{"id":17,"date":"2008-02-27T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=17"},"modified":"2008-02-27T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T21:09:00","slug":"homeschool-record-18-24-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Homeschool record 18 &#8211; 24 February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/yellowhousehomeschool.net\/uploaded_images\/Origami-module-house-733384.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/yellowhousehomeschool.net\/uploaded_images\/Origami-module-house-733377.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Most of this week&#8217;s records got lost in a computer accident, but I think it was a quiet week on the homeschooling front, with lots of free play with friends.  There was quite a bit of socialising on the adult front as well.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Lessons<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I think we did them on one day:  narration from Le Feuilleton d&#8217;Hermes, and a bit of dictation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Unschooled Stuff<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Language Arts<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wrote herself a to do list, probably inspired by Frog and Toad<\/li>\n<li>She finished teaching herself the Lapin de Septembre poem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Reading<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A lot of independent reading due to travel time in the car and some adult time.<\/li>\n<li>We co-read Magical Animals from Usborne Young Readers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Maths\/Logic<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Got Mike to print her out a list of long numbers e.g dodecahillions or whatever they are, and discussed scientific notation with him<\/li>\n<li>Played with the tangrams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/yellowhousehomeschool.net\/uploaded_images\/Tangrams-733416.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/yellowhousehomeschool.net\/uploaded_images\/Tangrams-733406.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Science\/Nature Study<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Walk of exploration along favourite stream<\/li>\n<li>Various brainpops<\/li>\n<li>Watched a David Attemborough on mammals<\/li>\n<li>Informal review of continents and oceans on the globe &#8211; and how to find the shortest route across the globe using a piece of string<\/li>\n<li>Learned and spotted the constellation Cassiopeia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Arts and Crafts<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A fair bit of free drawing<\/li>\n<li>Some experimental watercolour painting<\/li>\n<li>She made a paper sculpture of a fish<\/li>\n<li>We made modular origami houses together<\/li>\n<li>We looked at Matisse&#8217;s paper cut-outs <\/li>\n<li>She designed and built an indoor tunnel tent cabane<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/yellowhousehomeschool.net\/uploaded_images\/Paper-Fish-731346.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/yellowhousehomeschool.net\/uploaded_images\/Paper-Fish-731343.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Music<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lots of piano playing<\/li>\n<li>Listened to some jazz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sports<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Got her first beginners ski pass and outgrew it the same day.  She skis as fast as the slope will let her, swerves around fearlessly, but I have no idea if she can stop.<\/li>\n<li>Ball throwing and catching practice.<\/li>\n<li>Went swimming<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Games<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Played a computer game on Mike&#8217;s cell phone.  I don&#8217;t know why.<\/li>\n<li>Played Poisson Rouge a little bit<\/li>\n<li>Lego, a little bit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Out and about<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The back end of the sleepover on one day<\/li>\n<li>Afternoon with friends at the park and their house<\/li>\n<li>Another whole day of play with friends who then came to dinner<\/li>\n<li>An adult dinner party<\/li>\n<li>Went out for lunch in a restaurant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Special mention<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I tried to get her morally prepared for the homeschool inspection.  Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s going to be like.  We discussed various behaviours that might not be ideal, mostly by modelling them, so we had a good laugh.  Some of them came as a surprise to her (we don&#8217;t have to give the inspector a present!), and I just don&#8217;t think she is at a suitable social development stage to handle the kind of &#8216;professional&#8217; relationship to adults that I think they are going to dump on her.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/yellowhousehomeschool.net\/uploaded_images\/Tunnel-tent-731399.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/yellowhousehomeschool.net\/uploaded_images\/Tunnel-tent-731389.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of this week&#8217;s records got lost in a computer accident, but I think it was a quiet week on the homeschooling front, with lots of free play with friends. There was quite a bit of socialising on the adult front as well. Lessons I think we did them on one day: narration from Le &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=17\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Homeschool record 18 &#8211; 24 February<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}