Day 78

3rd March 2022

Beautiful English

The Good & The Beautiful (http://thehomeschoolyear.com/Good%20&%20Beautiful)

We started early this morning because I had to work from home and Liam was going to be out.

So, at 8am this morning Mila and I sat at the table munching on avocado toast and looking at this beautiful painting.

This was her English lesson.

First, we discussed the painting, the colours, the light and what we thought was happening in the picture, and then we had to find the nouns.

She pointed out the mountains, the man, the trees & the workers.

The we had to make them proper nouns by giving them names and then we had to write adjectives about the nouns.

What a lovely way to teach English.

Rather than just looking at words in a sentence and being asked to underline the nouns & adjectives. Mila was asked to pluck out the nouns from a beautiful painting and then used her imagination to add rich adjectives.

Her sentences were gorgeous.

I know I go on about this product a lot but, The Good & The Beautiful really is a beautiful and thoughtful curriculum that’s just full of art. If you are considering a tangible curriculum, I recommend this one.

We did the same exercise with this painting. After we added adjectives, the painting came to life in a whole new way.

Note the crop top & belly button. 😂 Apparently when you’re 8, all you want is a crop top!

The picture above is from her Good & Beautiful writing book. At the end of each page is an art exercise.

This is what she drew today.

The Brain

I loaned this great book about the human body from the library and today we learnt about the brain.

We learnt about left and right side, the different functions and then we played a game where I covered a series of random objects with a towel, they had 10 seconds to look at them and then they had 20 seconds to write down as many things as they could remember.

They loved doing this!

Mila won this one and was pretty chuffed with herself.

Then they tested me with a new range of objects and I only missed 3 from 14! My baby brain has finally left me. 😂 (I mean, I think. Am I supposed to get them all? 😬)