Madeline's Rescue

We're back! This week we are rowing Madeline's Rescue. Madeline falls into the Seine River and a very special dog comes to the rescue.
Geography: The River Seine
Madeline was rescued from the River Seine in Paris. Locate the river on a map. What famous church is located on an island of this river? (Notre Dame)
Tomorrow we'll be doing a sequence of events activity and Vocabulary/Dictionary Skills, we'll get a chance to look up some words from the story that we had never heard before in the dictionary.
Science: Animal welfare. In the story, the officials kick the dog out of the school. Discuss why this in inhumane and unacceptable.
On Friday we may take a field trip to our local animal shelter to see what happens to pets who are no longer wanted.

We started math as well, A6 had to practice her numbers, for some reason we had lots of letter practice this summer but not enough number practice. We'll be doing math four days a week as well as handwriting and phonics 3 times a week.
Starting next week and every Wed we'll be doing either Library day, home economics, health & nutrition or music. We will NOT have story time that day nor math or handwriting.

I started doing Letter of the Week with X4.
This week is letter: A, number: 1, color: blue & shape: square. He got to color some stuff blue including a square. He seems to be enjoying that more.
This takes about 5 to 10 minutes plus story time, another 15 to 20 minutes depending on the book and how many questions they ask while I'm reading.

For A6 we are doing close to 2 1/2 hours of school.

A6 wants to continue doing girl scouts which will be three Mondays a month this year. COOP will be starting on the 12th of this month and from what I hear they are going to be doing really cool stuff! I don't want to overwhelm her with too many activities since we also have Clubs and Small groups during the week plus my Ladies Bible study on Tuesdays afternoon.

This year is going to be a busy one which means I won't be able to blog as much but I will try to always post what we are doing for the week and if we do something different or unexpected I'll blog about it as well.