Thursday, May 06, 2004
Sophie on Miami's South Beach, taking a break from swimming. Nice work if you can get it, eh?
Bobby had a conference in Miami yesterday, so Sophie and I went along for the ride. While he was working, we walked down to South Beach and played in the ocean.
Sophie admired the art deco buildings immensely. Today, we read up on art deco, and she made an illustrated booklet about her day in Miami. She also played a bunch of math games (we hadn't done those in a while), and read another "American Girl" book, as well as carrying on with Harry Potter. She's getting very close to the end of the fourth book. She takes it with her wherever she goes : at climbing tonight, for instance, she went and read when she'd got too tired to climb anymore.
Tomorrow we're going to start a timeline - I thought I'd use index cards in a box, and she can add cards as we read or learn about various things ... so, for instance, she could put in a card for Laura and the other pioneer books she's read, another card for today's "American Girl" book, which was set in 1904, another card for WW1, which came up in a poem we read ... Sophie's quite keen on the idea.
Bobby had a conference in Miami yesterday, so Sophie and I went along for the ride. While he was working, we walked down to South Beach and played in the ocean.
Sophie admired the art deco buildings immensely. Today, we read up on art deco, and she made an illustrated booklet about her day in Miami. She also played a bunch of math games (we hadn't done those in a while), and read another "American Girl" book, as well as carrying on with Harry Potter. She's getting very close to the end of the fourth book. She takes it with her wherever she goes : at climbing tonight, for instance, she went and read when she'd got too tired to climb anymore.
Tomorrow we're going to start a timeline - I thought I'd use index cards in a box, and she can add cards as we read or learn about various things ... so, for instance, she could put in a card for Laura and the other pioneer books she's read, another card for today's "American Girl" book, which was set in 1904, another card for WW1, which came up in a poem we read ... Sophie's quite keen on the idea.
Monday, May 03, 2004
The thing Sophie enjoyed most today was making an illustrated flyer for her dream house. The house has a pool and a spa. Also, a carrot patch, an orange tree, and a tyre swing. And a bowling alley, a movie theatre, a private playground, a jet, ten bedrooms and a waterfall. In that order. She came up with this activity after we took a drive around the neighbourhood, scouting out possible homes to buy.
We had an interesting discussion about present-day dream homes, as opposed to the kind of home Laura and Mary Ingalls dreamed of, when, by chance today, we got to the bit in "On the Banks of Plum Creek" where Pa's built them a new 3 room house from machine-sawed boards, and they're all thrilled ...
Today she also read another chapter from the fourth Harry Potter book (she read that at the Y while I was working out). And she did some math from her workbook.
Aside from that, she's scooted, skipped, played with her polly pockets, cartwheeled around the lake, and played with Julius. She's had fun.
We had an interesting discussion about present-day dream homes, as opposed to the kind of home Laura and Mary Ingalls dreamed of, when, by chance today, we got to the bit in "On the Banks of Plum Creek" where Pa's built them a new 3 room house from machine-sawed boards, and they're all thrilled ...
Today she also read another chapter from the fourth Harry Potter book (she read that at the Y while I was working out). And she did some math from her workbook.
Aside from that, she's scooted, skipped, played with her polly pockets, cartwheeled around the lake, and played with Julius. She's had fun.
