About a year ago I checked out the book Madeline from the library. Zoey did not like it. No big deal. When we started the Five in a Row curriculum I knew it was one of the books and wondered if I should do it or not. I decided to do it and just see what would happen. Well Zoey LOVED it. She loved the book, the activities, the character Madeline and we had a great week. Ugh well I will have to come back and finish this later...
Ah back now. It is the next day now let me see if I can finish this now.
We started off the week with finding France on the world map and reviewing the previous countries we have studied. I must use the word "studied" very loosely. I have books from the library about the country or US state and I attempt to get Zoey interested. She is somewhat interested but generally does not want to look at those books. I, however, am enjoying these books. lol Great pictures and fun information. The fun thing about this so far has been seeing what she wants to learn about and what she doesn't. This summer I would never of guessed that she would of gotten so interested in dead trees. She still finds dead trees and wants to talk about them, how they died, what is living in them, how long they have been there, ect. Anyways, she does love finding the place on the map that we are looking for. Sierra loves doing it too.
This week we had rainy days so one day I decided to set paints up in the garage with long pieces of paper to paint on. I figured they could run around in the garage when they were done. What a nice surprise when they were done painting it was done raining and they got to play outside! Sierra got very creative with the paints she got some in Zoey's hair and on the back of her skirt. I think they just bumped into each other. The last time we used paintbrushes outside we were painting on the driveway with homemade sidewalk paint so Sierra kept trying to take the brushes out of the garage. Zoey painted people and animals. There were detailed stories to go with each of her pictures too. The only thing I can remember is one of them was Amy and Emma walking her dog.
Zoey loved the vocabulary words again. We have done three words each week and she immediatly uses two of them in her play and conversations. I didn't think she would like it at all but she keeps surprising me. We lined up 12 bear counters in two lines then three lines and so on. Many different ways to divide up 12. Friday we had a wonderful time at a playground we had not been to before. I love having a picnic lunch at the park because there is almost no clean up. We finished the week by cooking a French dish for dinner.
We made quiche and the girls loved helping. Zoey was thrilled to get to crack the eggs, she did great, and only got one small piece of egg shell in the bowl. She was even more excited to use the blender. :-) While they both loved helping with making the dinner they did not like the quiche too much. Sierra said, "Nope," when I asked her if she liked it. Zoey said she liked it a little. The loved the French fruit platter that we had along with it. We also learned how to count in French this week. Zoey mixed it up with Spanish. It sounded pretty funny.
I must also add that I started and restared this post so many times. I actually finished it this morning only to have all that I added disappear. So if is choppy I am sorry.
How did your quiche turn out? I need a good quiche recipe. Sounds like another fun week. I love your idea to paint in the garage. Sometimes a change of scenery is needed! Cameron always suprises me about the things she is interested in too. Guess that's a good reason to expose them to so many different things. You never know. All right Ella is ready to get out of her highchair. Gotta run!
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