Week 28 Highlights

Monday, Apr 4

Grade 1 Archetypal Professions block
• Circle Time - Opening Verse, sing ABC's, play Go Go Gorilla, do 2 times table beanbag game, play Blink!, solve a story problem with the math gnomes and gems
• finsh blue MLB - number pages, write table of contents, decorate front and back covers
• begin new block
• look at the Tools of the Trade for tailor/seamstress
• read The Purple Coat by Amy Hest




Grade 3 Old Testament Stories block

• read "The Boy Isaac" and "The Sacrifice of Isaac" from Journey to the Promised Land: The Path of the People of Israel from Abraham's Calling to David's Dream by Jakob Streit (also available for free as a downloadable PDF from The Online Waldorf Library)
• discuss Islamic and Jewish festivals & traditions (Eid al-Adha and Rosh Hashanah) which reference this story




Grade 7 Age of Exploration / Renaissance & Reformation block

• read chapter 55, "A Great Story-Teller" from A Child's History of the World by V.M. Hillyer (published by Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951)

  

  
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  beginning The Wise Enchanter as a lunchtime read-aloud story, beginning the Hundred Dresses project

  

Tuesday, Apr 5

Grade 1 Archetypal Professions block
• Circle Time
• look at the Tools of the Trade for weaver
• talk about how all of the wool yarn in our display was dyed with natural dyes
• look at pictures of natural dyestuffs in Thérèse Makes a Tapestry by Alexandra S.D. Hinrichs, match indigo and madder pictures with our indigo and madder yarn, look at saffron and cochineal
• look at weaving tools in Thérèse Makes a Tapestry, take turns weaving the Nine Norse Worlds tapestry on our 48 inch Harrisville Friendly Tapestry Loom
• share examples of other yarns I've plant-dyed (mint, blueberry, turmeric, etc.)
• dye white wool yarn in the crockpot with onion skins
• MLB - add illustration and sentence for either tailor/seamstress or weaver




Grade 3 Old Testament Stories block

• read "Sarah" chapter from Daughters of Fire: Heroines of the Bible by Fran Manushkin




Grade 7 Age of Exploration / Renaissance & Reformation block

• read chapter 56, " 'Thing-a-ma-jigger' and 'What-cher-ma-call-it'; or, a Magic Needle and a Magic Powder" from A Child's History of the World
• recall making a floating compass (experiment from Physics is Fun! A Sourcebook for Teachers by Roberto Trostli)




plus...

first discussion of "How the Camel Got His Hump" in JGB

Wednesday, Apr 6

Grade 1 Archetypal Professions block
• read The Goat in the Rug by Charles Blood and Martin Link
• look at results of dyeing wool yarn with onion skins (red + yellow), repeat but use only red onion skins so that we can compare the color
• do a small individual weaving on a cardboard loom




Grade 3 Old Testament Stories block

• MLB - rough draft the Binding of Isaac for MLB
• read "Rebecca" chapter from Daughters of Fire


Grade 7 Age of Exploration / Renaissance & Reformation block

• MLB - rough draft of Marco Polo, gunpowder, magnetic compass
• read A Single Pebble: A Story of the Silk Road by Bonnie Christensen, read The Silk Route: 7,000 Miles of History by John Major at home

Thursday, Apr 7

Grade 1 Archetypal Professions block

• Circle Time - Opening Verse, sing ABC's, play Check the Oven!
• look at results of dyeing wool yarn with only red onion skins
• look at Tools of the Trade for blacksmith
• read excerpts from Colonial People: The Blacksmith by Bobbie Kalman
• examine the tiny details in a hand-forged eating spoon




Grade 3 Old Testament Stories block

• MLB - rough draft of Jacob and Esau
• read "Leah and Rachel" chapter from Daughters of Fire


Grade 7 Age of Exploration / Renaissance & Reformation block

• read Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta 1325-1354 by James Rumford




plus...

making and eating Jacob's Lentil Stew

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