Gemma Playing the Blues

Year 2: Term 3 - A School Evening

Our “school evening” yesterday included a story about Edward I joining England and Wales, a look at a map of the United Kingdom, a conversation about why London had a black star while Belfast, Edinburgh, and Cardiff had white stars, a YouTube video of a beginning Welsh lesson, a passage about Chinese houseboats, a YouTube video of Chinese houseboats, writing “Jerusalem is in Israel” on the J page in Cursive Around the World, and spelling and Spanish apps. 

(Earlier in the day, Gemma read a passage in Luke, a page in Tales of Troy & Greece, and a handful of Rossetti poems, practiced piano, and for fun, worked on her Which Way USA: North Carolina.)

1-2-3 Draw People: Yoga

Gemma’s yoga person, using instructions from Freddie  Levin’s book “1-2-3 Draw People”

Lunar Eclipse

And, having nothing to do with the lunar eclipse, here is a picture of Gemma in the same hat seven years ago...

Gemma’s Drawing of a Baseball Player

Today in the dollhouse...

That moment when you’ve just sat down to breakfast and in walks a hungry unicorn...

Field Trip: Getty Center

On Wednesday, Gemma and I went to the Getty Center to look at the Rembrandts.

Gemma noticed that a turban in one painting matched the turban in a painting in her book (published by the Met).

She also noticed that a model in one of the museum’s paintings looked like the model in one of the Met’s Rembrandts - “The Noble Slav.”