Lessons

• Maths: substractions from maths method and using Petit Professeur; Freres Lyons program: tests for pre-operative thinking and half of first module; made dodecahedron calendar
• Narration: from Le Feuilleton d’Hermes
• Writing: Capital letters in cursive, copywork
• Memory: Reviewed poems, months, days, seasons
• Reading: Mimi Cracra toute l’annee: mars et avril

The Unschooled Stuff

Language Arts

• Blogged about microscope photos and dictated a poem

Reading

• Co-read the end of Charlotte aux Fraises, Lou la Brebis
• Read aloud: Lettres de l’ecureuil a la fourmi by Toon Tellegen; Martine au zoo
• Independent reading: Hairy McLary

Maths/Logic

• Played with geometric blocks
• Snakes and ladders with various rules and dice combinations
• Tangram puzzles
• Independent practice of mental substractions and column additions
• Started learning to use the calculator from her maths book
• Made the cube and tetrahedron from flat shapes out of her maths book, then made them out of magnetic rods

Science/Nature Study

• Lots of birds on our bird feeder, we spent time observing and identifying them
• Sheep’s wool compared to plant fluff under the microscope: she learned how to manipulate the slide table a bit
• Watched Seasonal Seas, David Attenborough
• Did a make your own fossil from a snail shell experiment
• Looked at pictures in a book about bees, then watched In a Beehive on the Magic School Bus

Arts and Craft

• Looked at paintings by Whistler
• Looked at paintings by Caspar David Friedrich, discussed painting media and supports a bit
• Did the warm and cool colours module in GeeArt
• Paper cutout picture based on Matisse
• Drawing with shapes: represented Plune and Grossoleil from Ponti
• Made a very beautiful white mask and snowflakes
• Went to the art museum and sculpture park
• Lots of free drawing

Practical Life

• Planted sunflower seeds
• Began a batch of chocolate truffle

Music

• Piano practice and improvisations

Sports/Games

• Lapin Malin CE1
• Pirate game
• Chess
• Swimming class
• Dance class

Out and About

• Ate at an Indian restaurant
• One sleepover and two other afternoons with friends
• Went to the cinema with a friend to see Voyage a Panama

Other stuff

• The evil homeschool inspection: 2 hours of hard work and answering questions for a strange adult
• Post-inspection space out time: watched Harry Potter and Azur et Asmar