Our Spring Break is over and I have a new homeschool blog. Come join us over at Classical Charlotte.
Spring Break
So we’re taking a couple of weeks for Spring Break. We went to Grandma and Papa’s today, Descanso Gardens yesterday and tomorrow we’re going to spend a couple nights down in San Diego. During the break I am going to be transitioning to a new job (going from a 5 day a week school schedule to a clinic where I will work just 4 days a week), planning some changes for the rest of this school year and also for the start of her Kinder year. Plus I am hoping to transition this blog to my own domain with a new name and look. I am hoping to work on the blog tomorrow before we head out on our trip. We will see!
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Tightrope Walking
We’ve been taking it easy here due to illness but yesterday we did walk some videos on YouTube showing high wire walking.
Pareeeee
Mirette lives in Paris, France (as did Madeline) so we continued our discussion of France by learning a little bit about its capital. We looked at photos, read up on the Eiffel Tower (which she is now attempting to recreate with her Legos) and watched a video of photos. Doo announced she wanted to live in France. I said maybe we’d visit some day. 
Madeline, France and Mirette on the Hire Wire
Since both Madeline and Mirette on the Hire Wire take place in Paris, France I combined the 2 readings today to go along with our France lesson. After the reading we read a little bit about France and watched a few videos on Youtube showing images from the country. Doo also did a connect-the-dot activity from Enchanted Learning. Today was our last Madeline reading and we will continue with Mirette.
I am going to have a schedule change in mid-April so I have been planning on extending our homeschool lessons beyond just what we do with FIAR. Once I get everything worked out I’ll post more here.
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Tagged Five in a Row, Madeline, Mirette On The Hire Wire, Social Studies
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Madeline the Movie
Mama is still sick and after a day of work doesn’t have much steam left. Netflix was kind enough to bless us in the mail today with the full length Madeline movie so we are going to watch it after rereading the book.
Free Bird Study Notebook
Currclick’s freebie this week is a nature journal for birds. Cool!
The Human Body
Madeline has her appendix out in the story so today we learned a little bit about the human body. I found a cute site that shows animated videos about parts of the body:
And then Doo colored a human body coloring sheet.
Mama’s human body is aching this weekend – yesterday I woke up to a head cold and sore throat. Boo. Today seems better then yesterday so that’s good.
Madeline and a picnic
Yesterday Doo made a little Madeline craft and then we watched My Fair Madeline which was a short animated movie that we got free through Netflix streaming (Xbox.)
Earlier in the day we had a picnic – I like this spot because it’s almost always deserted and Doo can explore far off from me while I keep an eye on her. She had fun finding birds in trees, playing with sticks, looking over our nature books and finding ladybugs. It was a beautiful, sunny, warm day.
Madeline
Today we rowed Madeline, which is the well known story about a little girl in Paris who has appendicitis and goes to the hospital. Doo was familiar with Madeline because we own Madeline and the Gypsies.
We did just a simple counting activity with cutouts of the girls from the story. Doo slowly counted them out (after I reminded her to slow down) and then placed them in a pocket. Unfortunately, the Madeline girls PDF is no longer available at the link on Homeschool Share – good thing I saved it to my computer when I saw it months ago.
