Last term, I must confess that Beethoven and Renoir took a back seat to our other studies. Even Grace mentioned that we didn't do much on Renoir. This term, I'm determined to be less relaxed, so every Tuesday we will be incorporating something Claude Monet, and every Thursday will incorporate something on Puccini. Today we played our newly created Claude Monet Bingo using Dover Publication's sticker books for Monet. The children really like playing Bingo, and this was an easy way of introducing the names of paintings.
Besides the nailing of shapes, this peg board with various card designs to follow has been a large hit. Here's Jack working on an arrow that took him a good 15 minutes to follow and put together.
Stepping it up a knotch has gone smoothly. About an extra 1/2 hour has been added to our school time. I have inserted the Montessori activities inbetween the Charlotte Mason assignments, which is just enough break between CM activities to keep the children moving forward and interested.
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