high-tide highlights, week of may 8

Geography songs — Scandinavia

Latin vocab chants

Perimeter and area

Earworms German

Poetry — “The Stolen Child,” “The Song of the Happy Shepherd,” Yeats

Tall tale: Pecos Bill

Fairy tale: Rapunzel

Cowboy songs (Home on the Range, Get Along Little Dogies, Ole Dan Tucker, Oh Susanna)

The Raggle-Taggle Gypsy

Witch of Blackbird Pond

Finn Family Moomintroll

Nature study: antlions

Rilla: read Meet Felicity

Huck: read Moomin comics

Huck started a new book in piano; he was very excited about this

With Beanie:

Watched The Great Courses: The Irish Identity parts 1-2

The antlion bit was especially fun. On Tuesday, as I was finishing our Moomintrolls chapter, I noticed that the next chapter was the one with the antlion in it, and I wasn’t sure either Huck or Rilla knew what that was. So without telling them why, I grabbed our Handbook of Nature Study and we read a bit about them. And then of course we needed to see one. We watched a short National Geographic video and then followed the suggested link to this delightful video made by a homesteading dad, accompanied by his four young children. At least, I think I counted four.

The video is embedded below, along with one for The Raggle-Taggle Gypsy—our folk song this week.

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