Singing, listening to different pieces, learning piano, learning guitar
Crochet
On break
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 a movie – write script, storyboard script, write out text (if any) Make a soot sprite – link to activity
Singing, listening to different pieces, learning piano, learning guitar
Crochet
On break
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
Play with makeup Fireworks with paint (link here) Make a puzzle (link here)
This is such a fun and diverse movie (visually), and I love the activities with it. Making ice cream is a new one, so I’m looking forward to trying that out!
Singing, listening to different pieces, learning piano, learning guitar
Crochet
On break
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 ice cream (link) Design Dreamland Learn about the moon – telescope, link
Singing, listening to different pieces, learning piano, learning guitar
Crochet
On break
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
Paper maché emotion balls – link Write touch and feel book Put touch and feel book together – link
Pegasus liked this movie, although Hexus scared him, and he thought the gloopy Hexus was a different character from the human-like Hexus, so that was kinda funny to discover.
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.
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 and keeping the words on the bottom line. I’m going to go over where letters belong on the line during March Break, I think.
Counting objects/math-type activities
He still has no problems with counting these, and I feel like his numbers have improved. He didn’t need my help with drawing the numbers.
Math worksheets. He REALLY likes these. He did them both on Monday because he was so excited to do them once again.
Storytime
We read 1 of the French library books this week.
Activity
Learn about the 3 R’s – Pegasus is incredibly enthusiastic about reusing materials (should I be worried?) after learning about how much it helps the environment. We’ll see what he comes up with.
Learn about the Amazon rainforest – When I asked him after we watched a video about the rainforest what he’d learned, he said, “Rainforests are important for breathing and need to be protected.” I think he got the important parts.
Plant bean seeds indoors – We planted yellow and green beans. I took out the yellow beans first, which were white, and then Pegasus thought that the green beans might be blue. He was surprised when they were black. He carefully placed the seeds in the bags and helped me water them.
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.
Don Bluth has made some excellent films, and I love discussing modifications to characters to give them a unique look. (and how they still have their similarities!) This is also a low-key activity week, which is perfect for before March Break.
Singing, listening to different pieces, learning piano, learning guitar
Crochet
On break
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
3 Rs Learn about the Amazon Rainforest Plant seedlings in the house
Pegasus was super invested in this movie. He liked when Judy and Nick worked together.
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.
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 and keeping the words on the bottom line. I think he’s getting better at this.
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 read 2 of the French library books this week.
Activity
Shapes Activity – We did this before the Blue Eye experiment discussion, essentially having the same conversation but with using shapes that he cut out. He seemed to catch on, which made the other discussion easier to follow for him.
Experiment Blue Eyes – We talked about the experiment while we were unloading the dishwasher. Pegasus was very indignant that one group of people had privileges just because of the way they looked. This led to discussions about the Holocaust, Gaza, and segregation.
Elephant Rescues – He enjoyed learning about the elephant rescue program, but was sad that their mothers died/were killed.
Singing, listening to different pieces, learning piano, learning guitar
Crochet
On break
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)
Pegasus enjoyed the movie. He said 22 was his favourite character. (Not surprised)
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.
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 and keeping the words on the bottom line. I think he’s getting better at this.
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.
Storytime
We got 4 new French library books. We read 2 this week.
Activity
Blues and jazz music – We listened to both and I talked about their history. See Dragon’s Soul Results for links.
Learn to meditate – Pegasus liked the meditation exercise I led him in. He even tried it on his own later.
Make a personality zine – I used the Personality Traits from this website to discuss the areas of his personality. He decided which words fit him best, and then he built the zine himself from my template. (I love that template.)
