Homeschool for reals.

Homeschool isn't easy. We all have hang ups that make our job as parent teacher harder - but I keep reminding myself that while I know I fail in some ways - I have plenty of success in others.  I have a very hard time taking notes of what we have done so far. So much of waldorf first grade is hands on work - not so much of me sitting around typing up reports of the day! ( I also have a 1 year old) Sometimes I try to remember what we did all week - and I am stumped!  But taking photographs seems to be a quick easy way to remind myself just how much we have done! And while I am no photographer - and I bought this rather crap camera on clearance - here are the last couple weeks in our home~! Enjoy.

These are the completed paper from the paper making project.  

I think they kind of not so beautiful - but act of making it was so fun. We learned a lot about wasps!

This is our sound of music lesson (tee hee) We were lucky enough to have a sound of music sing along here at our local college. we took the opportunity to learn the songs as the verse potion of each days lesson. As Tilde is not yet reading we illustrated the lyrics to help her memorize them. And boy did she! She has - Favorite things, Do a dear, Climb every mountain and most of The Hills are alive- completely memorized! Oh she had a blast. The theater was full of other homeschool kids as well - and I am just thrilled that or community is so lush with such enthusiastic families.

 Here is the crisp apple struddle - we didn't know what is was suppose to look like - but it tasted good!

 The next week started with the family having the stomache flu. When we finally recovered I could not think what to do for school - but as Tilde had already humming Mary Quite Contrary -I went ahead and had a lesson on cockle shells ( thank you google) and then we drew her pretty maids all in a row.

 Here is Tildes beautiful winter night dress. She designed and sewed both dresses for herself and her doll. I threw in a little help here and there - but still - this was all her and her awesome sewing skills. I gave her most of the week to do this project. I don't know if i could stand that much hand sewing- myself!

 We also threw in a bit of baking that week. These are molasses sweetened blue berry muffins. They were crazy good. And thanks to Tildes delicate hands, they were soft and fluffy. And did I mention soooo good?

So that is the last 6 weeks of homeschool. I don't pack a huge amount in at a time.She seems happiest with slow and steady.
We are currently working on Christmas ornaments and cards - but I think I sent most of  them away before I could take pictures.