The Result of a year of Homeschool on the kids who are “too young” for school

Banana Cream Pie is 5&1/2. Sometimes she sits by me during our morning school time while I read aloud and the big girls and I repeat the scriptures, poems, and Shakespeare passages that we are memorizing. Often though, she is playing or not even in the room with us, or repeatedly interrupting to tell me she wants to play with the kindle or is hungry.

One day as we repeated our review poems, she said, “You forgot the one about ‘bread lasts only a day’.” So we added The Human Touch by Spencer Michael Free to our review for the day.

For exams, I had each of the big girls recite the 3 Shakespeare passages we worked on from Midsummer Night’s Dream. Pumpkin Pie got stuck after
“The eye of man hath not heard,
The ear of man hath not seen…”

And suddenly, Banana Cream Pie piped up with
“‘Man’s hand is not able to taste’, ya-doi!”

Then today, Peach Pie was lying on the trampoline, and Banana Cream Pie knelt next to her and patted her cheek and said:
“Asleep my love?
What dead, my dove?
This cherry nose,
These onion bunion cheeks..”

Wild laughter ensued.

Proof Positive that five-year-olds can enjoy Shakespeare and get his jokes or make their own from his.

I took her into the school for Kindergarten screening and they were impressed that she knew all of her alphabet letters. They didn’t even ask if she could recite Shakespeare!