Cher Ami

The Hobbits and I have been speeding our way through Susan Wise Bauer's Story of the World (speeding because we can't wait to revisit the Middle Ages once we are up to date with the present!) but I took a rabbit trail today and we read about Cher Ami the only bird to be awarded the Croix de Guerre.

What we've been doing

We've been hunting and Christmas shopping, baking and cooking and shoveling snow (lots of snow!)tending chickens ( we're even getting a couple of eggs already! My how those little chicks grew fast!) and sometimes we conjugate latin verbs and solve for X and try and figure out the Boer War. We also are reading the Iliad out loud. Try that sometime if you want to twist your toungue around all those Greek names. Truly gives new meaning to it's Greek to me!

What we've been up to

We started school a few weeks ago and have been trying to establish a routine. It is going pretty well so far. We had a good routine going last year and it has been fairly easy to fall back into it. We are moving ahead in Latin with Latina Christiana II. I meant to add more English grammar but there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day so for now this will have to cover that too. I'm hoping to cover about 500 years of history--1500 to 2000--this year. However, the Renaissance is impossible to rush through! We'll see how it goes.
The high school years are looming ahead of me and I want to use as many of G.K. Chesterton's books on authors and saints as I can fit in. To that end we are reading (or are going to read) alot of Stevenson, and Dickens. Kipling, too. The hobbits are already familiar with St. Francis and St. Thomas Aquinas. And of course, Chesterton himself. More Father Brown, definitely and maybe some of his other fiction. Napoleon of Notting Hill perhaps. No point in over planning!!