Charlotte Mason in Santa Monica: Year 1: Week 25

This is the first week of our last term of first grade. Gemma will turn seven years old in only four months!

This week, we:

read 3 pages of Lamb's As You Like It. We're nearing the end. Next week will be our final week of As You Like It. I'm not sure which Shakespearean tale we'll read next.
completed Chapter 1 of Life of Fred: Mineshaft.
read poems from Nature in Verse
started learning "Mary Ann" on piano
read the fable "The Wind and the Sun"
went on a field trip to see Paddington 2
read more about Alexander the Great
listened to a Classics for Kids podcast about Mozart (Gemma's choice for composer this term), as well as some of The Magic Flute and one of his piano concertos
read about tapirs in Brazil, and read a poem from Elementary Geography
looked at Monet's La Grenouillère
read 1 Samuel 16:6-12 (The Sons of Jesse). Gemma chose this as her Old Testament recitation passage for the term. We also read Psalm 23 and Matthew 13:44-46 (parables - The Treasure and the Goodly Pearl), and The Feeding of the Five Thousand.
listened to Deck Yourself, My Soul, with Gladness, Gemma's hymn choice this term. I gave her the choice between this and a couple of others, and this is the one she chose. She was familiar with it because it is in her Sacred Solos piano book.
went to ballet
went to jiujitsu. Here is Gemma taking down her partner...
read the Andersen tale The Tin Soldier. She hated it. "Worst fairy tale ever" were her words.
sang along to Chocolate (Jose Luis Orozco) - the song Gemma chose as her Spanish song - and Les Trois Rois - the Christmas song Gemma chose as her French song
watched several episodes of Salsa (children's TV show in Spanish)
worked on greetings and responses to "How are you?" in Spanish and French
practiced cursive
drew these pictures (a fairy on a mushroom). The duct tape is a nice touch, don't you think?
handicrafts ✔️- Gemma made this car from a kit from - see if you can guess where. It's a pull-back car, which makes it even cooler, and, from what I could tell, is the best kit in the Build & Grow line. The kit requires hammering nails, and Gemma built it all by herself.