We are joining with Eva and Flora and the Live Ed, Grade Three Waldorf Curriculum. For those of you not familiar with the Waldorf setting, children aged 8-9 years are in grade three as opposed to grade four in a regular school programme. Pip therefore will be following grade three for her main lesson work and grade four for all her other subjects, English, maths, science and humanities.
Eva has been extremely helpful in sharing what blocks she will be teaching and when, so this means that Pip and I can join in from across the pond :-) Today's first lesson was all about wheat. We lit the candle and sang our harvest song 'We plough the fields and scatter.'
We then read the story of wheat from the curriculum book, followed by the 'harvesting story' in the Pioneer Sampler book.
By then it was time to watch three programmes relating to wheat, one using industrial processing and the other a more simplified model:
Watching the programmes inspired us to make our own Harvest Bread and for the first time ever we successfully plaited a gluten free loaf!
Pip had fun being involved in all aspects of the bread making. From finding the ingredients, to weighing and measuring but I think her most favourite by far, was kneading :-)
Ben had made spiced carrot soup for lunch and the bread was enjoyed with butter and a cup of tea as a 'dessert.' I had forgotten that I react badly to home made bread ( which will explain why I very rarely make it!) probably because of the amount of yeast used and so consequently my insides have been grumbling along all day. At least now I know how to treat the problems and that by sticking to the paleo plus diet any gut flare ups are short lived.
After lunch, whilst Ben washed the pots and tidied the kitchen, Pip mowed the lawns. It was then time for maths and our last lesson of the day which involved our Patchwork Prayer book. And would you believe it, the prompt for the day was bread!
So sorry you had a GI flare ... I have to be so super careful! I cannot have grains of any kind any more, ever ... One adjusts! (Today I am having an unhappy flare thanks to the antibiotics I have had to take for the whooping cough: they don't help the illness! What they do is make you non contageous so you don't have to be quarantined for weeks and weeks ... I suppose it is worth it, but this pain is dreadful). Ah well! With prayer and time all will be well once more!!
Oooh, how funny that the prompt was Bread!!?!! Goincidence! The plait looks very nice though I am sorry that it was not nice to your inards! I never had any success making bread- it always went wrong when I made it!x
You did a wonderful job!!! So much in one lesson! We also read in the Pioneer Sampler about harvesting. We have not read the Live Ed story about wheat, but will do so this week still. Flora made a title page for her main lesson book about farming. Unfortunately, her NF 1 was showing itself through really bad headaches so that she could not do much. She did do some English and Math later, but complained about her head all day long. We also did some religion towards evening and Peter helped her with some map reading skills while I was teaching my second German class.
I am still not done writing daily lesson plans for each girl. It is complicated because we have not figured out who will be driving to ballet and when. We have classes every day, but Peter and I cannot drive every day, so we are working on figuring out some carpooling. I am almost done with Miram's daily plan. I guess Charlotte will come next, then Flora, and Veronika.
Anyway, tomorrow Flora will do the page about the harvest moon (in the Pioneer Sampler) and make a simple weather chart to put into her main lesson book. She will then watch the weather and record it every day, including measuring the temperature. Tomorrow is full moon: The Harvest Moon! You can make the observations very simple or also combine them with measuring the amount of rainfall you get. You could also make a moon phase chart. A great, longer book to start now, would be "Peter and Anneli's Journey to the Moon". You can find it on Amazon. It is not scientific, but lovely.
So sorry to read that Flora was suffering with an all day headache. I know what headaches and migraines are like and so sympathise greatly :-(. Thank you for the info about the harvest moon we will follow those suggestions for today! Much love San and Pip 😺
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What a lovely homeschool day! :-)
So sorry you had a GI flare ... I have to be so super careful! I cannot have grains of any kind any more, ever ... One adjusts! (Today I am having an unhappy flare thanks to the antibiotics I have had to take for the whooping cough: they don't help the illness! What they do is make you non contageous so you don't have to be quarantined for weeks and weeks ... I suppose it is worth it, but this pain is dreadful). Ah well! With prayer and time all will be well once more!!
Oooh, how funny that the prompt was Bread!!?!! Goincidence!
The plait looks very nice though I am sorry that it was not nice to your inards! I never had any success making bread- it always went wrong when I made it!x
You did a wonderful job!!! So much in one lesson! We also read in the Pioneer Sampler about harvesting. We have not read the Live Ed story about wheat, but will do so this week still. Flora made a title page for her main lesson book about farming. Unfortunately, her NF 1 was showing itself through really bad headaches so that she could not do much. She did do some English and Math later, but complained about her head all day long. We also did some religion towards evening and Peter helped her with some map reading skills while I was teaching my second German class.
I am still not done writing daily lesson plans for each girl. It is complicated because we have not figured out who will be driving to ballet and when. We have classes every day, but Peter and I cannot drive every day, so we are working on figuring out some carpooling. I am almost done with Miram's daily plan. I guess Charlotte will come next, then Flora, and Veronika.
Anyway, tomorrow Flora will do the page about the harvest moon (in the Pioneer Sampler) and make a simple weather chart to put into her main lesson book. She will then watch the weather and record it every day, including measuring the temperature. Tomorrow is full moon: The Harvest Moon! You can make the observations very simple or also combine them with measuring the amount of rainfall you get. You could also make a moon phase chart. A great, longer book to start now, would be "Peter and Anneli's Journey to the Moon". You can find it on Amazon. It is not scientific, but lovely.
So sorry to read that Flora was suffering with an all day headache. I know what headaches and migraines are like and so sympathise greatly :-(. Thank you for the info about the harvest moon we will follow those suggestions for today! Much love San and Pip 😺
Yes to a God-incidence! Hope your first day back at the helm went well ❤️😀
Thinking of you, whooping cough is exhausting and incessant ❤️
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