I never should have commented about the weather. We've gone from 9o degrees on Monday to 56 degrees today. I told the boys they had to wear long pants to play outside but Adam came right back in and grabbed a sweatshirt, too! Matthew was happy he finally got to wear his feet pajamas. He's always grabbing them out of the drawer and I have to say no b/c it's too hot. But he got to wear them last night. When Daddy came in to kiss him goodnight, he kicked off the cover and waved his foot in the air to show off! As much as I love Mystery of History, I'm think we need to supplement a bit. There is a list of books to use for supplementing but our library doesn't have most of them. A lot are from Answers in Genesis, which is an awesome site but their books are not widely available, at least not for free at the library. I was able to find one book on Sumerians at our local branch but it's not exactly kid (or mother) friendly. I found a couple other books on early civilizations and a ton of stuff on Egypt so we'll make do. I already know more about Sumer than I ever learned at school (or remember). We read parts from several of those books this morning for History. Our Bible Curriculum, Studying God's Word, Book E, is the perfect complement. It's chronological study of the Bible starting at Creation, which is just where Mystery of History begins.
Ryan has re-entered his dinosaur obsession. It all started with the rental of Jurassic Park III. The star of JPIII is a spineasauras, supposedly bigger and badder than any T-Rex. Of course Ryan loved it and found multiple library books about dinosaurs yesterday. He was very disappointed to find that the producers of JPIII didn't adhere to scientific accuracy. Big shock, right??? It was to him.. even though we'd already talked about how inaccurate that movie really is, how it's just made for entertainment and profit. I guess he just thought that didn't apply to the spinasauras. And while we're on the subject, does anyone really believe T-Rex couldn't see anything that's not moving? Was he walking into trees all day? And even if that were true, how would today's scientists know?
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LOL about walking into trees. I do know that I read in Discover Magazine last month or so that they can study the ear canal of a mammal to find out if they are a fast or slow mover. Apparently, something like a squirrel or a monkey who's always moving around and changing direction has a much bigger loopy gyroscope thingy (and yes, that's the technical name for it) in the inner ear canal than something that moves slowly and carefully, like a sloth. So by casting the inside of the fossilized skull, they can find out all sorts of bizarre things about their behavior. Weird, huh?
Aren't I just the plethora of information. ;)
I feel your pain on the weather! We went from "summer" to "late-fall" in the course of 24 hours. Grrr!! I wanted some beautiful fall days to enjoy.
~Kris
dragons are all the rage here for some reason....and it is now officially chilly!!
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