Week 40 – Beauty and the Beast Results

Pegasus loved this movie, and didn’t remember it from before. He liked Lumiere especially.

Dance

As per usual, I didn’t do anything specific for this. Here he is dancing to a video online.

Music

His scales are coming along nicely and he willingly practises both his scales and the pieces in the book.

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

Not sure I mentioned it, but he reads the short words and tries to sound out the bigger ones. He doesn’t know what happened with “chantant”. He didn’t notice the lines?

Counting objects/math-type activities

He focussed well this week. He is still pretending that he doesn’t know what each number means.

Math worksheets. He had a bit of trouble with 20-4. He got the 6 part of it, but put a 2 in front, and then got really upset when I told him it wasn’t correct. Once I calmed him down, I showed him why it was wrong and he understood and fixed it without trouble.

Storytime

We read several French library books this week. He did very well.

Activity

Learn table settings – I showed him the different levels of formality on Wednesday, and then had him recreate them on Friday. He remembered nearly everything. I was extremely impressed.

Make the grey stuff – It was delicious! He did the cookies entirely on his own, including counting them. He had a lot of fun. Like last time, white chocolate was substituted for chocolate due to my allergy. Black icing was added to make it grey. Hopefully he will continue to help in the kitchen this summer, because he seemed to be really enjoying it.

Make bookmarks – Dragon joined us in this activity. Pegasus decided he needed to make her a bookmark, and wrote her name (which I blurred out) and many hearts because he loves her so very much. (my heart!)

The Ottawa Small Press Book Fair

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Week 39 – Finding Nemo Results

Pegasus was very invested in this movie. He shouted things at the screen when they didn’t do what he wanted them to do.

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.

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

Pegasus was willing to change his letters a little bit, but spacing is still a problem, as is the size of the letters (l and t being tall letters, for example). He says “It’s fine” when I point it out.

Counting objects/math-type activities

He said he didn’t know what the numbers were in French, but he had no problem counting this week.

Math worksheets. He had a rough morning on Monday, so he found it really hard to focus. He needed me to walk him through the big additions, even though he knows them. (He was so disappointed that there were no subtractions, it was like his brain just gave up on him.)

Storytime

We read several French library books this week. He did very well.

Activity

Learn about shipwrecks – He said this was scary.

Make fish and chips – He was very excited to learn how to use the knife and was careful when doing so. He was very enthusiastic and he listened well. I don’t think it’ll be something that he’ll ask to make again.

Learn about sustainable fishing – He seemed interested, but didn’t have any questions.

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Week 40 – Beauty and the Beast

A classic from the Golden Age is a nice way to wrap up the school year.

Here is the link for the downloadable materials. (I hope this works…please let me know if you have any problems so I can fix it!)

MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
table settingWatch moviemake grey stuffFlexmake bookmark

Summary of the week

Daily details:

Dance

Ballet and martial arts on alternate days

Music

Singing, listening to different pieces, learning piano, learning guitar

Basic Information

We talk about the days of the week and play games with the cutouts of the names. We do the same thing with the names of the months of the year. You can find the print-outs here.

Printing words

Download material

Counting objects/math-type activities

Practice counting objects and writing how many of each type – (in download material)

Addition and pattern – worksheet

Storytime

Activity

Table settings – link to reference
Make grey stuff – link to recipe
Make bookmark – link to ideas; I’m thinking of doing the bookworm

Have a great summer!!

Week 38 – How to Train Your Dragon Results

Pegasus was enthralled by this movie. He had seen it before a long time ago, so it was a little like watching it for the first time. I forget how fast they talk, so I’m not sure how much of the nuance he got, but he understood the general plot. He was incredibly enthusiastic about the flying (and the music).

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.

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

Pegasus was willing to change his letters a little bit, but spacing is still a problem. He says “It’s fine” when I point it out.

Counting objects/math-type activities

A little trouble counting in French when he got distracted, but he was able to focus and get it all done.

Math worksheets. Zero problems with these. He did them so fast that he missed the ‘0’ on the 30 and 50, but he added them willingly.

Storytime

We got several French library books this week. He was very excited.

Activity

Design a dragon – He didn’t want to design a dragon from scratch, but he was quite happy to draw Toothless, so that is what we did. We used Art Hub’s instructional video (which is the series that we have been using since Dragon decided that we needed to do “art school” on Sundays). Pegasus reacts positively to these videos, so of course I said yes.

Make a paper boat – He did this entirely by himself (I only held the paper down so that it didn’t wiggle away on him). He was very proud of himself.

Learn about prosthetics – He enjoyed learning about the history of prosthetics and how they’re made, and we found some recent videos of a girl with prosthetics – he wanted to watch her opening her Christmas gifts. I think he liked the laid-back activity and cuddling up to me.

Week 39 – Finding Nemo

Pegasus loves this movie.

Here is the link for the downloadable materials. (I hope this works…please let me know if you have any problems so I can fix it!)

MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
learn about sustainable fishingWatch moviemake fish and chipsFlexlearn about shipwrecks

Summary of the week

Daily details:

Dance

Ballet and martial arts on alternate days

Music

Singing, listening to different pieces, learning piano, learning guitar

Basic Information

We talk about the days of the week and play games with the cutouts of the names. We do the same thing with the names of the months of the year. You can find the print-outs here.

Printing words

Download material

Counting objects/math-type activities

Practice counting objects and writing how many of each type – (in download material)

Addition and pattern – worksheet

Storytime

Activity

Make fish and chips – link to our recipe
Learn about sustainability in fishing – link to reference videos
Learn about shipwrecks – link to video (6 minutes)

Next week: Beauty and the Beast