Live and Learn
Feb. 24, 2006
Week 20
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February 20-24, 2006 Nature walk and drawing at the park.  Wednesday of this week we packed up our art supplies and headed out to the park to take a nature walk and pick something to draw. It was a beautiful day - sunny with a slight breeze. We picked a few spots along the path to draw and also stopped at the end of the trail near the river. Here's middle drawing  and little one  and everyone near the river  I just can't say how much I love this park. It was so refreshing to get out of the house and walk amongst the trees, hear the birds sing and look at the flowers and the river. I'm so glad to finally take an opportunity to take the classroom outside - hope to do this more and more as lovely spring weather descends upon us. Oldest finished Along Came a Dog by Meindert DeJong for assigned reading and If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution. We read soe more poetry from Classic Poetry together. We worked on Math together almost every day this week. It does seems to be helping some - even if for nothing else but to make math go quicker. Middle and I read some more great picture books together. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Officer Buckle and Gloria Toby, Who Are You? Toby, What Are You? Doctor DeSoto Score One for the Sloths The Shrinking Mouse Horace and Morris but Mostly Delores Hooway for Wodney Wat Princess Penelope's Parrot Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog For Science we read Pop! A book about Bubbles and Energy Makes Things Happen and we continued in Living Long Ago for History. For reading, middle read a little each day out of some Abeka readers along with sight word cards, word family cards and a page out of Letter Skills K. Middle is progressing right along with his reading. I am so proud of him. It has been so nice to go along at our own pace, follow middle's readiness cues and to use a mix of materials instead of one curriculum. For Math we read some living math books and did a few pages out of Number Skills K. We continue in Egermeier's Bible Story book and daily piano lesson/practice. |
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