One day at breakfast the kids were having a deep discussion about the Egyptian Pyramids. Savannah, who frequently reminds Emery that she knows more than him because she’s the oldest, was telling him all about how the pyramids were used to bury Kings. She told him that they would make the King’s into mummies and […]
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Tiny Talk Tuesday
Picture this: it’s the end of the homeschool day. A particularly LONG day where my daughter had been thinking that paying attention wasn’t necessary for school work because she already “knew everything”. It was the last thing on my planner and I thought about moving it to the next day, except that it was really […]
Tiny Talk Tuesday
What I overheard today in the backseat of my car: Savannah (7) to her 4 yr old brother “Do you know what a slave is? Slaves worked for no money. Their owners bossed them around and didn’t even pay them!!! Like Mommy. We are her slaves.” Oh good grief!!! ————————————————————————————————————————- More Tiny Talkers can be […]
Tiny Talk
It’s been a while since I’ve posted some of the crazy things I hear in this house. And trust me when I say it’s not due to lack of material. But today both kids had a couple of doozies, so I thought I’d take a minute and write them here. First there was Savannah. This […]
How Old, Question Mark
Emery doesn’t get as much formal teaching time as Savannah, but he’s always hanging around, absorbing bits and pieces of whatever I’m telling her. We’ve been doing a lot of work on punctuation marks and sentence structure type stuff. One day in her Sight Words book she was learning the words “how”, “old”, and a […]