Madeline

This week's plan was to read Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans. We read it once. (It's meant to be read all week.) It was a little crazy - we were down in the Lansdale area, staying at my inlaw's house so we could visit Grandma Bobbie. My MIL, FIL, and hubby were in VA, finishing emptying Grandma Bobbie & Grandpa Andy's house - it finally sold! Grandma Bobbie has been having a rough time lately trying to recover from her pneumonia, so the boys & I stayed down there to visit & help. Napping wasn't going well, so I skipped out on the lessons for the rest of the week.

What we did do: Read through Madeline once & briefly discussed why she was in the hospital (she had her appendix removed). There is lots more to dig through in that book. For math, we took our first peek at playing cards - ace through 10. Jimmy learned that he could tell the difference between 6 and 9 by counting the number of shapes on the card. He figured out that ace is 1 all on his own. I'm not sure whether to be proud or concerned for future gambling issues... LOL! We read the Bible verse & story for the letter T, but we didn't start handwriting yet.

What we're going to do now: We're going to keep to our original schedule for the rest of the school year (with the possibility of taking an Easter break to visit Aunt Donna). Next week's book, The Glorious Flight, is also set in France, so we'll combine Madeline's studies in with that. We'll work on T along with U, which may actually make for some good handwriting lessons when we get to writing whole words towards the end of the week. For math, we'll just continue on; we had plenty of wiggle room for fitting in lessons at the end of the year, since there were more school days than math lessons for this year.

I think this is a much better option that trying to squeeze everything from this week into 2 or 3 days. There's so much good stuff in this week's lessons. Next week might be a little intense, but Jimmy has been asking for more stuff after we've finished our lessons lately. I love that we can be this flexible.