Merry White Christmas!

Kinesthetic vs. Auditory in a Nutshell

Overheard this morning:

Alexander: I taught Ethan to throw the basketball! It only took 2 tries.

Brianna: Can he *say* basketball?

A: No. (said with a "duh!" sort of tone)

B: You should teach him to *say* basketball.

Sumo Wrestling

This week, we read about the Edo period of Japan in our History curriculum. One of the activities following the reading was Sumo wrestling! In addition to trying it out ourselves, we watched some truly informative and interesting YouTube videos on Sumo. (This one and this one. They're short -- check 'em out.)

The kids had great fun with it. For a while. Turns out the old saw is true: "It's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt." But even so, I think Alexander (the one who got hurt) would say it was worth it. It should be noted that the injury happened when they deviated from acceptable Sumo maneuvers and decided to run their pillow bellies together at top speed. Xander being the lighter of the two, went flying backwards into the wall.

So they got a little Physics lesson too. Ah, homeschooling!