The first strawberries are here! Charlotte found one in our backyard -- we have quite a few wild ones. They are great ground covers for people who never find time to garden.
Jonathan spent some time describing our last experiments. Writing is not one of his favorite pastimes and so I'm always glad when he composes his descriptions all by himself.
We also added a poem by Robert Frost to our unit on heat.
Miriam and I started to learn about cardinal directions through a story about a father taking his son fishing at sunrise. They walk towards the rising sun and the father points out that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Following that description, the story introduces the other two directions through drawings of children playing on the west and east of a path. We then practiced the directions through commands like walk towards the west, jump towards the south, wave at the north, etc.
Miriam and I started to learn about cardinal directions through a story about a father taking his son fishing at sunrise. They walk towards the rising sun and the father points out that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Following that description, the story introduces the other two directions through drawings of children playing on the west and east of a path. We then practiced the directions through commands like walk towards the west, jump towards the south, wave at the north, etc.
For religion, Miriam finished the Bible stories of the New Testament in The Catholic Bible in Pictures. We also read in The Catholic Mother's Helper in Training Her Children and Their Hearts Are His Garden: Stories for Children. Those two last books are very helpful for preschool through grade 1 or 2.
Most of the afternoon was spent getting ready for ballet pictures. We spent about four hours on the preparation and picture taking. Now we need new hairspray! While waiting for the children at the studio, I took along four books I'm considering for next school year: The Story of the Greeks, The Story of the Greek People, The Age of Discovery, and A Little History of the World. As far as I could tell, they are all good books. Has anybody used any of them for 5th, 6th, or 7th grade?
Die ersten Erdbeeren sind hier! Charlotte hat sie gefunden. Wir haben eine ganze Menge Walderdbeeren im Garten, eine wunderbare bodenbedeckende Pflanze für Leute, die nicht so viel Zeit im Garten verbringen können.
Jonathan hat heute seine Physikexperimente beschrieben. Schreiben gehört nicht unbedingt zu seinen Lieblingsbeschäf-tigungen und so freue ich mich immer, wenn er eine Beschreibung ganz alleine zu Stande bekommt. Wir haben auch ein Gedicht von Robert Frost zu unseren Experimenten hinzugefügt. Miriam hat heute die Himmelsrichtungen gelernt, indem wir eine Geschichte von einem Vater gelesen haben, der bei Sonnenaufgang mit seinem Sohn angeln gegangen ist. Der Vater belehrt den Jungen, daß die Sonne im Osten aufgeht und daß sie in der entgegengesetzten Richtung wieder untergeht, also im Westen. Von da ist es nicht mehr schwierig, auch die beiden anderen Richtungen zu lernen. Unser Buch hat dafür spielende Kinder auf einem Weg dargestellt und dazu kurze Beschreibungen mit den jeweiligen Richtungen angegeben. Dann haben wir die Himmelsrichtungen mit Befehlssätzen geübt, z. B. "Geh in den Westen!", "Lauf in den Süden!", "Hüpf in den Norden!" usw.
In Religion hat Miriam das Neue Testament der Catholic Bible in Pictures mit mir zu Ende gelesen. Wir haben auch weiter in The Catholic Mother's Helper in Training Her Children und Their Hearts Are His Garden: Stories for Children, zwei Bücher, die man sehr gut für den Religionsunterricht für etwa Dreijährige bis Achtjährige benutzen kann, Geschichten gehört.
Den Nachmittag haben wir mit Vorbereitungen für den Fototermin im Ballettstudio verbracht. Die Vorbereitungen und Fotos haben ungefähr vier Stunden gedauert. Jetzt brachen wir neues Haarspray! Während ich auf die Kinder im Studio gewartet habe, habe ich in vier Bücher reingeschaut, die ich eventuell nächstes Schuljahr benutzen will: The Story of the Greeks, The Age of Discovery, The Story of the Greek People und Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser. Sie haben mir alle gut gefallen. Falls irgendjemand eine Meinung zu diesen Büchern hat, würde ich mich sehr freuen.
Amethyst
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Hello Eva!
ReplyDeleteI think I lost my first comment, so I'll try again. :)
The children are so beautiful in their ballet costumes! I'm sure the photos will be really lovely.
We used Guerber's Story of Rome when Andrew (now 16) was in 6th grade. Her (Guerber's) writing style is lively and engaging, and we really enjoyed her stories. There were too many chapters to fit tidily into our Main Lesson Block, so I had to pick-and-choose which stories to use. Between Kovacs and Guerber, I do prefer Kovacs, but Guerber is a delightful author.
May I ask what kind of notebooks Jonathan is using for Science? They seem to be lined on one side and blank on the other? I would like to find a notebook like that for Gracie.
Thank you! :)
Lauri
Lauri, thank you so much for the compliment about the children. They are very excited about the recital. Thank you also for your comment on the books. I still haven't decided which ones to use, but I saw that
ReplyDeleteMain Lesson recommends the Tappan over the Guerber book for a Waldorf education.
I buy most of my main lesson books at
A Toy Garden . Their main lesson books are the Mercurius ones. My son does better with lines and I was getting tired of drawing lines for him in the plain main lesson books.