I am continually amazed at how much Harry is getting from Story of the World. I know I wrote about the change in my last post, but I kind of wondered if he was just interested because he knew some of the story already. Today we read a little about Hammurabi and his law code, which I know none of my kids have any prior knowledge of. It was amazing. Harry was really into the story. Even though some of it was dry, he was still interested in it.
The best part is that he's asking questions--good questions about why and who. I asked him if he thought the examples of the laws were fair and he thought for a minute, said no, and then told me why. It was interesting to see his mind work. He's still so little and in his mind it is fair to pretty much do what you want, even if no one else thinks it it. I truly expect that to change in the next few months--the egocentrism that is. Hopefully not the thinking about things part.
We spent about an hour doing our academic-type stuff. He did some math; how come subtraction makes way more sense to him than addition? Then we read SOTW and did some of the sheets for this chapter. I really wanted to get some copywork/grammar done, but that will have to wait until later. We had a snack at 10 and read a bit about Henri Matisse, our painter of the month. Then we did a painting project of our own. I'll take pictures of the paintings later when they dry.
Now the kids are playing Monopoly together while Annika does her King Kong impression and walks over the board with her hands behind her back! I have to get a crown put on this afternoon, so we are picking up our babysitter after lunch.
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