I do not see enough cosplays of one of my favourite princesses – Merida! Her dress was an excellent copy from the movie. It looks like she might be friends with Aang too, or at the least Momo!

I missed the beginning of virtual school this week because I was in with Pegasus, but Dragon assures me that she sang the months of the year song and said that it was the month of mai.
Dragon also told the class that it is printemps and nuageux.
They learned the letter ‘X’ this week. Dragon had no problem writing all the words. (And she put the tails of the ‘p’s below the line!)
There was a bit of dancing before recess, which Dragon always enjoys.
She paid close attention to the story.
After lunch, the teachers taught the kids how to measure using objects. Dragon discovered that one of her books is a spoon and a half tall and a spoon and a bit wide.
Then Dragon got to present her movie from two weeks ago. The teacher played it four times. I think she was impressed. One of the kids asked how the toys moved by themselves, so Dragon had to explain that she took pictures and I moved the toys, and that string was used to lift the toys during the fight scene. I’m not sure the kids fully understood, but they kinda got it.
Homeschool went well this week.
She did ballet 2 times this week.
Piano: she practiced her finger exercises every day this week.
We started with the finger exercises. It is obvious she’s been practicing, so she’s been given another exercise to do to correct get hand positioning and strengthen her fingers. Then we did lessons 4, 5, and 6. Timing needs to be worked on, but she recognizes all the notes. She’s doing very well.
We have a French playlist that I can play through the Google mini, with a variety of artists.
We did not do any crochet this week.
We are working on yesterday (hier) and tomorrow (demain) around any given day. The months of the year is going well. We’re working on the month before and after any given month. That’s coming slowly.
The saisons de l’année are all memorized. We’re working on how each of them feel and the types of things we can do during each of them.
When I ask her “combien” for any of the above, she responds in complete sentences.
Printing went very well this week. I created a random string of number/letters and read them off to Dragon for her to print. She did very well, once she stopped worrying about making a mistake.
She had no problems with the counting worksheet. We counted by 10s to 100 and counted up to 100 a couple times. SHe also counted down from 10 with only one mistake. She was very excited to do this for the first time.
Math went well this week.
We read stories from the teacher’s outline that was sent to us on Monday. She enjoyed that, and we will continue to do it next week.
We watched Raiponce in French on Disney Plus, one episode a day. Dragon is enjoying it immensely, and is even recognizing some words!
Elements of a Fairy Tale – She got really into this. We came up with a short story on the spot each, neither of which made any sense, but that’s fine.
Learn about bears – She enjoyed the video and I found a couple others about cute cubs.
Bake Spell Cake – We decided to make something from Dragon’s Princess cookbook instead, so she made scones. They were delicious.
When I think about mothers in movies, Queen Eleanor is the first person who springs to mind. I love this movie and haven’t seen it in quite a while, and look forward to sharing it with Dragon. Hopefully she’ll neve turn me into a bear.
Here is the link for the downloadable materials. (Please let me know if you have any problems so I can fix it!)
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
Watch movie | elements of a fairy tale | bake Spell Cake | learn about bears | Flex |
Summary of the week
Daily details:
Ballet and martial arts on alternate days
Singing, listening to different pieces, learning piano
The project she is working on (currently she is making herself a poncho)
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.
In download materials
Practice counting objects and writing how many of each type – in download materials
Addition and pattern – worksheet in download materials
Elements of a Fairy Tale – sheet found in download materials
Bake Spell Cake – link to recipes
Learn about bears – link to references, link to video
Next week – Matilda
I love it when groups of friends really take a theme and run with it! this group went above and beyond.
Merida knows how to be brave. My thoughts go out to the firefighters and residents in Hay River, who are fighting a forest fire. (Link)
This costume designer whipped up this dress in a little under a week! Check out her website: jasminemb.com