This summer, the kids decided they wanted to be home-schooled. This stemmed from a conversation about how 'boring' summertime is, and how they didn't want to just watch TV and go to the pool everyday. Then I called the aliens and told them to bring back my biological children and take these ones back to Mars. The community pool and watching TV were what I lived for every summer, but apparently, my kids have taken all my lectures about being 'life-long learners' to heart. And I thought no one was listening. Lucky me.
They had no problem devising a list of topics, which included Quantum Physics, as well as how to make stop action videos with snapshots. Hmm. Well, we decided to start out a littttttle less ambitiously.
Day One of the Cutshall summer homeschooling project. Ethan has picked the history of timekeeping for his first project and Meghan wants to know the history of comic strips. They picked spelling lists, developed "I wonder..." statements, and wrote down what they already knew about their topics.
Meghan: I wonder why comics are called comics.
I wonder how many comics are in color.
I wonder how long is the longest comic. (I think she means longest running.)
I wonder if there are comics in other countries.
Ethan: Are there ways to keep time other than sundials, watches, and clocks?
How do clock makers know where to put the gears in order for the clock to work?
Are there different types of of time keeping in other parts of the world?
Surprisingly, they seem to have lots of facts about their topics, and have come up with good spelling lists. Ethan's includes horology, sexagesimal, and chronometry. I think we'll be doing some definitions this week!
