Moana is a favourite in our house, so he’s very familiar with both the dialogue and the story. He says he understood a lot of it, but I’m not sure how much he’s remembering.
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
This week, he was given an exercise from the first piano book. He is ridiculously excited about this. He is still practising the scale that he was taught as well.
Crochet
I helped him do several blocks of stitches… probably about 6 inches. He’s excited to be able to wear it, but there’s still so much left to do. In this vein, I have asked his permission to work on it when he’s not there, so that it actually gets completed before the end of the year. The first stripe is complete.
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.
Printing words
He has been improving slowly. I like that I don’t have to fight him to get him to do it. He is very pleased with himself for completing them, and usually writes more words than I ask him to do (I split them up over a couple days because he was overwhelmed that first week).
Counting objects/math-type activities
I tried a different method of helping him count, by having him write the number in each box. This won’t work every time, but he seemed to like it this week.
Storytime
We read the mini French books during the week. I am getting him to read the small words that he knows, like ‘le’ and ‘la’. He is very proud of himself for reading them.
Activity
Objects floating in water experiment – I had forgotten just how many skills this experiment teaches; cutting with scissors, forming a hypothesis, and then writing down the results. He did a great job cutting, he had no trouble formulating the hypotheses (although I’m not sure that he thought very hard about it), and then remembered what the results were in order to mark them down on the paper. He was a little upset that he got so many of them wrong, but I told him that experiments are more often about getting the wrong answer and then explaining why. That helped.
Star gazing – We learned about the planets (he is very enthusiastic about telling everyone that there are four gas giants in the solar system) and he coloured them in (sort of) to make a book. (He cut the pages using my paper cutter because it is SO MUCH FASTER than using scissors.) We chose to use the telescope on Saturday (the benefits of not being constrained to school hours). We went out to the park nearby our house because the moon was too low to look at from our house. We tried to find Saturn, and managed it, but when we tried to magnify, we lost sight of it. Pegasus and Dragon were both very excited to see the moon through the telescope, but they were very bored of how long it took to fiddle with it in order to see the moon properly.
Bake with coconut – He didn’t want to get his hands dirty, but we talked about fractions in cups, and he was very excited about the idea nad seemed to catch on at the end that a quarter cup would fit twice into a half cup and two half cups would fit twice into a whole cup. He really enjoys dumping things and measuring things, but not so much touching things with his hands, so he did a lot of the chocolate dunking with a fork and it worked well.
