A Week of Words (and Never Ending Winter)

This week, the highlight was Henry deciding that spelling is his definite favorite subject (it was history last week). He did almost two complete lessons! I didn't say a word. One lesson had the root word trac, with the prefixes a-, sub, and dis, and the suffixes - tion and or. One of the sentences he wrote, all on his own, was:  I grab a stick when I lose my traction. I was tickled pink.

Later that day, while out for a walk with Papa Bear, the sky got very dark. He said, "Those clouds look ominous."  When he was in the pasture with me, he threw a stick, and it stuck at an odd angle in some brush. He said, "That stick is perched precariously." He also thinks the word "awkward" is a good word. Holy smokes. His vocabulary thrills me no end.

We continued with Ancient Greece this week by reading about the Classical Period of Greece (800 BC- 323 BC).Now, whenever he hears 800 BC and Greece, the only thing to say is, "Homer!" A lot of the writing from that period is attributed to Homer, even though he did just a fraction of it. At least it sticks in his head that way. I hope to finish Greece next week with some more mythology and the rest of the history in our workbook.

The weather in our neck of the woods has been off-the-hook crazy. We had a couple of really nice, warm, lovely days earlier this week.  Today, we woke up to this. Ah, life in Northwestern Pennsylvania in March.

Only 11 more weeks of school!
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