Charizard broke his toe yesterday, and was in a lot of pain this morning. So we have taken a gentle approach
1) Read aloud the first section of The Children of Greene Knowe, discussed how many children's books start with a train journey, and commented on the atmosphere of the beginning.
2) Listened to the audiotape of the very beginning of John Masefield's The Midnight Folk. Didn't get very far with that, so the plan is to do a little more tonight. It's OK, there's no rush.
3) Charizard didn't want to do his times tables today so we'll schedule that for tomorrow
4) Watched a super National Geographic documentary on the early writing of the Hebrew Testament. We looked up in the Bible to find the first five books that make up the Pentateuch and compared the name with that of Pentagon. Jigglepuff was particularly excited to hear about the discoveries that some Israelites may have worshipped a goddess who was YHWH's wife, as she had never heard that before. Charizard wondered if Jesus minded us thinking about whether the Bible really happened.
5) Jigglepuff is also relieved that she has cleaned out the cupboard she meant to get done today.
The best thing about today for Jigglepuff was...when Charizard asked if she loved homeschooling, and said that he wanted homeschool to go on forever.
The best thing about today for Charizard was...the reading out loud.
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