Madeline

I’m happy to report that it’s the third week of school and we have momentum and aren’t ready to take a break, haha! This is actually a big accomplishment with a baby and toddler who try to derail us all.day.long. It’s okay they are cute and worth it. This week, there were more opportunities for them to participate because we were studying Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans. 

In the morning, we continued with our quiet time. In Handwriting, we worked on the letter M for Madeline. And in the afternoons, we continued daily with our math and reading lessons. Reading is getting more complex so we are trying to move at a little bit of a slower to keep progressing and having an enjoyable experience…so far so good.

On Monday, everyone was introduced to our Madeline doll we borrowed from a friend and we read our story. It was fitting that Madeline has an appendix surgery in the story because it gave us a chance to talk about surgery and how it went positively...so much so all the other girls wished they could have surgery too! Even Madeline, the doll, had a perfect little scar! Madeline lives in France so we flew all the way from Ohio to France. We noticed that when we put our story disc on the map that Madeline lives half way between America and China. We made the flag of France and learned how to say hello and good bye in French. We took a break to watch Madeline and eat Madeline cookies from France :)

Afternoon reading work!

Tuesday, we learned how to draw Madeline and Silas did such a great job! I’m in love with his drawings. We talked about compassion and how the girls “smiled at the good and frowned at the bad”. Silas awesome built a great Eiffel tower out of legos.

Wednesday, we abandoned our morning activities to go to the library like the girls went our a half past nine and we checked out all the Madeline books we saw, and some other really good ones like a CHOMP book for Ezra and The Little Prince because we have been wanting to read it! We came home and read a few of our books and then returned to our Madeline and France studies. We read the other Madeline books and they were just as good as the first! They also are written like a poem and have several rhyme words. We thought of many additional rhymes. We also learned how to draw the Eiffel tower. Silas did such a good job and really loves drawing and art. Sadly, mommy's phone broke right here and so ends the pictures that day!

Thursday is our experiment day and we experimented making the Eiffel Tower out of wafer cookies and frosting. Our towers came crashing down and then we gobbled them up. We also studied how some of the art was true to life and other drawings were monochromic and we practiced doing that with two identical pictures of the Eiffel tower. We colored 12 little girls and drew Miss Clavel to finish off our unit study. 

Ezra wanted to be apart of it! 

We had such a great time this week and the unit studies are our favorite...so thankful for Five In A Row! These studies are helping us creating such rich memories!