Visiting Vietnam - round 2

I didn't plan on visiting Vietnam again so soon, but certain events came up and we are now going to Vietnam again.

Selling Girl Scout Cookies

Since we're going to Vietnam, we're going to miss most of the cookie sales period. We did do some presales, and this booth is to sell off the remainder before we leave.

Daisies at Gumbo Limbo

Cowgirl's daisy troup went to Gumbo Limbo to see a performance by the theatre troupe from Sunflower Creative Arts. Many of the girls in her troup are former Seedlings, so we do a lot of the Sunflower activities

After the show

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Boca Green Living Festival

We went to this festival in Boca Raton that is all about green living. There were some cool activities and displays from local businesses and organizations, include a fun maze representing the water cycle.

From the animal rescue unit.

A lovely boa to touch.

History activity

Another picture of our school table. We're doing an activity from the Mosaic Curriculum,

from the Ancient Civilizations History Pockets on Mesopotamia. You can also see the Half Magic and Gilgamesh the King books.

T-Rexes and math parties

The first time we went to this science museum, they had a dinosaur exhibit with robotic dinosaurs. That night,  she was talking in her sleep and said "That's a T-Rex!" I never found out what her dream was about, but she now has a fondness for T-Rexes, probably from watching Dinosaur Train.

Our lesson today in RightStart math required a math party, with 10 friends. Since we normally don't have 10 kids floating around, we had 10 soft friends fill in. It seems not all are paying attention.

Character practice

Your character is reflected in your characters. This is the translation of the back of the Vietnamese writing books my daughter has been practicing. If you look at the history of writing in Asia, character writing was very important and considered an art form. Our heritage writing is based on Chinese characters, and being able to write required discipline and diligent practice. Now the Vietnamese no longer use Chinese based characters, but romanized characters with some extra diacritics to mark the various tones.

I've learned that the main writing style taught in Vietnam is cursive, from the very beginning of school. Everyone I've seen has very nice handwriting, probably due to the constant and consistent practice. How well can you do something if you learn one style for a few years, then are taught another style for a few months, then practice neither consistently? So we spend a fair amount of time practicing handwriting in cursive. She already knows how to print, although I never specifically worked on that with her, she picked it up herself from books we had. The cursive style used in Vietnam is based on French writing, so I was able to find a very similar font to use for various materials.

One for tracing is Maternellecolor_creuse
Another for just text is Cursif. A lined version of it is also available.