Year 2: Week 8

Gemma got to play giant tennis with a juggler. 

https://youtu.be/LtM4XzIri-M

After the show, Gemma walked up to the stage (I didn’t know why) and politely asked if she could have the self-portrait he drew while juggling.

Some of the stuff we read:

• Understood Betsy ch 8
• 3 pages of Lamb’s The Taming of the Shrew
• Genesis 11 & 12
• Our Island Story (about Stonehenge, King Arthur, and The Round Table)
• a chapter of Discovery of New Worlds
• Spark of Life ch 4
• The World by the Fireside (South America)
• 1/3 of a chapter from Tales of Troy & Greece
• Christina Rossetti poetry