We had kind of a crazy week of not only my husband being out of town but also of illness cycling through all of the kids! Thankfully, even when sick we can all cuddle up and read! We didn't do much more than that this week, but that is one thing that I simply adore about homeschooling. It truly allows us to be flexible and go with the flow of life! This week we focused on the book Lyle, Lyle Crocodile by Bernard Waber. We LOVE Lyle books at our house and have many of them so we also read The House of East 88th Street, and Lyle and the Birthday Party.
We continued by learning more about crocodiles reading Alligators and Crocodiles by Gail Gibbons and Miles and Miles of Reptiles by Dr. Suess! Also in the story Signor Valenti was going to bring Lyle to Australia to be a performer so we read the story about Australia and Oceania! We were going to take a trip to the zoo to check out the crocodiles and other animals from Australia, but again with all of the illnesses in our house that can wait for a later time! We still had a lot of fun learning right from our couch together.
We also read the poem "The Crocodile" by Lewis Carroll in the book A Child's Book of Poems and studied the painting Children's Games by Pieter Bruegel. In the story of Lyle, Lyle Crocodile, Lyle loves to play games with all of the children. It was fun to study this painting and all of the different games that the children were playing. The image continues over 230 children playing about 90 different games!
We are going to take a few weeks off from Memoria Press's Enrichment Guide because I realized that we are a little bit ahead of their traditional schedule, as the next selection in their book is for Columbus Day in later October. We are going to dive into some awesome books about Fall and Trees to learn more in the next few weeks!
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