As I mentioned yesterday, we've been at this Waldorf-inspired homeschooling for a few weeks now. Our first week was focused on the letter A. We read the Tale of Peter Rabbit which introduced the A sound (focusing on the "gAte" in the story). We drew pictures depicting the story, made homemade playdough for forming A's, said A tongue-twisters and looked for A's in nature on our walks. For science we talked about summer and how he remembered it in preparation for making our fall nature table. Then we used Waldorf wet-on-wet watercolor technique to draw a summer picture and told rhymes and stories about the color yellow. You get the idea.
On a side note: ridiculously, these weren't even taken the same day. I guess he just likes that shirt.
Our second week focused on the letter B which was introduced by reading "Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We drew pictures of B's and turned them into butterflies and bumblebees and told a butterfly story, we sang a B song and worked on some blue watercolors while we said blue rhymes and listened to a story about blue.
Last week focused on the letter C and the Tale of Benjamin Bunny, Peter Rabbit's cousin. We also read the Story of One Big Sun and drew a picture to illustrate how even though the sun is only one sun, it has many rays, enough for everybody in the whole world. My favorite thing so far was baking crescent rolls, one of my guilty pleasures, in the shape of C's. For our beginning handwork we learn very basic finger knitting which we are using to weave into a comfy rug.
This week is a review of the letters we have learned so far, an introduction to the number 2 and my personal favorite, the winter solstice on Friday. I see lots of holiday songs and crafts in our future!
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