Pegasus loved this movie. He laughed at all the right moments and scoffed at others when they did silly things.
Dance
As per usual, I didn’t do anything specific for this.
Music
His scales are coming along nicely and he willingly practises both his scales and the pieces in the book. He moved on to a new page this week.
Crochet
We haven’t started this yet.
Basic Information
We are working on the day before and the day after any given day. The months of the year is going well. All months have proper pronounciation now, and we’re working on the month before and after any given month. That’s coming slowly.
We practised the seasons, but he still needs help remembering them in French.
Printing words
We’re working on spacing between words, and thinking about where capital letters belong in words. We’re also working on what letters go below the line and what letters are taller than others.
Counting objects/math-type activities
He still has no problems with counting these, and I feel like his numbers have improved.
Math worksheets. He REALLY likes these. He did them both on Monday because he was so excited to do them once again.
Storytime
We got 4 new French library books this week. We read one.
Activity
Make pancakes – Pegasus really enjoyed doing the pouring, although he’s still not holding the cups still for milk, so it just sort of flows in and out, so it made the pancakes a little doughier than we would normally make them. He loved watching for the bubbles to know when to flip them, and really didn’t want to try flipping them himself. (He’s scared to burn himself.)
Learn about the weather – We learned a little about weather last week, when graupel fell on Thursday. Graupel looks like little balls of styrofoam (and sounds like it too), and I was very curious about what it was, so I took some pictures and sent them off to Mark Robinson, a meterologist (and friend). Graupel forms by getting a super cold “dry” deposition of frost on a tiny ice pellet.
Design an island – We did this differently than the way I did it with Dragon, and I was REALLY happy with how this turned out. We poured dice on the paper (rice can be used as well), and then traced the outline. Anywhere where there were holes became lakes, where the dice were stacked became mountains. Then we cleared the dice, selected a few and threw them again to trace around for forests. Something I would change in the future: I would make the mountains upsidedown V’s instead of circles.
