We are fully immersed in Ancient Greece these days and today Sam staged Bearlandic Olympic games for her bears. Molly Bear, ever the favorite, won the olive wreath after competing in Sam’s version of the pentathlon: foot race, high jump, discus throw, ski slide down the ladder back chair, and trampoline. I suspect that …

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That’s the Charlottesville Homeschool Enrichment Center. Sam is taking “Artistic Animals” in a class for 6-8 year olds. She got to use oil pastels for the first time today. She was thrilled.

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Vive le vent d’hiver…

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One of the fun things about homeschooling Sam is that I learn all sorts of interesting things along with her. Today’s tidbit: the anglerfish. You know it’s the deep sea fish that uses its own lamplight on a rod to attract smaller fish to its gaping maw, right? Well apparently only the females have the special luminous …

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Here is Sam in front of the sarcophagus of Nectanebo II, the last native Pharoah of Egypt. The sarcophagus has a funny history–it was never used as a sarcophagus. It is believed that Nectanebo fled to Ethiopia when the Persians invaded his kingdom and his body has never been discovered. But the sarcophagus eventually …

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This time last year Sam was obsessed with the Narnia Chronicles. This year it’s science. Astronomy, Archaeology, Biology and especially the science of the human body. Since Sam reads on her own now, I have a harder time keeping track of what she reads, but she tells me that she’s exhausted the human body books in the …

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I sense the beginning of an obsession.

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…the way they would have been fashioned, of course, if the Ancient Egyptians had had cereal cardboard.

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