Our week ended with some beautiful colors. As we finished up a block on the Big Bang my 8 year old DD and I took to 
trying to paint some of the pictures from the book. First was a sun lion that DD loved. We did some things first with wax crayons and then added color. The afternoon went on with lots of other paintings until we found ourselves low on paint and out of the heavy paper needed for wet on wet watercolors. Having put in a $150 supply order to get us to spring I am excited for them to get here next month so we will have a lot more express with.
trying to paint some of the pictures from the book. First was a sun lion that DD loved. We did some things first with wax crayons and then added color. The afternoon went on with lots of other paintings until we found ourselves low on paint and out of the heavy paper needed for wet on wet watercolors. Having put in a $150 supply order to get us to spring I am excited for them to get here next month so we will have a lot more express with. I hope to block about our main lesson book for the big bang soon and also our follow up two weeks of learning about creation stories from around the world. This year in our UU Church the children are going over christian and Jewish roots and so I trust them to cover this well as I cover other faiths.
Creation is normally a 3rd grade waldorf block but my pixie baby expressed interest all summer and so we jumped right in.
Not waldorf like we are moving at what feels like break neck speed in math, spelling, reading, and writing, academics all at once. Normally waldorf takes things in blocks, will do Math for a few weeks or a month, do science the next, and come back to math in a season. It is not common to touch all subjects ever day as they give these topics time to breath in the child and devolop. I do believe it is wonderful but I have a need to try and catch DD up in a few areas and to keep busy. Our plan is to take all of November off for NaNoWriMo and so I need her up to being able to at least make a small story by then. So far DD seems to enjoying all the work. She is doing far better then I am planning it all and trying to stick to such busy plans. Just 6 more weeks and then we can break for a wonderful month of writing and welcoming a new baby into our lives.
