{"id":21,"date":"2008-03-04T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-03-11T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T20:04:07","slug":"homeschool-record-february-25-march-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Homeschool record: February 25 &#8211; March 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/homeschool-time-pie-chart1.jpg\" title=\"homeschool-time-pie-chart1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/homeschool-time-pie-chart1.jpg\" title=\"homeschool-time-pie-chart1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/homeschool-time-pie-chart1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"homeschool-time-pie-chart1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Lessons<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maths: made pie charts contrasting use of time in school with homeschool, and talked about the differences; began work on substraction module in our maths book<\/li>\n<li>Memory work: reviewed days of week, months of year, seasons, location, capital and symbols of France, the poems learned so far<\/li>\n<li>Narration: from Le Feuilleton d&#8217;Hermes<\/li>\n<li>Oral conjugation of verbs in French<\/li>\n<li>Writing: capital letters in cursive, spelling of common words in French<\/li>\n<li>Piano: officially began work on Suzuki 1, piece 4<\/li>\n<li>Non-fiction: Co-read un festin au moyen age by Aliki, about medieval feasts; Au royaume des dragons by Serge Strosberg, about Darwin in the Galapagos<\/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>Invented a sock puppet story play about 2 snakes<\/li>\n<li>Wrote a blog post for her fungus and a very silly poem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Reading<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Independent reading: Loebel&#8217;s Owl stories<\/li>\n<li>Co-read: one of the Winx books, Charlotte aux Fraises: Bienvenu a Fraisi-Paradis, Baba Yaga, Le chateau d&#8217;Anne Hiversaire, Usborne Young Readers book of monsters<\/li>\n<li>Read-aloud: Le petit cochon fute from Contes dela rue Broca,  Max and Moritz, Tistou les pouces verts, Peau d&#8217;Ane<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Maths\/Logic<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Antonia made a map of our village, copied from the Google map<\/li>\n<li>Played with mosaic blocks<\/li>\n<li>Played with cuisenaire rods<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Science\/Nature Study<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remembering the names of such flowers as are around in two languages<\/li>\n<li>Drew a rainbow with great concern for colour order, but it ended up inside out!<\/li>\n<li>Started germinating sunflower seeds<\/li>\n<li>Brainpops: leap years, acne(!), multiplication<\/li>\n<li>Discussion of leap years, talked about Pirates of Penzance which she knows<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">History\/Geography\/Social sudies<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Major discussion of prisons and law and order inspired by the Tistou book.  I am really happy as this is the first long read-aloud book in French that has ever captured her interest.  Without any conscious previous input from us, it&#8217;s interesting that she vehicles the &#8216;social norm&#8217; idea of prisons that the book sets out to counteract.<\/li>\n<li>Went out for Japanese food and looked at a kimono<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Arts and Crafts<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Made herself a bound book containing spirograph drawings, a game, a compass rose&#8230; and scribbles<\/li>\n<li>Saw a Hong Kong animation, McDull dans les nuages<\/li>\n<li>Watched Mr Bean (I couldn&#8217;t), laughed like a hyena and developed an affection for Whistler&#8217;s Mother<\/li>\n<li>Drew a portrait of Mike from life<\/li>\n<li>Collage of natural objects<\/li>\n<li>Made a watercolour<\/li>\n<li>Looked at art calendar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Practical Life\/Cooking<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Built and decorated the stunning multi-tier cake<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Music<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lots of piano improvisation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Sports\/Games<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Went swimming<\/li>\n<li>Built a huge Kapla zoo with little train, animals, people over several days<\/li>\n<li>Did most of Lapin Malin CE1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Out and About<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Afternoon at the park<\/li>\n<li>Went shopping for art supplies<\/li>\n<li>Three afternoons and one whole day with friends<\/li>\n<li>Walk to favourite stream with friends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Other stuff<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some of our reading led us into major ethical discussions so I now know that she distinguishes between beauty and goodness (she didn&#8217;t till quite recently).  She&#8217;s starting to perceive a relationship between power and badness explicitly and struggles with other issues: why are people bad? what is the role of external consequences versus conscience, are people who are rough and rude necessarily bad (Baba Yaga)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons Maths: made pie charts contrasting use of time in school with homeschool, and talked about the differences; began work on substraction module in our maths book Memory work: reviewed days of week, months of year, seasons, location, capital and symbols of France, the poems learned so far Narration: from Le Feuilleton d&#8217;Hermes Oral conjugation &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=21\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Homeschool record: February 25 &#8211; March 2<\/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\/21"}],"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=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}