A Little Homeschool History?


(This entry comes with my apologies to Dale, for blogging a story he's already heard, but letting him anticipate the new blog entry all night)
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We started reading Carry On, Mr. Bowditch today. In the first chapter they mention "The War" in 1775. So I asked my children, "Which war would that be?"

"The Revolutionary War" one answered.

"Who fought that war?" I went on

"The Americans."

"Who were they fighting against?"

long pause from the children ...

another child offers, "El Salvador?"

long pause from me ... "Um, no, it was the English ... Britain."

"I thought that was the Civil War."

"Um ... no. The Civil War we fought against ourselves."

wild laughter from the children.

"No, really. One half of our country fought against the other."

"Really? Why?"

Apparently they're not soaking up as much history just from reading as I hoped. (Although, to be fair, we haven't read any Civil War books ...) At this point one tired mom decides she's running out of happy-baby time, "Let's just finish our reading today, and we can talk about the Civil War later."

note to other homeschoolers: yeah, yeah, I know I probably should've at least explained a little, and gone with their interest at the moment ... but I think I'll wait and check out some library books, maybe finally put up my timelines ... after I laminate them ... in my spare time ... just to make sure **I** don't get the story wrong. Make sure El Salvador wasn't involved.

Posted: Thu - May 26, 2005 at 12:04 AM          

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