Towards the end of the term we spent a month looking at poetry, in different styles and learning about metres, and how to understand them. Arden and I worked together to come up with the our own poems in the various rhythms.
We have a few poetry books at home, but I figured we needed a greater variety for this, so collected some more from the library.
The poetry books we used.
During this time we were also reading Beowulf.
Plus we ordered a denk fire bowl to use in the colder weather. It doesn't really get cold in Perth, just overnight, so we got up early on Winter solstice and made a small damper to bake in the embers of our bowl.
It got a bit stuck to the aluminium foil, but was still delicious!
We were playing hopscotch whilst out and about for a while, after meeting a lady who drew up a game of it for us!
Arden recently finished reading Hemmingway's "Old Man and the Sea".
We read "Tom Sawyer" earlier in the year, and we used Kovacs' "Ancient Rome" as well as Emily Frenkel's version of "Aenas" for Arden's first block on Ancient Rome.
Third time around we are using "Lingua Latina" for Latin.
Irving and I had been working on some cursive, helping to build up his familiarity with the alphabet.
Irving experimenting with celtic knot patterns.
Irving and Arden working on geometry. Irving likes to join in, so he does the bits he can manage.
I'm still working on this,just recently traced the quilting image onto it, unfortunately it won't be ready til next winter!
Irving is starting to get the hang of skateboarding.
