Pegasus Flight School

Pegasus absolutely adored this, although he pretends he doesn’t know what was going on.

Dance

I haven’t been doing much formally for this one. I’ll put music on and he’ll dance to it unprompted. (repeated from last week)

Music

He has been diligent about practising his scales and doing the exercises from the book. He also says out loud what the scale letters are as he plays them.

Crochet

We’re on break for now.

Basic Information

We alternated between listening to videos for the days of the week and months of the year (M, W, F), and attempting to put them in order with the pieces of paper (days on Tuesday, months on Thursday). He sang along unprompted. He didn’t need any prompting with the days of the week this week.

Printing words

He enjoys doing this activity and completed it on the second day this week. He’s working on making his letters smaller and more contained. I’m trying to get him to put more of a space between his words.

Counting objects/math-type activities

He did well on his counting. He asked me to trace a 6 in the air, and even then had some issues with it. We tried again, with it written down, and he did much better.

Storytime

We read one of the French books. He did well.

Activity

Finish zine (put everything together) – He took out the background of the cast and placed them in his zine. Then we used the cutter to remove the edges and he folded it into a complete zine.

Bake cookies – I wasn’t sure we were going to have time for this, but we squeezed it in on Saturday. He didn’t have the patience to put them on the cookie sheet, but I can’t say that I blame him!

Finish previous week’s projects – We completed the buttons that were Christmas gifts, as well as write on the gift tags and wrap the presents.

I had forgotten how beautiful this movie was, and the French dub was superb. I’m extremely picky about dubs, and I’ve never had any complaints about a Netflix dub into French. Pegasus liked the movie a lot, but he is familiar with the general story.

Dance

I haven’t been doing much formally for this one. I’ll put music on and he’ll dance to it unprompted. (repeated from last week)

Music

He has been diligent about practising his scales and doing the exercises from the book. He also says out loud what the scale letters are as he plays them.

Crochet

We’re on break for now.

Basic Information

We alternated between listening to videos for the days of the week and months of the year (M, W, F), and attempting to put them in order with the pieces of paper (days on Tuesday, months on Thursday). He sang along unprompted. He didn’t need any prompting with the days of the week this week.

Printing words

He enjoys doing this activity and completed it on the fourth day this week. He’s working on making his letters smaller and more contained.

Counting objects/math-type activities

He did well on his counting. He asked me to trace in the air a 6 and 7, but wrote them no problem.

Storytime

We didn’t read the two weeks before last’s French books. Sickness took over our household. I’m feeling well enough to read aloud now, so we should be able to read them in week 17.

Activity

Make toilet paper roll art – Pegasus chose the same figure that Dragon had done – the snowman. Fortunately, we had just enough little balls, and he liked that they were different colours. I learned from the previous attempt, and punched holes into the top of the roll for the pipe cleaner to go through to that it would be easier to glue.

Make zine (plan and backgrounds) – he is incredibly enthusiastic about this. He typed in the words to find the background pictures, decided on his cast, and planned out which parts of the story to put into the zine. Then on Friday, he built the backgrounds into the zine in Canva.

Pegasus enjoyed this movie. It is not one he knows, so I was interested to see how much he understood from it. However, everyone is sick this week, so I’m not sure how well that worked. He says he has no idea what happened, but I’m not sure if it’s the French or the sickness that prevented him from understanding.

Dance

I haven’t been doing much formally for this one. I’ll put music on and he’ll dance to it unprompted. (repeated from last week)

Music

He has been diligent about practising his scales and doing the exercises from the book. He also says out loud what the scale letters are as he plays them.

Crochet

We’re on break for now.

Basic Information

We alternated between listening to videos for the days of the week and months of the year (M, W, F), and attempting to put them in order with the pieces of paper (days on Tuesday, months on Thursday). He sang along unprompted. He didn’t need any prompting with the days of the week this week.

