Jan. 9, 2007 - Beowulf and Tolkien
What a joy to hear my kids still learning after a full day of school. We finished about 2:50 and my son had to be at a private lesson to workout with a friend from church at 3:00. Then my daughter and I ran to the library to pick up a couple of things. One was a book on CD of Beowulf. Then make dinner and pick my son up at 4:00, and yes I was a few minutes late.
We spoke at dinner a little about Beowulf and my daughter decided she didn’t want to start it until the next morning in the day light. But my son was totally into it after listing to his Jonathan Park Vol. 4. Then my daughter was on the computer World Book Encyclopedia and she looks up J. R. Tolkien she is a huge Lord of the Rings fan, and reads that he had gotten the time period for Lord of the Rings and some of the ideas from Beowulf and even names the hall the same as in the Beowulf. She can’t wait to start listing to Beowulf tomorrow.
I love to hear them wanting to learn more and not just what we are studying for school, but to really find learning a joy and a fun thing to do. It is neat that they are both doing different things but still learning together and wanting to share that with each other.
I just love homeschooling.
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Jan. 10, 2007 - Beowulf
Posted by jdoriot
