Week 6 of homeschool: we grew crystals, made a desert oasis, baked Martha Washington’s ginger cookie recipe (history is delicious!), learned about Louis Pasteur and his discovery of germs & vaccines, wrote a letter to an imaginary friend in China, made our own artwork in the style of post-abstract artist Rousseau and memorized the first 6 weeks of the Timeline of world history!
Week 5 of homeschool: we did fingerprint art, wrote a character-story about a shy opera singer, saw cuttlefish, penguins and much more at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, tested rates at which various liquids freeze, learned about France then went to a French patisserie, made abstract puddle art, spotted otters, starfish and hermit crabs in the wild, made historical pop-up pages and saw California Historical Landmark # 1!
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!