Printing words

He enjoys doing this activity and completed it on the fourth day this week. He’s working on making his letters smaller and more contained.

Counting objects/math-type activities

He did well on his counting. He needed help with his 5 and 7.

Storytime

We didn’t read week before last’s French books. Sickness took over our household.

Activity

Draw button designs, make buttons – we didn’t manage to make the actual buttons this week, so that will have to happen later on when we’re healthier. But he did do the drawings, and was very thoughtful about what to draw for each person.

Make Xmas tags from old Xmas cards – this didn’t happen this week due to sickness. We’ll do it later on when we’re healthier.

Pegasus loved this movie. He’s also familiar with it. He was extremely excited to write his letter to Santa.

Dance

I haven’t been doing much formally for this one. I’ll put music on and he’ll dance to it unprompted. (repeated from last week)

Music

He has been diligent about practising his scales and doing the exercises from the book. He also says out loud what the scale letters are as he plays them.

Crochet

We’re on break for now.

Basic Information

We alternated between listening to videos for the days of the week and months of the year (M, W, F), and attempting to put them in order with the pieces of paper (days on Tuesday, months on Thursday). He sang along unprompted. He didn’t need any prompting with the days of the week this week.

Printing words

He enjoys doing this activity and completed it on the second day this week. He’s working on making his letters smaller and more contained.

Counting objects/math-type activities

He did well on his counting. He didn’t need help with the printing of the numbers.

Storytime

We didn’t read last week’s French books. Sickness took over our household.

Activity

Write letter to Santa – Santa sent the letters for both kids to the printer at the end of last week. Pegasus was super excited, but reluctantly agreed to wait until Monday to fill it out. He was very enthusiastic about writing it and worked very hard to fill it out.

Geography – we sat down with an atlas and I explained how to use it and how everything affects everything else. Pegasus was very enthusiastic and remembered the Rockies long enough to tell Éric when he got home from work. While sitting on my lap, he thought that the US being called Canada’s pants was hilarious. 😉

Bake cookies – we have 8 types of cookies we want to bake this season. This week, we made my grandmother’s shortbread. I had planned on making a second cookie on the Friday, but both kids were sick, so we left it at just the one for this week. He already understands about the measurements, but I got to explain how to be precise (to my standards). We got a little messy. 😛

Pegasus doesn’t really remember Raya very well, as evidenced by his confusion about why the word “dragon” was one of his printing words this week.

Dance

I haven’t been doing much formally for this one. I’ll put music on and he’ll dance to it unprompted. (repeated from last week)

Music

He has been diligent about practising his scales and doing the exercise from the book. He also says out loud what the scale letters are as he plays them.

Crochet

Pegasus completed the poncho this week! He worked very hard and is very happy with the end result.

Basic Information

We alternated between listening to videos for the days of the week and months of the year (M, W, F), and attempting to put them in order with the pieces of paper (days on Tuesday, months on Thursday). He sang along unprompted. He didn’t need any prompting with the days of the week this week.

Printing words

He enjoys doing this activity and completed it on the third day this week.

Counting objects/math-type activities

He did well on his counting. He needed me to write a 5, but only asked for a 6 traced in the air, and he knew what a 7 looked like.

Storytime

We read last week’s French books on Monday at the dentist while we were waiting. Then we got new French books after the dentist. He learned some new words, like ‘dans’ and ‘ciel’.

Activity

Plan a menu for Boun’s Shrimp Boat – I felt like this was too limiting, so instead, we made a menu for Pegasus’s Restaurant! He had fun planning the menu items (I wrote them down verbatim) and then I helped him search for images in Canva. He shrank them and placed them in the appropriate places.

Make fruit jerky – This turned out pretty well. It was tasty, but we had a hard time flattening it so that it had even consistency. Pegasus did pretty much everything himself, too, which is excellent!

Make celebration banner – We changed this to an invitation to the opening of his restaurant. I wanted to explain how to keep design consistent in theme across similar products.