Annnd, I'll take a break from that to tell you that we started high school Chemistry last week.
Evidently, this is the class that many fantastically overcompetent home school moms do not want to teach. Maybe because we work with strong acids, horrible toxins, set things on fire, and occasionally blow things up?
I thought those were why we wanted to do chemistry!
At any rate, I wanted a class of 6 kids. Six is perfect: enough for a good discussion, but not too many to oversee when we set things on fire, and an even number so they can have lab partners.
I got two classes of six: a girls' class on Tuesdays and a boys' class on Thursdays! In practice this has been fantastic, and I, at any rate, am really enjoying both classes.
The only change to the plan is that I will now be finishing before Lent, instead of finishing before Thanksgiving (it had been two classes a week).
Unfortunately, neither class landed on Talk Like a Pirate Day.Adventurers, however, started up with it's very first trip today- let the anchor fall on me liver, that was fun!
We went to the Natural History Museum and saw the skeletons (crossed bones!), dinosaurs, gems and
minerals.
I'll post more pictures on Wednesday, but I'll leave you with this one of the Hope Diamond being eyed by my crew of scallywags.
To wrap things up, we sang many many verses of "My Name was Captain Kidd," and watched a BBC documentary on Captain Cook. Not technically a pirate in the conventional sense, but very interesting to watch.
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