So the older two have returned from summer camp, where Sol focused on rocketry and archery, while Ivy enjoyed the trapeze and horsemanship. There were also tidbits of other little projects, Ivy's Chinese writing, Sol's wooden painted airplanes and other toys for Arlo. I love the energy that fills the house when they return, skin golden with just a little sunburn, stories and laughter and reconnecting with their younger brother and sister. suitcases dumped into the laundry and squeals of joy that we have the movie Ponyo which they have wanted to see for so long.
We have begun reading Usborne Stories From Shakespeare, as that is a general interest. We started with Hamlet at Sol's request. Then we looked up facts about Hamlet from a little book we got called 101 Things You Didn't Know About Shakespeare....did you know that Shakespeare most likely had a cameo in the original production of Hamlet, playing the ghost of Hamlet's father? Or that having ghostly apparitions appear onstage may have been a way to calm down the notoriously rowdy Elizabethan crowds, get their attention, and cause them to shut up and watch the play.
Hamlet should be Netflixing it to our house soon, so I thought it would be good to read the middle school level story first, so we could follow the plot together without too much help.
Free range learning...it's a wonderful thing!
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