I always planned on doing school year round, but life has showed me the greatness of taking a break for a time to let everything settle and process through play. We built a fortress with a sheet on chairs and brought in his easy readers to sit and read in the fort! Then he asked for me to read him a math story called Gnomes and Gnumbers, a great free online waldorf math story guide with activities. I think we will spend some time doing the activities with this story since we all like it, and hey, it's math learning that they both ask for! We have also been taking the free time to play games and focusing on drawing and painting, and I am doing more deep cleaning and rearranging the school room. We checked out a bunch of easy readers from the library for him to practice reading. He loves Dr. Seuss!
Geography: We read stories from the Germany book list, colored the map and flag, and stamped our passports after a train ride. Most of the stories are Grimm's fairy tales, some of which we didn't like because of the witches and sad endings, and then they weren't teaching much about Germany anyways. We decided to hop back on the train and head to France next week.
Science: We're using Otter Science for a story-based study of the human body. We read a good book called I Know How My Cells Make Me Grow, a fun story, not too dry. Next week I hope to draw some cells and maybe bring out the microscope.
I'm sorry to say that the camera doesn't seem to be working with my computer. I took a whole bunch of pics and they won't upload. The dvd player isn't working either. I'm hoping to fix this so I can share pictures again soon.
Thanks again to everyone reading this for your care and love and support, we appreciate it. I'm realizing that learning how to love each other and God is the most important thing to learn in this life. Jesus knew what he was talking about when He said the most important commandment is to "Love the Lord with all your heart, mind, and soul, and love your neighbor as yourself."
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