The first “term” of Meredith’s first official year of home schooling is coming to an end. I use the word “term” loosely. I had to fill out something for the school we’re enrolled with, that took about ten minutes, and that’s about all that marks the end of the term from anything else. Really, nothing much has changed from any other year. But I thought I’d do a little update post for us to look back on later of what we did this term. I would really like to start updating more often, but it’s hard to find the time to do so anymore!
Meredith started Highland Dancing this year, and has been really enjoying it. Fiona has asked if she can do it too, so after Christmas we might put her in the younger class and see how she does. She tends to be a little less confident about doing things without me, so in the end she may not be ready yet, which is fine of course. Fiona does love to watch her big sister dance though.
She also goes to a music class regularly. She is learning to play marimba. She also loves to play around with the piano at home. She learned a song on the marimba and came home and figured out (on her own) how to play the same song on the piano. She then taught herself how to play it on the melodica too. Her music teacher told me it’s obvious already that she has an ear for music.
We went to Las Vegas for two weeks in October and that was a blast. I will post more about it later maybe, but we toured around Nevada and Arizona with my dad and saw all sorts of cool things.
Other than that, we spend our time visiting friends, doing lots of arts and crafts, going for walks, playing with toys and each other (they love to play “baby”, which is basically like house, Meredith is the mom and Fiona is the baby)), and lots more. I think we are going to start going to Young Naturalist’s Club meet ups too.
One of Meredith’s favourite activities lately has been to “do fractions”. She will come and ask me, and I will give her little verbal problems (1/2 + 1/2; 1/4+1/2; etc) and she will figure out the answer. She initiated it originally and thinks it’s great fun, so we go with it. I’ve always kept the problems fairly simple, only two fractions and generally the answer is a whole or less.Well the other day we were cooking fish and there were only two pieces left. She asked if she could have a whole one and I pointed out that there were three of us wanting some and only two pieces of fish. She said, without missing a beat, “Okay, how about I have half plus a quarter, and Fiona gets three quarters too, and then you can have half. Would that work Mama?” She figured out 3/4+3/4+1/2=2 wholes in her head! I just love watching her learn and figure this stuff out.
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