Monday, May 26, 2008

Egypt, Snow White, and vocabulary

Read E.H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World, Chapter 3: "The Land Beside The Nile"; discussed mummies, pyramids, hieroglyphics, pharoahs, and obelisks.

P read Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (the read-along book than comes with the tape). We worked on his slowing down and enunciating, and discussed how reading silently to ourselves can often occur faster than reading aloud (he was skipping words when reading, because they weren't germaine to the story. Showed great skill at faster reading for himself.).

Discussed some words from Snow White that he didn't know, including: linen, ebony, rage, banished, vain, wept, and chasm.