{"id":26,"date":"2008-03-10T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=26"},"modified":"2008-03-10T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T21:02:00","slug":"homeschool-record-3-9-march-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Homeschool record: 3-9 March 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Lessons<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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<\/li>\n<li>Narration: from Le Feuilleton d&#8217;Hermes<\/li>\n<li>Writing: Capital letters in cursive, copywork<\/li>\n<li>Memory: Reviewed poems, months, days, seasons<\/li>\n<li>Reading: Mimi Cracra toute l&#8217;annee: mars et avril<\/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>Blogged about microscope photos and dictated a poem<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Reading<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-read the end of Charlotte aux Fraises, Lou la Brebis<\/li>\n<li>Read aloud: Lettres de l&#8217;ecureuil a la fourmi by Toon Tellegen; Martine au zoo<\/li>\n<li>Independent reading: Hairy McLary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Maths\/Logic<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Played with geometric blocks<\/li>\n<li>Snakes and ladders with various rules and dice combinations<\/li>\n<li>Tangram puzzles<\/li>\n<li>Independent practice of mental substractions and column additions<\/li>\n<li>Started learning to use the calculator from her maths book<\/li>\n<li>Made the cube and tetrahedron from flat shapes out of her maths book, then made them out of magnetic rods<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Science\/Nature Study<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lots of birds on our bird feeder, we spent time observing and identifying them<\/li>\n<li>Sheep&#8217;s wool compared to plant fluff under the microscope: she learned how to manipulate the slide table a bit<\/li>\n<li>Watched Seasonal Seas, David Attenborough<\/li>\n<li>Did a make your own fossil from a snail shell experiment<\/li>\n<li>Looked at pictures in a book about bees, then watched In a Beehive on the Magic School Bus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Arts and Craft<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Looked at paintings by Whistler<\/li>\n<li>Looked at paintings by Caspar David Friedrich, discussed painting media and supports a bit<\/li>\n<li>Did the warm and cool colours module in GeeArt<\/li>\n<li>Paper cutout picture based on Matisse<\/li>\n<li>Drawing with shapes: represented Plune and Grossoleil from Ponti<\/li>\n<li>Made a very beautiful white mask and snowflakes<\/li>\n<li>Went to the art museum and sculpture park<\/li>\n<li>Lots of free drawing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Practical Life<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Planted sunflower seeds<\/li>\n<li>Began a batch of chocolate truffle <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Music<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Piano practice and improvisations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sports\/Games<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lapin Malin CE1<\/li>\n<li>Pirate game<\/li>\n<li>Chess<\/li>\n<li>Swimming class<\/li>\n<li>Dance class<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Out and About<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ate at an Indian restaurant<\/li>\n<li>One sleepover and two other afternoons with friends<\/li>\n<li>Went to the cinema with a friend to see Voyage a Panama<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Other stuff<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The evil homeschool inspection: 2 hours of hard work and answering questions for a strange adult<\/li>\n<li>Post-inspection space out time: watched Harry Potter and Azur et Asmar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;Hermes Writing: Capital letters in cursive, copywork Memory: Reviewed poems, months, days, seasons Reading: Mimi Cracra toute l&#8217;annee: mars et avril The Unschooled Stuff Language Arts &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/?p=26\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Homeschool record: 3-9 March 2008<\/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\/26"}],"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=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yellowhousehomeschool.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}