Gabriel's first sock .
More Zebra sketches- this reminds me of art deco drawings.
Some recent geometry, Gabriel's dodecagon, followed by my dodecagon.
Gabriel's been busy working on geology these last couple of weeks, as his main lesson. There's been quite a lot of writing work, and we've been focusing on his cursive. Today we discussed the evolution of alchemy into chemistry, and elements. We've been using 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth' by Jules Verne, as our story for this block. Since Gabriel has finished his first sock, we've had a couple of weeks off, so he can focus on his main project for this year- making a zebra- before he gets onto doing sock no 2. Gabriel and I finished reading the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets together, and so we've moved on to the Lord of the Rings- The Fellowship of the Ring. Gabriel's goal is to improve his reading enough, that after reading the first book with me, he'll be able to do the others by himself.
Willow's geometry from the last week- making a variety of stars.
Willow is moving onto chemistry this block, and has also been busy progressing along her doll. She was hoping to finish the doll's hair last week, but unfortunately they'd run out of black wool. I've also ordered a square loom, so that Willow can do some weaving; she was thinking of doing a blanket out of squares. Last weekend Willow and Gabriel got to try out surfing at Trigg beach, as Willow won a voucher to try surfing.
Arden has been working on numbers and reading and writing them this block. Previously I'd done more of a creative of maths block for class 1, as in the waldorf style, but I really like the JUMP programme and how well it's worked for Willow and Gabriel, so I'm using it as the focus of our maths with plans to complement it with some of the creativity that accompanies waldorf.
We're coming to the end of term one, so I'm looking forward to a couple of weeks off. Will have to spend a bit of time, getting baby stuff sorted, so that we're ready for June. We've all still been learning rockabilly dancing, and have been getting a few lessons of kick step in before Gabriel has musicianship lessons back on. We've all been loving the dancing, and I've been trying to get lots in before the baby is born, as it will be tricky to get to lessons then.
