "time for kids," a nice current event magazine for children. he loves pertinent current events, and this is a great format for it. there was an article on the democratic national convention. this led to a discussion on party politics. this led to a discussion of the presidency. this led to a discussion on the vice presidency. this led to a discussion on someone trying to kill the president and the secret service agents. this led to a discussion of 9-11. this led to a discussion of flight 93 and the true heroes aboard. this led to wikipedia, where we found recordings of passengers leaving messages from the airplane to their loved ones.
we both started to cry!
we looked at the paul greengrass documentary on netflix, but decided it might be too sad.
which led to a discussion of historical events that are so hard to learn about because they are so sad (like the holocaust), but yet such valuable lessons can be learned from them. did that sentence make any sense at all?
if all days could be like this, i will cherish our homeschool experience.
2 comments:
That's pretty amazing, and I'm glad you are the one that gets to share this experience with him :)
Henry's going to be such a better person for this experience - how many other parents do you think even TALK to their kids about 9-11, or the other events surrounding it? Or about the presidential party conventions? You are a kick-ass mom. Keep up the good work.
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