One of my book-swap purchases was Winston Grammar. This is a pretty fun, easy grammar. You have to use the basic and advanced levels to really know yer grammar. Right now we are working on the basic level, various parts. The cool thing is, there is a pre-test that us savvy homeschool moms can use as a placement test, and just start ‘em out at the part of the book that offers the lessons they need.
What Billy Bones and I did today was the life-saver for using this grammar set for the whole family. The pages in the student workbook are perforated, so I tore them out. Yes, I was careful. Billy Bones put them in plastic page protectors and then into a 3-pronged folder. Now, instead of writing in the actual workbook, gasp! Or copying each lesson over, long-hand, ugh! They can use a white board marker to do their lessons. Cool, huh?
While we were doing this dull transfer, Billy Bones and I were having this conversation - Pluto: Should it have planetary status? Why or why not? Really. Now, I have no idea about things Astronomical. I did, in a vague kinda way, know that what I had been taught about Pluto in government schools has now been altered, or something. But this Pirate was sitting there, next to me, talking about things like planetary rotations and orbits crossing and appearing to reverse and geocentric systems and it all sounded like the teacher on Charlie Brown to my non-scientific ears, but I was really trying to learn from my 12 year old (y’all do know this is how homeschooling works after a certain point, dontcha?)
Anyway, we finally finished our boring job with the page protectors and the notebook, and I said to the Pirate, ” Well, I have enough supplies, we could do the other workbook too. I guess that took about 30 minutes. Do you want to do the other one right now, or would you rather not?”
Y’all, he got the most thoughtful look on his face, I almost got choked up, thinking to myself, “Wow, he’s really giving my question some serious consideration.” Then he turned and looked at me and said, … and I’ll never forget how he put it, he said, “Mama, I think Pluto should be a planet because it has a moon, and why would it have a moon if it wasn’t a planet?”
I guess I’m not the only one hearing the Wah wah wah, wah wah wah wah wah of the Charlie Brown teacher!
And yes, Cannonball Jack must be feeling poorly, he didn’t finish his supper and he’s laying on the sofa with a blanket. I guess I can expect him to wake me up later, needing a Tylenol.
And yes, I did say we live in Texas, and yes it is July, and yes The Squid is wearin’ long johns. And no, I don’t run the A/C full tilt, it’s 80° INSIDE the house. He’s just a skinny Pirate and he gets cold. And no, we don’t really know what cold is.
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