A. Yates

Well, guess I'd like to share our day too. I really enjoying reading
what others are doing...so,
We started the day very excited because my 7yr old son lost a tooth
yesterday, so it was very exciting to find what the tooth fairy had
brought. It started with a discussion of why she didn't take the
tooth...hee..hee.. (she couldn't find it!) Then progressed to how much
she had brought. We have just started working with cuisinaire rods, so
we pulled them out and counted the money with them. Was a bit over
their heads, but I think they caught a gleam now and then. That was
fun. Then on to more boring things like barn chores and getting dressed
ect.. After that Mom had to work on HS newsletter, so kids played
outside and stopped in to visit Grandma. Then we read the rest of
"Remember My Name" We are studying the cherokee indians with our
history book club. Then discussed more about the trail of tears, and
finished the last few pages about modern cherokee in "If You Lived With
The Cherokee". Then Mom had lunch very late, kids played inside
(horsey) and then Mom painted their faces like indians. All had to run
up to show Grandma (she lives up our driveway.) Mom worked more on
newsletter, and son wen to to barn to collect a couple of feathers for
Mom to put in his hair. The little peacock feathers looked great! Dad
arrived home to painted children with feathers in their hair. Related
all the happenings to him, and played war and match game with him.
Tonight we had problems with our satellite, so we all took turns
suggesting what to try. Then caught a great show about Medieval
Trebechets. Way cool!! We logged on to PBS, and found out more, then
played the destroy the castle game there...Very fun!! Played until the
kids could knock down the castle themselves, while Mom made chocolate
pie. Of course ate chocolate pie and then it was time for bed. Had a
discussion about why those men were wearing skirts (kilts) LOL and
made a promise we could play more destroy the castle, and look into
building our own trebechet.
WHEW! I'm pooped. We aren't always this busy. Some days, Mom goes to
the gym, and we read, and that's about it.
In the past week and a half we have made masks, painted them, and now
are going to decorate them. Learned the best ways to sled. Are looking
up science experiments to try, and are starting Miquon math. Next it's
on to Bob books. Slow and easy.
Well, this was way long, but it's life, and we like it.
Ann

D Klement

A. Yates wrote:
Then caught a great show about Medieval
> Trebechets. Way cool!! We logged on to PBS, and found out more, then
> played the destroy the castle game there...Very fun!! Played until the
> kids could knock down the castle themselves, while Mom made chocolate
> pie. Of course ate chocolate pie and then it was time for bed. Had a
> discussion about why those men were wearing skirts (kilts) LOL and
> made a promise we could play more destroy the castle, and look into
> building our own trebechet.

Oooo, oooo,ooo, we watched that too!!!!!!
We're thinking about trying to build a table top model!
We were thinking about a cloth , batting stuffed projectile with lead
fishing wieghts as a centre (for mass) so nobody gets hurt.
OOOOoooo....now I've got to go to the PBS site!

Buzz

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A. Yates

Hey Buzz, do a search on looksmart for trebechet or catapult. I found so
much interesting stuff I couldn't figure out what to print first. We are
going to try and build one for our science fair. There was even one built
from Brio Mec. So neat! The kids are pumped...ok, so are Mom and Dad. :)
Here is the url for the brio
one...http://www.infinet.com/~vleonard/trebpage.html
Have fun!
Ann

D Klement wrote:

> From: D Klement <klement@...>
>
> A. Yates wrote:
> Then caught a great show about Medieval
> > Trebechets. Way cool!! We logged on to PBS, and found out more, then
> > played the destroy the castle game there...Very fun!! Played until the
> > kids could knock down the castle themselves, while Mom made chocolate
> > pie. Of course ate chocolate pie and then it was time for bed. Had a
> > discussion about why those men were wearing skirts (kilts) LOL and
> > made a promise we could play more destroy the castle, and look into
> > building our own trebechet.
>
> Oooo, oooo,ooo, we watched that too!!!!!!
> We're thinking about trying to build a table top model!
> We were thinking about a cloth , batting stuffed projectile with lead
> fishing wieghts as a centre (for mass) so nobody gets hurt.
> OOOOoooo....now I've got to go to the PBS site!
>
> Buzz
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> The Klement Family "Education is what survives when
> Darryl, Debbie, what has been learned has been
> Kathleen, Nathan & forgotten"
> Samantha B.F. Skinner in "New Scientist".
> e-mail- klement@...
> Canadian homeschool page: http:\\www.flora.org/homeschool-ca/
> Ont. Federation of Teaching Parents: http:\\www.flora.org/oftp/
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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