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Summer Books: The Beowulf Notebooks, Day Three

Today, I finished reading Beowulf aloud to the kids!  Beowulf and his companions return home to their King. After several years of service to Hygelac and, then, Hygelac’s son (whose murder is depicted below), Beowulf himself became the ruler of the Geats.  In his old age, Beowulf must do battle one more time. A poor […]

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Kid-Drawn Story Cards & Story-Telling Games

Today, we had a long train trip home from our trip to High Park, so I took the opportunity to have the kids both create and play story-telling games. They had their markers with them already. And, thinking ahead, I had brought along a big deck of blank white cardstock that I cut into small […]

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