A Class of her own: A successful art project and more

Cricket really enjoyed herself this week, and we got a lot done especially considering we were playing catch up from last week.

Cricket seems to be learning and expanding her vocabulary more. This is what happened when I left Cricket alone to complete her funny fonts worksheet. Good work with some added pizazz.

Cricket continues to work steadily though the Horizons workbook. I am also tying in other resources that we have when available. She really loves this clock from Learning Resources.

This week in Expedition Earth we were studying Peru. Cricket is doing better than I expected with the mapping, but she's having difficult with pronunciation. So if I ask her to find a specific country we studied she can point to it, but she can't (or won't) look at the same map and identify the country to me. She really loves doing the flag now that I let her paint it.

Cricket loved our art project for this week, and I loved seeing the click in her head. Our painting assignment this week was a symmetry project. I folded a paper in half and gave Cricket the three primary paints.

I told her she could paint whatever she wanted on the one side of the paper. My girl, she painted stripes! Luckily she used enough paint and painted close enough that when I folded it over some of the colors blended. When I opened the paper and she saw the change and how the colors blended she loved it. She immediately pointed out the secondary colors and how they were made. It was better than any presentation I could have given her.

Cricket has finally started ballet and I think she loves it. She loves telling us all about it and showing us what she learned each week. She also continues to do Super Crickets, and grow there.

I added a new technology to our school routine this week. Cricket loves using her daddy's tablet so I am taking advantage and this week we used programs on sign language and handwriting.