Most of this week’s records got lost in a computer accident, but I think it was a quiet week on the homeschooling front, with lots of free play with friends. There was quite a bit of socialising on the adult front as well.

Lessons

• I think we did them on one day: narration from Le Feuilleton d’Hermes, and a bit of dictation

The Unschooled Stuff

Language Arts

• Wrote herself a to do list, probably inspired by Frog and Toad
• She finished teaching herself the Lapin de Septembre poem

Reading

• A lot of independent reading due to travel time in the car and some adult time.
• We co-read Magical Animals from Usborne Young Readers

Maths/Logic

• Got Mike to print her out a list of long numbers e.g dodecahillions or whatever they are, and discussed scientific notation with him
• Played with the tangrams

Science/Nature Study

• Walk of exploration along favourite stream
• Various brainpops
• Watched a David Attemborough on mammals
• Informal review of continents and oceans on the globe – and how to find the shortest route across the globe using a piece of string
• Learned and spotted the constellation Cassiopeia

Arts and Crafts

• A fair bit of free drawing
• Some experimental watercolour painting
• She made a paper sculpture of a fish
• We made modular origami houses together
• We looked at Matisse’s paper cut-outs
• She designed and built an indoor tunnel tent cabane

Music

• Lots of piano playing
• Listened to some jazz

Sports

• Got her first beginners ski pass and outgrew it the same day. She skis as fast as the slope will let her, swerves around fearlessly, but I have no idea if she can stop.
• Ball throwing and catching practice.
• Went swimming

Games

• Played a computer game on Mike’s cell phone. I don’t know why.
• Played Poisson Rouge a little bit
• Lego, a little bit

Out and about

• The back end of the sleepover on one day
• Afternoon with friends at the park and their house
• Another whole day of play with friends who then came to dinner
• An adult dinner party
• Went out for lunch in a restaurant

Special mention

• I tried to get her morally prepared for the homeschool inspection. Unfortunately, I don’t know what it’s going to be like. We discussed various behaviours that might not be ideal, mostly by modelling them, so we had a good laugh. Some of them came as a surprise to her (we don’t have to give the inspector a present!), and I just don’t think she is at a suitable social development stage to handle the kind of ‘professional’ relationship to adults that I think they are going to dump on her.