G. and L. stories
G. and L. continue to crack me up much of the time. Neither of them is your typical ten year old; they are rather unique, even if there are two of them.
Currently documentaries are their big love. They can't watch enough of them. Today they asked if they could watch the documentary we own about wonders of the ancient world. I'm pretty sure they have it memorized, but of course I said yes. An hour was happily spent learning about Stonehenge and the stone circles of Avebury. I have to admit that all I currently know about the stone circles of Avebury is from L. following me around this afternoon and telling me about them. She was a little disappointed that I didn't have more to add to the conversation.
Later in the day, as I was doing something in the kitchen, L. starts expounding on her personal thesis of how the monoliths of Stonehenge were set in place. "I think that since Stonehenge was built in the bronze age, that the druids build cranes out of bronze and used them to lift the stones into place," she tells me.
"Hmmm.... are you sure that bronze is strong enough to lift thousands of pounds of stone," I ask. This is a stab in the dark on my part. I don't really know, but feel the need to add to the conversation.
"I don't know. Maybe it isn't. But it is still a good idea," L. replies after thinking about it a moment.
"I think this sounds like something you need to research," add G. This statement is ignored by L., who then begins to tell me something else about Stonehenge and Avebury, pauses, and dashes out of the kitchen announcing as she runs that she has an amazing idea for a story and has to go write it this minute.
Later on, after some negotiations, G. gains permission to go a bake some chocolate chip cookies. She came to find me to double check a particular ingredient. I answer her question, and she replies, "Thanks. I just wanted to confirm before I began," and trots off to bake. I'm left wondering about the use of 'confirm'. I'm not sure I would even use it in that sentence. I think this is what comes of reading voraciously and watching too many documentaries. I also chuckled to myself, thinking back to that study which purportedly showed that youngest children in large families having impaired vocabularies. I checked that worry off my list of things to obsess about long ago, but I like to have a moment of feeling smug every now and then.
Tomorrow, L. has requested that I go through her new story she has written about the building of Stonehenge and Avebury to check spelling and punctuation. She has specifically written it in pencil so that corrections can easily be made. L.'s spelling, even with her co-op spelling class, is still more on the inventive side, so it may take me a while to sort out the over three pages that she has written. A picture of a druid encouraging a complaining worker does take up some of those three pages, so it's not all writing.
I love these girls!
Currently documentaries are their big love. They can't watch enough of them. Today they asked if they could watch the documentary we own about wonders of the ancient world. I'm pretty sure they have it memorized, but of course I said yes. An hour was happily spent learning about Stonehenge and the stone circles of Avebury. I have to admit that all I currently know about the stone circles of Avebury is from L. following me around this afternoon and telling me about them. She was a little disappointed that I didn't have more to add to the conversation.
Later in the day, as I was doing something in the kitchen, L. starts expounding on her personal thesis of how the monoliths of Stonehenge were set in place. "I think that since Stonehenge was built in the bronze age, that the druids build cranes out of bronze and used them to lift the stones into place," she tells me.
"Hmmm.... are you sure that bronze is strong enough to lift thousands of pounds of stone," I ask. This is a stab in the dark on my part. I don't really know, but feel the need to add to the conversation.
"I don't know. Maybe it isn't. But it is still a good idea," L. replies after thinking about it a moment.
"I think this sounds like something you need to research," add G. This statement is ignored by L., who then begins to tell me something else about Stonehenge and Avebury, pauses, and dashes out of the kitchen announcing as she runs that she has an amazing idea for a story and has to go write it this minute.
Later on, after some negotiations, G. gains permission to go a bake some chocolate chip cookies. She came to find me to double check a particular ingredient. I answer her question, and she replies, "Thanks. I just wanted to confirm before I began," and trots off to bake. I'm left wondering about the use of 'confirm'. I'm not sure I would even use it in that sentence. I think this is what comes of reading voraciously and watching too many documentaries. I also chuckled to myself, thinking back to that study which purportedly showed that youngest children in large families having impaired vocabularies. I checked that worry off my list of things to obsess about long ago, but I like to have a moment of feeling smug every now and then.
Tomorrow, L. has requested that I go through her new story she has written about the building of Stonehenge and Avebury to check spelling and punctuation. She has specifically written it in pencil so that corrections can easily be made. L.'s spelling, even with her co-op spelling class, is still more on the inventive side, so it may take me a while to sort out the over three pages that she has written. A picture of a druid encouraging a complaining worker does take up some of those three pages, so it's not all writing.
I love these girls!
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