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We can then delve back into our story where Dusty find the large, flat piece of bark in the woods and it is carried to the water’s edge where it floats. So our first straight line and curved line: I and C can go into our Main Lesson Book. Perhaps we can even follow that curve by holding a piece of string. We can practice looking around from one end of the room to the other and if we look carefully we will see that makes a curve. We will revisit our story and talk about mouse: do they stand upright like us or do they have curves? Poppy Mouse in our story has to look around her to see her cheeses, her pots of cream in the Dairy Stump. When we look around nature, we gaze about we may talk about how this feels different than that straight line. I will point out that we stand upright and here we are: I (I will draw a straight line). We will look for lines and curves again and practice once again our line and curve in several different ways with our bodies. We will do some counting forwards and backwards and counting rhymes and practice of even and odd number counting. For a middle lesson whilst I am working with my fourth grader, I may have my first grader start a mural of Brambly Hedge on a huge sheet of butcher block paper.ĭay Two: We will start with our opening verses and seasonal songs, finger plays and a poem to learn to recite about mice. Then I will probably let it rest, and go into a typical first day painting exercise. Everything has lines and curves, and when we go to read letters written on a page those lines and curves mean something! We can hunt for those lines and curves in the yard, and we can draw a line and curve in the air with different parts of our bodies, and draw them in the dirt with a stick.
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Then we can see how God (this is my homeschool, so I bring us back to our Creator throughout school, feel free to change this according to your spiritual beliefs) gives us so many beautiful lines and curves in His creation of nature, just like the way the “river” curves (the blue silk) in our scene. Then perhaps we will notice how we stand upright on earth and notice how we can stand and move our arms different ways and be upright.
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Then I will tell the story and we can look at the scene and notice the lines and curves. At first, I wanted to sew the Brambly Hedge characters from the book I mentioned in that first post above, but I decided since my child has never heard these stories, that I wanted to have more of an archetypal feel for the mice characters. I hope to set it up outside with silks and make beeswax mice and perhaps to also utilize our sandbox with reeds set in it for part of the story. She loves our yard, she knows every tree, some of them have special names, and so by looking at this map together we will find our way to our first story, the summer Brambly Hedge story. The map will be of our house with a very special landmarks of our land on it because this child lives in our yard. So:ĭay One: First Grade Rose Ceremony my traditional small talk about starting the grades, and then the giving of a scroll (I am going to take a rectangular butcher block paper, wet it and scrunch it up, let it dry, unroll it and burn the ends like a very old and tattered map). My fourth grader will be doing local geography and as such will be creating a map of her room, our home, the yard in the first part of this block, so I thought it might be fun for my first grader to have something “map-ish” as well….
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I picked a two-week block as opposed to a three or four week block because I think this particular child will be fatigued by a longer block of form drawing at this point in time. So, my first thought was to incorporate the summer and autumn Brambly Hedge books into this two-week form drawing block. When we start school, it will still be very summertime weather here in the Deep South. I have gotten a few emails asking me about how “form drawing with Brambly Hedge” is going.