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Three weeks ago, we read the story Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton. We own this little book, it's such a classic. The story about Mike and Mary Ann always captivates us and puts us in a positive frame of mind. (While reading Mike Mulligan, we finished reading Peter the Great, and The Treasure Chest: The Last Grand Duchess, Anastasia Romanov By Ann Hood . These books are mentioned in my previous post, Another Celebrated Dancing Bear.) Anastasia's Vocabulary words were: canal, cellar. Tristan's vocabulary word was minaret, taken from The Treasure Chest story. Tristan continues lessons in Language Lessons for the Well Trained Mind, Level 1 by Jesse Wise Bauer, and we had an impromptu lesson on punctuation. His reading out loud has improved since that little talk. Anastasia counted things from the story, automobiles, power lines, steam ships etc. I also began doing a "daily math" problem during our morning circle time. We use the web...

Last week we read the story Another Celebrated Dancing Bear, by Gladys Scheffrin-Falk. This is a fictional story about two brown bears living in Imperial Russia. One dances for the circus, and he teaches his friend to dance. At the end of the story there are two celebrated dancing bears.  We really enjoy this story and it was fun to learn about Imperial Russia. Vocabulary words: Csar, embraced, jealous. Tristan's vocabulary words came from another story we are reading. They were: dolt, coterie, and minaret. In Art appreciation, we enjoyed looking at another painting by Kazimir Malevich,  White Houses with Landscape . We also enjoyed listening to Tchaikowsky. I forgot how much I enjoy Swan Lake. The children enjoyed making artwork inspired by the interesting architecture found in the Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral, and Anastasia enjoyed coloring a ballerina. They also decorated little toilet paper tube stacking dolls (the dolls don't actually stack). Histo...