Week 4 of homeschool: we wrote our own Code of Justinian, did a scavenger hunt in the Sequoias, read The Wind in the Willows, reimagined a Joan Miro painting (with an impromptu art lesson from Grampy) learned about clefs, sharps and flats, transposed Antonio Dvorak’s Symphony #9 to solfege (Field did it completely by himself), and made a clay cheetah!
Week 3 of homeschool: we memorized all the presidents of the United States & all the States, made a compass (with Granny), learned 1st conjugation imperfect tense Latin, planted our bean sprouts, examined density in various liquids, made a medieval manuscript, created abstract art and made an Alexander Calder style mobile!
Great second week of school! We made a Celtic double-sided ax, wrote a story about a parachuter, grew shoots and roots from dried beans, simulated the rings of Saturn, created art from complimentary colors and our chrysalis hatched into a beautiful fritillary butterfly!
Crazy, awesome week of school! We ate like ancient Romans, kept a tally sheet at a Major League Baseball game, captured a caterpillar that spun into a chrysalis, made a Roman signum, started an ant farm, made color wheels, read George MacDonald, soared over Europe on a magic carpet, listened to classical music, danced, sang – and then collapsed, from the sheer joy of LEARNING!
