cm learning journal

  • A Feast of Ideas
    Claude Monet Art Appreciation
    A Quote from Much Ado About Nothing
    Shakespeare books
    Simply Draw Session 1
    Simply Draw Session 2
    History and Geography
    Measuring Flour
    First time using the hand mixer
    Chopping the dark chocolate bar
    Placing the cookie dough balls on the tray
    Cooking pancakes
    Chores plus By Pond and River Read aloud
    Indoor walk
    Reading Lessons
    Copywork

    This week in our life school:


    🎨 Beauty & Story
    – Art Appreciation: Claude Monet’s Garden at Sainte-Adresse
    – Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing: lessons in love, deception, and truth

    – Simply Draw app

    – Stories of history: Gabriela Silang & Magellan

     

    🧁 Life Skills
    – Baked cookies that didn’t turn out good 🤭 (but still a win!)
    – Pancakes for breakfast

    – Chores while listening to Buckley’s “By Pond and River” 

    – Indoor walk to prep for a fun run

     

    And a sprinkle of math, handwriting, and reading lessons in between. 😉

     

    Short lessons, as always reminded by Charlotte Mason, but a feast indeed! 

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  • Music, Handicraft, Week 2
    DIY Mini Dollhouse
    K cuts out some parts of the miniature pencil holder.
    T is building a miniature book.
    Placing the miniature pencil holder on the study table.
    T watching K do her piano lesson
    K on the piano
    T's first time using simply piano.

    1-4: This quarter’s handicraft focus is building mini dollhouses. It’s been a rich learning experience: sewing, cutting, measuring, and pasting, all while cultivating the habit of attention.

     

    5-7:  We’re trying out Simply Piano for a month. 1st day today and the kids are finding it a bit difficult. We’re still considering Hoffman Academy. We’ll see how it goes. 

     

    We’re on our 2nd week of the school year! Grateful for this season of learning. 💛

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  • Region 3 Mapwork
    Region 3 Mapwork
    T and K working on the puzzle together
    T and K working on the puzzle together
    T and K working on the puzzle map

    Today’s mapwork: a DIY puzzle of the map of Region 3 made from corrugated cardboard. The blank and labeled maps we use are from https://thestoryfelters.com.

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