On Monday, Grant learned a new note on his penny whistle during his music lesson. He was very excited! I introduced a new form and we learned about the letter G. I told him the fairy tale of The Golden Goose. We practiced drawing the form and letter in the air, in flour, and on the chalkboard. (You will see the form drawing for this week in the background as the mountain range in the chalkboard drawing below.) We also started our drawing from the story.
Just as we are learning the letter G and talking about geese, we got a visit from six geese Tuesday morning as they landed on our lake. I guess we got a little too close for comfort while we were on our walk and they flew away. Once inside, Grant did some copy work and then we wrote his summary from The Golden Goose in his lesson book, and we finished our drawing. While Grant was doing his copy work, I did a "lesson" with Johanna and read her a fun book about geese that we checked out from the library. When we went outside, Grant, Johanna and I played "squirrel chase". I tucked silks into the back of their pants to give them squirrel tales and then we ran around chasing each other trying to pull the silks out. They had a lot of fun doing this. Julia wasn't quite fast enough for this game, yet.
Mom's Golden Goose Drawing
Grant's Golden Goose Drawing
Grant's copy work.
Squirrel Tail!
On Wednesday, we learned about the letter K. I taught Grant a new tongue twister: "Kindly Kittens Knitting mittens Keep Kazooing in the King's Kitchen." I read Grant the story of King Thrushbeard. This was one of my favorite Grimm's fairy tales so far. We modeled some very basic King Thrushbeard's out of beeswax. Grant thought they should be surfing, so they are standing on their surfboards. The pink and green mound in front is Johanna's creation.
Here is a picture of the finished pottery that the children painted a few weeks ago. They were very proud of them!
On Thursday, we reviewed K, wrote the King Thrushbeard summary in Grant's lesson book, and drew the form and the letter K is his lesson book. That finished Grant's first lesson book, and Grant loves looking at it and showing it to people.
We have been enjoying the nice weather this week!
