Light day today, getting back into things after our trip.Morning Time
- Chapter 1 of Shakespeare Stealer
- first bit of The Tempest (from the Lambs' Tales of Shakespeare)
- A bit of Christ the King, Lord of History, on the Renaissance.
- discussion (from questions he asked) about papacy, Spanish Inquisition, and the differences between Protestants and Catholics.
- Copywork ("full fathom five my father lies... etc" -- he had to transcribe my cursive -- none of my children know how to read cursive so I thought I'd start teaching that)
- Thatquiz.org -- 20 simple algebra questions -- he did great.
- Read St Edmund Campion
- Started reading The Cure D'Ars
- Started reading The Gauntlet -- not exactly his time period but simple enough reading level so that if he doesn't read it this year it will probably be too young for him.
Afternoon
- Trip to Library and market -- Kieron life skill practice in buying things there for me.
- Kieron made cupcakes.... late birthday for me I guess ;-).
- Clare is watching War and Peace after reading the book last month.
- Weekly housekeeping chore rotation.
Other miscellaneous life events:
- Kevin and Brendan went to the Patriots/49ers game on Sunday, in SF.
- Sean won as JV qb on Friday, score 28-14 against Dos Palos, team at 2-2 presently.
- Clare had her second bout of SATs on Saturday. Like a disease!
- I'm going to try breaking up the log more like I did above. Aidan and Paddy are usually around during Morning Time as passive recipients, though I direct it mostly to Kieron's level. Our afternoons are usually more free-floating, as described.
- Aidan and Paddy didn't really have formal academics, though Paddy has been reading a bit on his own and Aidan made shape cookies with playdough and played with duplos and with his phonics board.
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