Madeline Wrap Up Party

Today we had our Madeline wrap up party. This has been a great book and one that we will probably row again in the future. We started the day by talking about symmetry. This was a much easier concept for her to grasp than I thought it would be. We flipped through the book and she would tell me which pictures we symmetrical and asymmetrical. We also did a craft in which we folded a piece of paper in half and then made drops of paint on one side of the paper and then folded the paper in half. We really smashed and rubbed the paper together and then we opened it back up to see that both sides were now symmetrical.

Reagan is a picky eater so we had to be creative with our "French food" for our wrap up. We decided to made "French" bread pizza and I made a cake that looked like Madeline's hat. The cake didn't turn out perfect, but she liked it.

Madeline Day 4

Before we started rowing Madeline, I wanted to get Reagan a Madeline doll. Boy did this turn out to be much bigger than I anticipated, but isn't that always the case. After much searching, I found one on ebay and won the bid.

The doll arrived today in great condition and she was sooooo excited when she opened it.

We watched the Madeline movie today and she held on to her doll. We also started discussing our wrap up of this unit and what we would cook. I think this will be fun for all of us.

Her is Reagan and the Madeline doll. We took the picture in front of our map with her pointing to France.

Madeline Day 3

We started out our day by finishing up our study of France. We decided to learn a couple of words in French today. We kept it simple and learned Bonjour and Oui. Reagan really liked learning another language and decided we should use these two during the rest of our Madeline study.

After this we went into talking about germs. We talked about how germs are transmitted from one person to another by the way of direct contact or by touching objects others have touched. We then did an experiment about handwashing to show her how long you have to wash your hands to get all the germs off, not just run them under water and go.

First we coated her hands with vegetable oil and then sprinkles lots of course black pepper on her hands and had her rub it in. No only could she see the "germs", but she could feel them as she rubbed the pepper in.

We then went to the bathroom and she washed, and washed, and washed until the pepper was all gone. It was really neat for her to see the pepper left on the faucet knob after she had turned it on and the pepper left sticking to the sides of the sink. This was really a great visual. We talked about how long it takes to properly wash our hands.

Yeah! All clean.

France and Madeline

Today is our second day of rowing Madeline. Today we focused on Paris and France.

We worked on a couple of mini books and fold outs that we found on home school share. The first one was a tour of France and came with pictures of different structures that the artist had included in Madeline. Reagan had a bunch of fun trying to find the different pictures. I had also checked out a book from the library on France and we would also look up the pictures in there and get a whole different view. There were several night time pictures with the structure all lit up.
We then colored the flag of France and she had to write the continent that France is located in and then pick France out in a picture of that continent.
Her favorite activity was the Madeline doll cut-outs. She thought they were so cute and we had fun putting them in two rows of six. We then used them to do some adding and subtracting. We will be using these all week for math and any other activity we can use them for.

Madeline

This week we will be rowing Madeline from FIAR. Reagan really likes this book and I knew she would be excited. We have read the book before, but have not rowed it. I had the table all set up to surprise her when she awoke on Monday morning. As expected she was all smiles.

This was the table when she awoke in the morning. She immediately started questioning me about the toothbrush and soap, and the number 12. The mystery of it all makes her so excited to get started and figure it all out.