YoungSon1's iris and onion.
While painting we had an interesting discussion. We had no plan to have this conversation, it just came up as we were painting yellow and blue. I began by remembering winter solstice and the week of minerals. I said something along the lines of "a stone has a body..." and YoungSon1 was quick to finish for me by adding "but it isn't alive." What about a plant? YoungSon1 was right there. "A plant has a body and is alive, but it doesn't have a spirit unless a fairy fills it and borrows its body, but that would be a fairy spirit in a plant, not a plant spirit." Well okay then. Somehow this was covered - or it just makes so much sense to him, he has thought it out on his own. I asked what it meant to be alive. YoungSon1 answered that to be alive, you need to breath in and out, eat, drink (and move "juice" through your body in a pattern), and be warm. (I was so tempted to talk cold vs. warm blooded, but I thought is answer was quite good, and didn't want to complicate things.) So I summarized for him saying it sounded like to be alive you needed to exist with all four elements. He agreed. I would like to review his Man and Animal main lesson book as the beginning of our next lesson and continue the conversation a little more. Wouldn't it be great if we had done geology by Advent and each week we could review geology, botany, then man and animal? After 7th grade we could add in anatomy main lesson review. Oh I am totally doing this!
