Yesterday we read about King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in history. As an activity the girlies were to make Queen Isabella crowns. We walked to JoAnn’s for the needed supplies. While we walked we read the history chapter and discussed it.

I noticed a couple of delivery men walked into the building and we just followed them. I noticed the store was devoid of all people. It was as if the delivery men somehow entered the twilight zone and were vaporized out of sight. I noticed the cash register drawers were completely open and there was not an employee in sight. Not a good sign I thought. Then I noticed the cash drawers were completely empty. An even worse sight.

I just knew at any moment the police would storm the building and there I was, standing with two empty cash drawers. I skedaddled our way to the door where I noticed their hours. The didn’t open for another 25 minutes.

Whew! They hadn’t been robbed! At 10 we walked back to the store and bought our crown supplies and never mentioned having been in the store earlier. You never know what might happen.

Last night we started making the crowns. Now I consider myself somewhat of a rebel. I don’t like to follow directions much. The directions told us to use craft wire, but I found paddle wire for $2 cheaper and I got more. The craft wire was 24 gauge and the paddle wire was 26 gauge. I thought that close enough and I bought the paddle wire.

In short it was the wrong thing to buy.  The wire was too flimsy. So I need to get the right  wire and bigger beads.  But here are some pictures at our attempt to make crowns.

Goober making her crown.

Beanie and her crown.

The crown makers.

Goober has been really struggling with grammar lately. It seems she can’t remember what a noun or a verb is. She confuses pronouns and adjectives.  Today we needed to use the radio station’s basement room for our schooling, and they had a white board. I used a different color marker for each part of grammar. I think having her see it, and see the different colors really helped. She could tell Daddy what color adjectives were,  what color nouns, verbs, and pronouns.

She kept telling me “A pronoun is a word that describes a noun. An adjective takes the place of a noun.” Totally confusing those two. A friend had the brilliant idea to tell her, “the first word of adjective is “add”. An adjective adds to a noun.”

Blimey! That was brilliant! I think she got it.

We use Story of the World for history, and are currently in the second book. Now except for Christmas break we have done one chapter a week since September. I thought we were doing really pretty good.

However, Monday I counted the remaining chapters and realized we still have four months of history to finish this book!! FOUR MONTHS!!!

May, June, July, and August.  No summer break. No time off for good behavior. It is work straight through until August and then start book 3 in September.

Uhhh. In a word. No. Not gonna do it. We will attempt to do two a week, which means hopefully we can finish in June. Doing two a week should take us 7.5 weeks instead of 15.

I understand the concept behind SOTW and truly we love it. I just wish they had broken it into smaller bites.

Last week we studied about the 100 years war between France and England. This week we learned about Richard III and Henry Tudor. Tomorrow we read about Ferdinand  and Isabella.