Into the Woods

 Yesterday, we had a busy day at the library watching some science experiments. So, we

1.    Listened to some more music during lunch.

2.    Listened to Act 2, Scene 1. (from a recording)

3.    Watched the next part of the film—which he actually said is kind of good.

I occasionally underestimate my son and I was amazed at how easily he picked up the consequences of Tatiana’s and Oberon’s argument.

Today, we read allowed Act 2, Scene 2 with Emery taking the fairy lines and Victor and I playing the lovers. I was surprised by how many lines rhymed and noticed it even more when Victor changed the pronunciation of certain words to make them rhyme.

It was another busy day (mainly because I got caught up at work), so we ended the session by my asking Emery if he saw any symbols in what we had just read. He got confused and was looking for picture-type symbols. I asked him to think about the snake that Hermia/ Helena had been dreaming about.

On the positive side, he easily caught onto the mischief caused by Puck and his favorite line so far is “love in idleness” which he has rewritten to say “love in laziness”. I’d like to point out the subtle differences in each statement, but the boy’s version is too cute.

But, that might make a good prompt for a writing assignment—it might actually be a theme which is a concept he learned this year. What should he write about?