"Madeline"

After stressing trying to two one book for each child, I decided we will just do one book together. Best decision. They are loving sharing their experiences.

Our book this week is "Madeline" by Ludwig Bemelmans.

For our first morning, we made croissants for breakfast. The kids had fun rolling them up.

We bought French preserves to put on our croissants.

We enjoyed our yummy French breakfast of croissants with strawberry preserves and hot chocolate. This is what I ate for breakfast while I was in Paris.

We took a little break from Madeline for the morning and Gideon worked on his letter for the week.

Then we read Madeline for the first time of the week. We located France and put our story disk on the map. Then we made flip books of the map and location of France as well as the French flag.

We gained some new vocabulary words on our second day.

Then we talked about literary devices: poetry and repetition.  The kids enjoyed making their own poems and illustrating them.

 Next we talked about architecture and identified the French architecture illustrated in the book. Then we watched a Rick Steves' video on youtube about having lunch on the Sein.

They each picked their favorite example of French architecture to draw. Zoe chose the Eiffel Tower.

I tried to interest Gideon in something else, but he did not waver from his love of the Eiffel Tower.

For math studies, we used dominoes to represent the twelve little girls and had fun learning about grouping and dividing.

On our last day, we learned about health. After talking about ways we can be healthy (eating good things, exercising), Zoe and Gideon had fun coloring their body organs worksheet.

"Madeline" was so much fun! Zoe has decided we need to move to Paris and live there at some point in our lives.