Grinding the ink
Calligraphy - she was determined to do them ALL!Other highlights from today:
Sylvia marching around while singing along with the Latin songs. Why does this seem so out of reach for preschoolers? I think Song School Latin, at least the songs and vocabulary, would be completely doable with a small 4 year old class. Or maybe I just don't know 4 year olds very well. One of the songs says, "If you bump into a little man and make him spill his tea, say ignosce mihi." Becca said, "But what if he doesn't speak Latin?"
Right Start math - I just got Level B and after a brief period of mild panic, I think we can do this. We - Becca and I. I could do Singapore, maybe Becca just couldn't. So far our Right Start results are promising. Becca asks to do math first almost every day. She loves the card games and really seems to be getting it. Maybe it's because we went back and are re-doing things we already covered in our Singapore experiment, or maybe RS has a better touch. All I know is that Sylvia - SYLVIE, my 4 year old - is starting to remember number pairs that make ten. Yes, "Go to the Dump" really is that great.
Speaking of Sylvia, she took a ton of books off the shelf and just started to read them. She counted them and had in the neighborhood of 22. She's starting to truly take off in her reading and become a little more fluent, less halting.
I just love the little things in homeschooling. The silly, strange moments you'd never get with any other experience.
Becca tracing her digestive system - 4 and 6 year olds find the manufacture of poop to be endlessly amusing.
Sylvia posing with her outline
"Helpful Spit" from Head to Toe Science. It would have been helpful to have unexpired iodine, which I think might have affected the outcome of this experiment. I don't know if I was able to accurately convey to Becca the role saliva plays in our digestive system, but it's all about the experience when you're five - er, six. Right?
The Golden Apple, from our studies on ancient Greece (SOTW Ch. 23). The whole thing says "For the Most Beautiful." DH presented it to me. Smart man.
Olympus Family Tree, also SOTW Ch. 23. The book that more thoroughly explains this was perpetually checked out of the library, so we just got our hands on it. We tried to put the gods and goddesses in some sort of hierarchical order, but who knows. It's the experience that counts, it's the experience that counts...
Pharos lighthouse (SOTW Ch. 25). I just couldn't buy a whole roll of yellow plastic wrap, so we just put it in the window so the sun would shine through the windows. Becca was more fascinated by the library in Alexandria - girl after my own heart!We're almost done with our Mommy-designed human body studies and I'm making preparations for a short unit on plants. Very short, as in, how can we get this stuff in before Mommy kills all our specimens? I just killed a batch of three seedlings we were growing "just for fun." *rolls eyes at self*
