Willow and Gabriel spent varying amounts of time at City Farm helping out and doing activities for the school holiday program there. Both had a fabulous time participating in woodwork, gardening, soap making, woodwork, amongst other things.
This week saw Willow finishing her apron finally -it looks amazing, and is just in need of an iron to finish it off nicely. (She hand sewed this).
She's now on her way to planning some slippers to make.
We finally received our JUMP workbooks, which I'm quite pleased about as it will simplify doing maths- no more copying questions out for me! We ordered a trial pack from grade 1-8, which offered one of each workbook. Perfect for us really, and I've been really happy with the way they arrange maths. Just need to pair it with the online teacher guides and we're all set.
Gabriel is still working on a block on ancient Egypt and we're reading Roger Lancellyn Green's book on Egyptian Myth. Willow is doing a musical block, looking at different regions of the world and progressing into medieval music, it ties in quite nicely with her musicianship classes, where they are looking at studying different musical pieces and learning about composers and notation.
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Willow changed from doing choral classes after our first year in Perth ( at this stage she was doing choral classes and suzuki flute), and shifted over the doing the Musicianship lessons which use the Kodaly method. We started off with a local flute teacher, but that wasn't working well for us, so we starting doing remote lessons with the teacher we had in Adelaide, then we had communication issues based off the distance, so we returned to local lessons with another teacher. We didn't have much success with local teachers TBH- this next one was rather temperamental, and so after a break, we moved onto private singing lessons- first with a jazz singer, and later with an Opera singer. This was all over the course of about 5 years.
