dd (10) just started last week into the Exploring Creation with Astronomy text (and she's very interested - what a lovely book, the way it's written in child-friendly language, lots of great illustrations, activities, the works! we both love it) and in the first chapter there is a small part about Nicholas Copernicus ** and Galileo .....well, last night, dd and i were playing her version of charades (meaning most of th rules are missing :lol: ) and she starts doing one that i can't figure out... she says (remember i said the rules are gone, so she speaks LOL) "it's people!" ...and starts in on it again, doing what looks like a few different characters.....she's gesturing widly at an audience in one character, waving her hands around in circles, then hops over to be 'the audience' and stands there shaking her head, turns and walks away... comes back and stands in a different spot, nodding and waving her hands in circles again and acting like she's shaking someone's hand.... i had yet to get it, so she gives me hints... "i'm two people, and a bunch of people!" ( me in my head = huh??) "these are stuff going around!" (holding her circling hands up) then she gestures towards her schoolbag on the floor, where i can see her astronomy book peeking out... and it hit me. :-o she was pretending to be those two guys (and the disbelieving public at the time) i suppose this would make more sense if i gave this short explanation --- Copernicus was the first guy to try telling people that the earth went around the sun... he wasn't really believed... Galileo did believe what Copernicus was trying to tell people...... now, they didn't live at the same time, so they wouldn't have met like she acted that out, but that's fine with me -- we can do historical dates some other time. maybe this story sounds silly, but i was tickled pink to see this choice of charade after several hilary duff song titles and kids' tv show characters and whatnot. :lol: ** asterisks up there because there are different variations on the spelling of Nicholas..wikipedia says 'Nicolaus', but many books and sites say 'Nicholas'.
That is so neat. I had a similar moment this week when my nine year old told me she liked math and that she was good at it. Wow! This is a big step from the tears and "I don't get it" stage we were in when we started homeschooling last year.
lol.. I would have been lost too! It's wonderful when things just click, and even better when they don't even realize they are actually applying what they know
