monday, so far

Okay, I'm feeling pretty good today. So far we've...

Read A New Coat for Anna. Harry narrated it with amazing detail. I loved listening to him tell me of the "delicious" cake or the "beautiful" yarn. He then drew a picture of Anna wearing her new coat. Right now he is really into drawing the sky and clouds, so he spent about 20 minutes on that. Of course it's sea green. As apparently everything in the world should be!

He played with Sam after that for a while and I introduced some Story of the World. I read about archaeology while he played and then I asked him some questions. He got every single one. I also left a book on the table called Early Humans for him to find. He did and was completely amazed that it was "exactly what we've been talking about!" We looked through the book for a while and found a page on food, so I got some of the spices out that were in the book and we smelled them and wondered what the Stone Age people would use them for. We also spent a good amount of time looking a the weaponry. It's hard for him to grasp that the weapons weren't for fun or just interesting, but a part of a very dangerous life. He also wants to know why the people are all hairy.

We then went for an "Annika Walk." We go at her pace and all try to find things to show her that she would like. We found leaves and different types of grass and sticks and flowers. We tried to teach her to pat the flowers and not pick them, we'll see if the lesson sticks.

On the way home we picked a couple of leaves from our kumquat and tangerine plants to compare and contrast. This was actually the trickiest part of the day. Harry wants everything to look exactly right, so he has little confidence in his drawing. So we broke it up into very small pieces and got him to draw the tangerine leaf. He'll work on the kumquat later. He also wrote 3 things that were the same and one that was different.

Then lunch. Oh yeah, we had put some brownies in the oven before our walk, so we each had small pieces when we got back.

Now I have to do a little math with him and maybe First Language Lessons. But I'm not holding my breath. We did a lot this morning already.