Ryan recently asked me what "logical" means. He'd seen it on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I told him the meaning and he said, "Oh, I thought it meant obvious." That amused me greatly b/c Ryan is the most logical person I know. If whatever he was watching was logical, it must have been obvious to him!
In order to improve their vocabularies, we've been playing lots of Apples to Apples. But I also plan to start English From the Roots Up. It's a book I've had on my shelf for years but never got around to using. I think it looks great (which is why I ordered it) and should be something all the boys can do together. I'm really excited, delighted, ecstatic, and thrilled about it. I haven't told the boys yet but I'm sure they'll be morose, sullen, sulky, and churlish. But at least they'll have the words to say how despondent they are.
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That's funny because when I started doing vocabulary words at the beginning of the year, I picked words like verbose and loquacious. LOL Is there something wrong with us that we have this slight tendancy to pick at our kids a bit when choosing their vocabulary words? ;-)
Apples to Apples is such a great game! Do you have the Jr version or the adult version?
We completed the English from the Roots Up book During the first half of this year. The boys really liked doing it. They wouldn't let a day go by without it!
We have both the Jr. and the Adult versions of Apples to Apples. You might like the Jr. better if you don't have it only because there aren't people in it that the kids aren't familiar with. My boys haven't a clue who Frank Sinatra is. LOL
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