Today Keith discussed criminal prosecutions with the kids... reading from the Street Law book. I wish I'd had this kind of education when I was a kid. I probably spent half my adult life not understanding some of the things he was reading about today -- like Miranda warnings, who Miranda was and why he sued, pleas, courtroom terminology, etc. The kids never lost interest... so I'm glad we found something that keeps their attention. Of course the government wouldn't want people to know how to defend themselves in court, so it is no big surprise that these things aren't taught in government schools.
After that, Keith read to them from
Dear Mad'am - a book about Happy Camp area history... by an elderly woman who lived at Ferry Point... a few miles downriver.
Next we had math lessons. I had Cimeron doing the multiplication pre-test from the Barron's workbook I checked out of the library. She was so distracted last time we did the Trips website I decided to try something else for a while and go back to Trips again soon. Aaron is still working on memorizing basic multiplication equasions... and was doing problems I had written into his notebook a few days ago. He did great on most - only missed three this time!
Music was Christmas songs. My kids don't sing enough and I'm trying to change that.
It rained outside most of the day and they stayed home except when Cimeron went with me to the store downtown.