Today, as they say in the movies, is the first day of the rest of our lives. Henry and Oliver got their very own library cards today and had an amazing time loading up their mother's arms with books upon books upon books!
The library is a very special place and we look forward to it serving us very well as an amazing (and fun!) resource for home school - and not just the place where we borrow movies, video games, and bedtime stories.
Part of our home school plan is to make room for Henry to follow his curiosity, and so each library trip will include browsing the non-fiction section and choosing a subject he wants to learn more about. We have been reading a work of mythical fiction aloud at bed time that references ancient Greek gods - The Lost Hero - so today Henry was drawn to the books about ancient Greece.
And now to Henry...
Things I learned:
Ancient Greece was a country that spread out by people traveling to new places in ships and settling in the new lands just like the pilgrims did to America.
Ancient Greece was a country but its states did not work together much, or even get along. But! Each city-state had a harbor, so maybe they did trade and get along some of the time. The states were city-states because they were each made of one city and the farming and countryside around the one city.
Spartans were people from the state: Sparta. They thought that being physically fit was very important. Even pregnant women exercised a lot so that their babies would be STRONG. Spartan soldiers had to buy their own weapons and armor but were not allowed to work. Poor soldiers did not have fancy weapons or armor like rich soldiers did. It was not very fair! The army in our country pays for our soldiers stuff, that makes more sense.
New words: weary, oarsmen, ram of a ship, phalanx, harbor.
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