This is a sweet little book, and it really ought to be in every child's library. It's a story of a young bull named Ferdinand, who grew up to love sitting under a cork tree smelling flowers rather than fighting like all the other bulls. Mane and I discovered today that Disney made a movie of the story, and you can watch it on youtube:
While we read the book for the second time to day, Mane picked out common & proper nouns, as well as the one interjection in the story. She drew a page for Ferdinand in her school notebook this morning while I read more to her out of the Jewish holidays book. She's finished memorizing Psalm 23, and we began work on The Lord's Prayer this morning.
Last week I didn't write here at all. It isn't that we didn't do anything, but, rather, that we were extremely busy. On Monday we did all our regular math & reading, read a book called A-Z India, and made fresh squeezed orange juice. We ended up talking about fractions while we made orange juice because we saw how much juice we got from one orange & then from two oranges, and we estimated how much would be needed to make a cup of orange juice. We talked more about how we know that a food is a fruit (because it has seeds in it) and printed a page of pictures of fruits with the seeds showing for her school notebook. We also split up the big long timeline we began two years ago and put it in a three ring binder in order to make it easier to add things to the timeline in the future.
Tuesday we went to the Minneapolis Institute of Art with some other homeschoolers. We made our way through a whole lot of the museum and then spent time letting the children play together in the family room at the Institute. It's so inspiring to see Mane recognize pieces of art that she's seen before and watch her discover new things. I'm always interested to see the types of things that interest her.
Wednesday we rode our bikes to Bible Study. When we got home Aurora's grandma came to pick her up and she went to spend the night with grandma so that Mango & I could go to the Education Minnesota conference on Thursday. I went to an absolutely excellent workshop on teaching U.S. history using picture books. The workshop was done by 6th grade teacher and children's book author, Pat Bauer, and her husband, a children's book illustrator, David Geister. After the workshop we went to the keynote address entitled "Life in the Next America," regarding the influence of immigration on America today by Ray Suarez. Here an interview with Ray Suarez here.
Friday we had a birthday party for Vespera. She had some friends come for dinner, a movie, and a sleepover! Mane got to watch reading Rainbow episodes and play, play, play for most of the day while we all made preparations for the party.
Today we have our homeschool group in the afternoon. Mane took test 7 in her math book & is ready to move on to lesson 8. She's about 2 weeks away from finishing 1st grade Hooked on Phonics, and then we'll be ready to begin the 2nd grade level!! Yeah! She's paying attention to signs and reading everything everywhere. We've seen tremendous improvement with practice and a solid program. The repetition of Hooked on Phonics seems to be the key to success for her.
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