Satori Smiles

After our reading and math lessons, we ended up having a colorful morning!

To finish off our last FIAR book we started a month ago, we read the Clown of God again and then had fun trying to juggle with colorful scarves. This was actually pretty fun!

I had these florescent scarves from Satori’s 4 year old birthday party where we had a “disco” theme, and I wanted to have glow-in-the-dark (with the help of a black light) scarves for the dance party. They are actually juggling practice scarves! They kinda float in the air for awhile, making them excellent as tools to learn how to juggle.

Okay, so Satori didn’t learn how to juggle today, but we had so much fun giggling and throwing them up and catching them, and it was a great workout!

A month ago, we had also attended the Renaissance Fair as a field trip for Clown of God. They had juggling sticks (devil sticks), and mama had a good time demonstrating to Satori how to do them, I used to play with these 15 years ago! I did not light them on fire this time though. These are fun for children, I should get a pair for Satori. She has since tried to juggle with pencils, hehe.

We also did lesson 3 out of Artistic Pursuits, which was free-form finger painting!

Getting really messy!

One of our first times taking advantage of the special HWT handwriting paper… The object is to fill the entire shaded square, but I haven’t pushed it too hard yet. It comes with 4 different types of shaded squares.
First, the paper with everything on it, so Satori simply copies the letters/numbers:

Next, her doing them all on her own with no help. I dictated the letters/numbers to write, but she can ALMOST do it all by herself. She always forgets the J and N.

All pretty legible, there are just a few letters she has to practice more, but part of it is that she is only 4 yet and is still developing her coordination I suppose. Needs to work on her 8, and making sure her 9 is facing the right way. We’re almost done learning our lower-case letters and then we’ll take a month to review and practice before we start our First Grade Printing book.