Friday Sprog Blogging: the school year in review.

Dr. Free-Ride: Hey, how was Nature Study today?
Younger offspring: We went on a nature walk.
Dr. Free-Ride: What kind of nature did you see?
Younger offspring: We didn’t see any.
Dr. Free-Ride: A nature walk without any nature?
Younger offspring: Uh huh.
Dr. Free-Ride: Isn’t that just a walk?

In honor of the end of the school year, the Free-Ride offspring compiled lists of the areas of knowledge they enjoyed exploring the most this year.
Younger offspring’s favorite things learned in Nature Study:

1. A lots of animals and their life cycles (like frogs and butterflies).
2. Lots of planets — but they don’t have life cycles. [Nature Study, sadly, did not talk about the formation of planets and stars, nor their “life cycles’. It might be a time-scale issue.]
3. Continents.
4. A lot about dinosaurs (but we didn’t do any pictures of their life cycles.
5. Rocket-ship math. [They added numbers and filled in the color of the regions on the paper according to a color-by-number key based on the sums they computed.] But that wasn’t actually in Nature Study.

Elder offspring’s favorite areas of study in Science this year:

1. The bearded dragons.
2. The silk worms.
3. Mongeese … mongooses … whatever. [There’s a joke based on this that both offspring tell very well.]
4. Which germs are good for you and which germs are bad for you. (Wait, that was in Health class. Does that count as science?)
5. The weather. (We kept weather recording books.)

Younger offspring: We have a book at school about weather, but we didn’t study weather in Nature Study.
Dr. Free-Ride’s better half: You know why you couldn’t study weather?
Younger offspring: Why?
Dr. Free-Ride’s better half: Because the study of weather is called meteorology, and you’re a vegetarian!
Younger offspring: Nooooo!