I handed off my camera to my 8yr old and snuck in some pics with my oldest before our day really got going.
Early morning light in this spot has always been my favorite.
My goal was to take pics with each of my kids in the month of January.
I finally finished yesterday.
1 month is not too bad right?
Ha!
After trying out the Rattlesnake Trail in the spring before and getting covered in ticks, I really wanted to try it in the winter.
Tick free but the tall grass and thorns were a bit much for some of my kids to handle.
I probably need to pick a bit easier trail for them until they get used to hiking a bit more.
The boys liked the challenge though.
They see it all as an adventure though and get bored on easy trails fast.
So if you want to avoid ticks now is the time but you might have to deal with overgrown trails and briar’s.
This trail is located North of Sheppard’s point just before the boat ramp.
My boys studied Shakespeare to go along with Galileo and the Conquistadors.
That is why I love learning via timeline, you get to learn about things that don’t seem to go together.
They really liked “The Winter’s Tale“, “Will’s Quill“, and “Hamlet.”
Although my oldest(9) read a lot of the Lamb’s Tales of Shakespeare as well and seemed to like it(free version available for Kindle).
Later on I found some really interesting interactive sites for Shakespeare.
Literary Wonderland has a really cool rap version of Macbeth!
The BBC site has a fun game they can play, here.
They also have a 60 second version of Shakespeare that is like reading about the tale in the newspaper which I thought was fun, here.
My boys spent a lot of time on the Modern Library site, playing their shakespeare quizzes and games.
Their favorite part of this study was probably the live sword fight from Macbeth that we saw at the Natural History Museum in OKC.
They could probably watch sword fights all day.
Because they are boys…
Do you have a favorite resource for Shakespeare?
Just found this so I am adding it for my future reference.
Shakespeare Solos, actors performing key speeches from his plays.