Pinch Punch, First Day of the Month! · Friday December 1, 2006 by Abbie
It is interesting how things pass from generation to generation. This was one of those sitlly things that we did as kids, and now I do it with Ram!
I let him get me this morning with it. It took him a few minutes to get there though. He is always slow to wake up in the morning. I asked him if he knew what day it was and a couple of minutes later he crawled out from under the covers and pinched and punched me!
We also get to turn over the calenders today. Last New Year I went to one of those calendar shops that appear in December. They always sell off their calendars cheaply in the new year before they close their shops. Last year I bought some art calendars. One is Salvador Dali, and the other is Frida Kahlo. Each month we have a look at and discuss the painting. I just hope the shop is there again this year so I can buy some more!
We came across an interesting bit in the book this morning. One of the main characters, Jane, is left in a hotel reception room with another child, who is a bit snooty. She has a governess who is away for a while so the girl is at a loose end. This girl tells Jane that her governess reads historical novels to her. I know that today we don’t think of governesses and tutors as home education, but they are just another form of it, and it seems that back then reading aloud was also part of home education!
After breakfast Ram decided to watch the DVD we rented for the week. It is called Princess Mononoke Quite a lot of things came up for discussion in this, such as the environmental theme, Japanese mythology, and animation.
In the afternoon the gardening boys came to dig some holes for the apple trees I have nearly ordered! Ram decided to go out and ‘help’ them. They are really good with him. Probably because they are straight forward chaps and don’t invade Ram’s territory by coming into the house. They found some newts and the fish in the pond made a special appearance too!
Ram is now chilling out watching the original Batman film. Not everything we do is educational!
Oh, and no pinch backs or punch backs!
