The book this week was Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans. We're big fans of Madeline around here - we sometimes get the cartoon DVDs from the library. This is the original story of the twelve little girls in two straight lines, and Madeline gets sick and has to have her appendix removed.
Monday: We did a short math activity of sorting pennies into "twelve girls in two straight lines" so how many pennies were in each line. We rearranged them a couple of different ways, and then Sunny started building a "water fountain" with them. Art project?
Tuesday: Mom had a sick day. No reading.
Wednesday: We looked for Paris landmarks in the illustrations, and compared them to the landmark pictures in the book Dodsworth in Paris by Tim Egan.
Thursday: As we were reading, we stopped on words that Sunny and Posy didn't know the meanings of and we ended up with 6 vocabulary words: Paris, frighten, appendix, ambulance, solemn and disaster.
Friday: We looked again at the Paris landmarks in the illustrations, and then got on the computer to see regular pictures of some of them. My brother and sister-in-law went to Europe a few years ago, and Sis emailed me some of their photos of Paris.
2 comments:
I love and miss Madeline! One of my favorites!
Sounds like a really fun approach. My backyard neighbor (who has always homeschooled her 9yo girl) has a similar lit-based curriculum she's going to hand down to me. I'm excited to give it a go!
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