Welcome to our 2022-2023 school term. Our schedule is Sun, Mon, Tues, Thurs, and Fri. We chose to take Wednesdays as a break, similar to the way the children of France are educated. We began with an easy transitional start to our week. Sunday found us beginning our regular old-school curriculum called the complete Canadian Curriculum by Popular Books Company Canada Ltd. Ours was purchased at our local Indigo/Chapters store: chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/complete-canadian-curriculum-4-revised/9781771490320-item.html
Tim Horton's was our topic of the day from our English section. Barron worked on those pages from Sunday to Tuesday. We could not let a chance to enjoy our favourite treats by a talented group of staff go by without a back to school indulgence. Thank you for these great sweets in your item shop. Our favourite the birthday doughnut, a plain croissant (although the cheese version is also delicious) and some warm French Vanilla.
Something interesting is it takes 3 days to create a perfect croissant, some neat facts shared: https://youtu.be/VjFr2wGZ8ME
Monday we referenced a beautiful mini lilac pack that discusses the science and nature of lilacs (4.00- a great gift price!) at: raisingupwildthings.com/product/__lilacs/
After reading through this delightful pack we learnt that lilacs have so many wonderful meanings that we want to hold true for the desired school year- wisdom, magic, and love of the past. I could not print this yet so I made a replica for our classroom area and am sharing some screen shots, kindly being this into your school setting of you can as it is exquisite. Barron also created a painting as suggested in the raisingupwildthings unit. His work has such movement and quality. His first masterpiece of the term. He also helped me created a picture of a lilac using a really neat blue bingo dabber.
We played a homemade bingo game and Barron won a pack of washable markers and blank paper. We watched this video: https://youtu.be/SBhFjhR29pY and searched for various images. This video foreshadows our botany unit which we will begin sometime soon.
To practice creating check marks Barron signs into a daily homecrafted attendance sheet, this is something new to our routine as is the 100 day tracker of gathering knowledge we started. Once we accomplish 100 days we will have a celebration of being half way through the school term. Thanks to the free sources in TeachersPayTeachers webpage search result such as: teacherspayteachers.com/Product/RACE-TO-100-A-100-days-of-school-freebie-1092348 and teacherspayteachers.com/Product/100th-Day-of-School-Poem-Activity-Freebie-2355172
Also https://aroundthekampfire.com/2013/02/100th-day-writing-a-freebie.html offers the most lovely resource. Linda Kamp has the most adorable inspiring notions. She will be referenced much by us as she is a treasure that we are so happy to have found.
Today Barron began his life skills by preparing a salad. He picked apart the entire head of iceberg lettuce and then he styles the salad with placing the cucumbers among it. I think it looked delicious.
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