How are plants and Stonehenge connected?

Matt has not been well the last few days, with a very sore throat, so we have not been studying. Yesterday he had improved so we made a start back. We are currently reading an extremely powerful and useful book - The Money Bible, by Stuart Wilde. Today in Chapter 6 we learnt about the Ego, and how it drives mankind, and how it can stop us from having what we want. Most importantly, and it was a message that hit home to me personally, is that life must not be taken too seriously. When we take life too seriously we lose the childlike part of ourselves, and thus our creativity, and ability to solve problems and get what we want. Too much concentration and focus and obsession about what we haven't got - doesn't get us what we want. It's almost as if we have to 'let go'. I described to Matt how it's like some couples who are told they cannot have children, and they try for years through IVF etc, and nothing happens, and it's the moment when they 'let go', and accept that they must move on and focus on something else in their lives, that they suddenly find themselves expecting a baby!

As well as the above, we concentrated on some more maths principles that I found Matt had not grasped at school - long multiplication and long division. Home educating means that I can mark his work with him, and he can correct his mistakes and learn from them. We were finding that at school the teacher would write in his books that he must complete his classwork, or correct his work, yet he wouldn't do so. But the teacher never followed up on this, so work was left incomplete and mistakes uncorrected - and thus any weaknesses remain!

We examined/dissected a large sunflower head that I'd taken from the garden, and discussed plants, what they need, and the process of photosynthesis. To illustrate how subjects are all connected, we discussed the necessity for sunlight for plants, and how people in history have worshipped the sun, because without the sun they realised that there would be absolutely no life on earth. This drew us on to look up Stonehenge on the internet, look at and discuss the photos and the possible reasons why it was built. Matt had not heard about Stonehenge.

It's been a good day, and I learnt quite a lot myself too!