Heritage in Transylvania

24 January 2012

We read some more of Dracula by Bram Stoker. Based on the passage we read these are the activities we engaged in.

• Learning the German alphabet letters and the sounds they make.
• Located Transylvania on a map.
• Discussed the descriptions of the way people dressed.
• Looked up the recipe for Mamaliga and Impletata to have for breakfast tomorrow.
• Discussed punctuality.
• Looked up the meaning of various words such as missals.
• Talked in brief about levees and floods.
• We talked about twilight, dawn, dusk, sunset etc.
• We discussed what it is the siege a location.
• We talked about the fact that we have maternal lineage from Transylvania.
• We watched some tutorials about beginning family history searches.

Today was also our Free Computer day, each kids was allowed 2 hours of screen time to play on their favorite flash games websites. All in all not a bad day, but maybe not as productive as yesterday. I will finish up my reading of A Thomas Jefferson Education by Oliver Demille and then I will print out the pages I will be needing from my PDF copy of The Checklist by Cindy Downes. After tying up a few of these ends our lessons will be a little bit more focused.