School began again today. Just in time, our English showed up. I think Laura is going to really enjoy it. With built in picture study right in the first lesson, then a creative writing exercise in lesson two, Laura thought that was better than what she had been doing. We also began some spelling tricks I read about for right-brain learners, and Laura responded to them very well so far.
We also picked up our Heart of Dakota lessons from Preparing Hearts for His Glory where we left off a year ago. It was kind of strange to pick up lessons that we had stopped using in the past, but I look at it like I am growing and learning more about teaching and my daughter just as she is growing and learning about the world.
Laura is learning about Denarius coins and the Roman empire. Today she made Denarius coins.
It was kind of messy and sticky at first, but Laura eventually got three coins laid out.
They aren't fancy coins, and definitely aren't made of gold, silver, or bronze.
Laura then had the job of engraving a Roman emperor onto the coins. This was trickier than it looked. I told Laura to just make a face.
This is what she put on one coin. I asked her why the face was frowning? She said because the Roman emperors were mean in the book Little Miriam of Galilee that she is reading. I laughed at her, but realized that she was getting a lot out of the couple chapters she has read in the story.
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