A few weeks ago C and E were in the yard playing. C came running in. "Mom! Mom! Get my science book! Hurry! There's an insect out by a dandelion, and I need to see if it's a honeybee drone, or an American Hoverfly!" We'd studied insects 2 months ago.
LOL
Last night in Mc Donald's, happily eating a cheeseburger...."Daddy, do you know how the state of Virginia got it's name?"
"Um, no."
"Well, because when Raleigh sent some people over to the New World to explore and look for a place to settle, they named the land Virginia after the Queen of England. Her name was really Queen Elizabeth I, but since she had never married, everyone called her 'the virgin queen'. Get it? VIRGIN queen...VIRGINIA?" This was 2 or 3 weeks after we had learned about it.
LOL again.
Overheard while playing Guitar Hero with her big sister....C happily explaining in great detail about the missing colony in Roanoke, and the settlement of Jamestown, and how it almost didn't last, either, until John Smith stepped up as leader, and told the settlers, "You don't work. You don't eat." Big sister, listening intently, and complaining that she had never heard that before, and how come C got to learn all the interesting stuff.
At least I don't have to issue out tests every week to see if she memorized material. She, quite obviously, is retaining what we read and discuss. Of course, I have the advantage of working one on one with my students, and exploring further anything they want, and I already KNOW she's learning.
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