our day (including some good links)
After spending the day with friends yesterday, today our time was spent doing-
*Math games from the “Mega-Fun Math Games and Puzzles for the Elementary Grades“ and some math exercises from the Hungarian Mathematics and Enhancement Programme.
*Art and literature (this weekend we will be working on Frida inspired portraits).
*Reading- Fauna is inhaling the Harry Potter series right now; Araina is reading and loving poetry of all kinds- she keeps a book of Robert Louis Stevenson under her pillow to read before she falls asleep and reading it is the first thing she does in the morning.
*Writing in reading journals- both little ladies keep a journal where they record the books they read with a brief synopsis of each book.
*Geography- we are learning about Beatrix Potter, reading her wonderful stories, learning and locating where she is was from. Reading some biographies about her has lead us to learn about cryptography, using a cipher wheel , and writing in code. Very cool woman that Beatrix Potter was!
*Listening to books on CD- Rudyard Kipling stories seem to be the favorite right now.
*And there is ALWAYS time to create (latch hook today), dance, and play!
Enjoy your weekend!
I agree, Bee Potter, is a neat lady to study. I wrote a paper in high school about her. I love the movie they made about her. I love that she donated the land she bought from her books as land that must remain “green”. Great movie. Good job.
We have this picture book about Frida and Love it. My girls and I did self portraits after reading it last summer.
Maybe it’s just me being fussy, but there’s two other major countries left off the United Kingdom work sheet, the UK doesn’t just include England and Northern Ireland.
I love reading about the way in which your children learn! Beatrix Potter books are so so lovely to read.
Thanks for the great links!
Ha! Don’t worry, my kids know that England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are the UK. We cut that worksheet apart actually and ignored the words. I never take worksheets like that at face value; we actually were focusing on the flag. Araina wanted to color the countries.
i love reading what your learning includes. thank you for these links!
nicola
http://whichname.blogspot.com
Love the snippets and pieces of your busy days. Great reading…since there seems to be a bit of a British theme…has your family seen the Little Travelers dvd of their trip to the British Isles? It really is fabulous and we highly recommend it. Hoping we can follow in their path sometime in the near future.
http://thelittletravelers.typepad.com/the_little_travelers/a-british-isles-travel-diary/
And that last image of the latch hook brought back some fond childhood memories. Need to get my mom to send us some supplies…my kids are almost old enough to give it a try.
My girls love that Frida Kahlo book! Around here, it never fails to inspire. And as for Beatrix Potter, she’s an all-time family favorite. Really, you just can’t go wrong with her stories, and I’m so glad you’re reading them in the original. Sounds you had a busy day!
I loved seeing this glimpse of how your allow your girls to learn. I’m still trying to develop an image of how our homeschooling will go when my little guy is older.
BTW, I’m your vintage swap partner. I am going to work on getting those questions answered soon. I had such a fun time with it last swap I am exciting for this go round.
blessings~
Yes, see Lisa….a full moon. I must be a werewolf or something! Always getting crazy on the full moon : )
We just read that same Frida book! (And a Diego Rivera book, too.) It was part of our Mexico exploration. It is such a beautiful book.
The Frida sun is wonderful and latch hook – always makes me think of my Childhood when I would spend entire days with a latch hook and yarn. I loved to latch hook!
sounds wonderful! love frida kahlo!!!! thanks for the links
have a great weekend
Lisa
looks like lots of fun learning going on over there. I’m a big fan of Frida and if you are too the book, The Lacuna (By B. Kingsolver), is a historical novel based around Frida and Diego. I’m reading it right now—great book!
I heard a horrible review on NPR about that book. It turned me off the book. Shame on me! I will now look at it with a different mindset. Thanks!
Amazing day! And latch hooking, I remeber latch hooking! I think i need to get Shaye one.
Hi Lisa,
Thanks for sharing what you’ve been up to, and for all the links. I love Frida, and I hope you post your Frida inspired art projects. I hope you’re having a nice weekend! Thanks again!
love,
sara
that’s so cute that she keeps it under her pillow!
Busy, busy!! The puzzle is great and I’ll be sure to check out the math games.
You have all been having such a great week! Thank you for the great links:)
Warmly
Linda
I really enjoyed hearing about your day. Very interesting! Thanks for sharing your day with us.
-Phyllis
How wonderful that you’re teachning your girls about such interesting and eclectic things – poetry, artists, geography, cipher wheels! They sound as though they’re drinking it in and enjoying every moment. Frida Kahlo was such an interesting woman, I’m always keen to learn more about her myself x
oh, fun! Thanks for that math games book suggestion. We have ‘Games For Math’ by Peggy Kay, but I don’t think it’s as extensive.
It’s sounds so great, all the things you’re doing. I want to check out the Mega-fun math book!
Gotta love latch hooking! The cipher wheel sounds intriguing. What a wonderful week you’ve been having as a family!
Pretty, pretty, pretty – your house must be bursting with color and interesting things from all the ongoing projects.
I have a great fondness for Robert Louis Stevenson, and Beatrix Potter too. My oldest did not like the Beatrix Potter stories until she was past 8, but both girls have been enjoying them more lately.
Sounds like an incredible and very literary day. Love the cryptography — will totally have to look into that!
I love how the girls are learning about fairytales and who wrote them
Beautiful pictures!