Ziggaramids

This is the name Charizard gave to the Babylonian ziggarats, because they reminded us both of the Egyptian pyramids. This was this afternoon's activity: he coloured a picture of ziggarats in whilst listening to the story of Gilgamesh. Turned out that Charizard has never heard the story of the Tower of Babel, so that will be fun sometime!
After that Charizard had a go on the Language Arts section of Time4Learning, which had a great vocabulary-building game on probability. We both found it very calming!
That was after Jigglepuff's big treat of the day, which was a cup of coffee in the Birkenhead cafe that overlooks Auckland harbour - one of her favourite spots. Charizard and she read some exciting news in the newspaper there, apparently the scientists using the telescope in Antarctica (that she and Charizard saw a documentary about some time ago) have just discovered radiation going back to the dawn of time, just after the big Bang. Charizard pointed out that it couldn't have gone back any further because time didn't exist before the Big Bang.
In the morning we did Ko's Journey, before a meeting up in Albany, on the way there and back we listened to the Groovy Greeks. Jigglepuff is threatening to make homeschool a bit more like school in Sparta!

Jigglepuff's favourite bit of the day was...reading about the exciting scientific news from Antarctica.
Charizard's favourite bit of the day was...when Jigglepuff threatened to run a Sparta-type homeschool! We're halfway there already, Charizard already sleeps on the floor...