We had crabs for art and literature today!
Aesop’s Fables: The Crab and His Mother
An old crab said to her son, “Why do you walk sideways like that, my son? You ought to walk straight.” The young crab replied, “Show me how, dear mother, and I’ll follow your example.”
The old crab tried, but tried in vain, and then saw how foolish she had been to find fault with her child.
Morals:
Art – Water Color from Nature
There was once a little Kid whose growing horns made him think he was a grown-up Billy Goat and able to take care of himself. So one evening when the flock started home from the pasture and his mother called, the Kid paid no heed and kept right on nibbling the tender grass. A little later when he lifted his head, the flock was gone.
He was all alone. The sun was sinking. Long shadows came creeping over the ground. A chilly little wind came creeping with them making scary noises in the grass. The Kid shivered as he thought of the terrible Wolf. Then he started wildly over the field, bleating for his mother. But not half-way, near a clump of trees, there was the Wolf!
The Kid knew there was little hope for him.
“Please, Mr. Wolf,” he said trembling, “I know you are going to eat me. But first please pipe me a tune, for I want to dance and be merry as long as I can.”
The Wolf liked the idea of a little music before eating, so he struck up a merry tune and the Kid leaped and frisked gaily.
Meanwhile, the flock was moving slowly homeward. In the still evening air the Wolf’s piping carried far. The Shepherd Dogs pricked up their ears. They recognized the song the Wolf sings before a feast, and in a moment they were racing back to the pasture. The Wolf’s song ended suddenly, and as he ran, with the Dogs at his heels, he called himself a fool for turning piper to please a Kid, when he should have stuck to his butcher’s trade.
What is the moral?
Today the kids wrote their own morals.
“Never trust your food…if it is alive.”
“I am dinner.”
“I want to dance before I am dinner”
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I love how each child has a different perspective.
Banana Cream Pie changed the ending and a wrote a more satisfactory moral.
“Just because little kids are acting stupid does not mean they get to live.”
I want to frame it and put it on my wall 😂
Kiss
Cat Kiss inspired by Gustav Klimnt!! Are you even kidding me right now?? Banana Cream pie is 10, and the way her mind works is just incredible to me.
Hands on equations is wonderful at teaching children how to think algebraically.
We are using the program for my eighth-grader, but everyone down to the second-graders can follow along and learn the concept of working with an unknown number in a math problem. We give this about 15-20 minutes of our morning time daily.
Teaching math concepts in a concrete way first is so important, and I love that someone else figured this out for me and made it easy to use and teach.
If you’ve never accidentally splashed a little pig blood on a library book, are you even a homeschooler?? 😬
It is a good thing that we had friends to join us in our science lab today, or it would have been a total fail.
(We were dissecting a pig heart- generously saved for us by friends who had a luao earlier in the fall.)
Despite her usual intrepid nature, Key Lime Pie was unwilling to be anywhere near the actual dissection. She did draw a beautiful diagram.
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Impromptu Celebration of the first day of the fall with hot cocoa/herbal tea and apricot kolache (left over from book club last night) #homeschoolrocks
Today Key Lime Pie and I looked up the word “tangible” in my handy Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate dictionary. This dictionary was a birthday gift from my dad when I turned 18.
Key Lime Pie and I laughed over our restating of the sentence
“What are the tangible rewards of this difficult project?”
As “Tell me what I get out of this- real stuff I can touch, not fluffy feel-good feelings.”
And “Show me the money!”
Love of words is a generational thing in my family.
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“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he or she needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”
Rachel Carson.
I’m halfway through “Last Child in the Woods” by Richard Louv, and I’m feeling smug about the emphasis on Natural Science in my Charlotte Mason homeschool. But also, I need to do better at learning about what is in our own backyard.
Today’s art lesson was on mixing brown.
Peach Pie painted our peach tree.
Key Lime Pie included a line from the poem “Rainforest” by Judith Wright in her painting. #howwealveary #charlottemasonirl
Marvelous Pigs in Satin 