I am keeping the tabletop scarely decorated on purpose. I will rotate books as the days pass. The main book will stay up with pages turned one by one and we will take it down and read from it together.
As I plan our copywork passages for the upcoming week, I am torn: will it all relate to Japan? Or will it be a mix of Japan and Ovid to tie in with our trip to Ackland? I don’t want to confuse, but I trust my children can handle a mix, especially if we are placing items on the timeline and doing plenty of talking about things.
Isn’t this tabletop screen absolutely lovely? My mother found it at the thrift store for Joseph. She knows he is studying Japanese and wants to visit Japan. Joseph is garnering quite the collection of Asian-style apartment or home decor!
Lastly, I love Michele’s milk bucket review idea of using index cards to write questions and answers on throughout the week and then calling them out later for review. I have written down our first question and answer regarding Japan. Michele, I need to come up with something creative — like a milk bucket — to keep our questions in! I’ll be sure and show you!
Lynn
PS – Just as a reminder, Miss Priss continues to study Grass Sandals: The Travels of Basho
for you to leave a comment, but you can also e-mail me at lynn AT thehealthyhomeschool.com
Dear Lynn,
What a beautiful vignette! We studied Japan and have fallen in love with how beautifully they make their daily lives. The little dishes of food that they put on the table, the way they wrap gifts, their bathing rituals; I wish I could go live with a Japanese family for a year and learn a few things!
Love,
Marqueta
I am so impressed with your Japanese study! Isn’t it ever so fun…to be learning new things each day???
Boy, that screen is really something…it looks like it’s in mint condition and from a thrift store…..
…..which by the way, I’m not trying to tell you what to do….but, isn’t it about time you took a trip to your area thrift shops????? I just love seeing your finds! We have a thrift store, I recently found…where everything is .25… you’d do cartwheels- like I did!
I am sure you will come up with something super-duper clever for your milk bucket review! I can’t wait to see it when you do!
It is so cold and damp, here….it’s making me persnickity!
Michele/ivy