SEPTEMBER 17 2015, AO yr 1, week 1, sort of day 5

We had a late (but very fun) night last night, so we'll see how things go this morning. She had a busy morning, playing connect four, memory (with bean bags), writing invitations to her toys for a halloween party, preparing costumes etc.

We did our morning prayer during breakfast, as we have been doing. We have been listening to more Brahms this morning as well. And she recited her "Rain" poem to me again. She has it down pat now, I think!

We have our painting out and just randomly look at it. We won't do any "focused" looking today.

We spent some time thinking about all the people we have learned about so far and added them to our Timeline. (Of course, google was a great help with dates). Our time line is very basic. Three centuries on a page, and within each century, we just note whatever we come across (without specific dates and not in any particular order).  Right now, we are keeping it in a binder. I'd like to do this as we go in the future, though I know some homeschoolers put things on their time line once a week. In some ways, that does help to refresh what we learned this week. We'll see.

Our cursive letters are "an" and "am" today. Fina wrote them very well after just a few times, so we didn't need to spend much time with cursive today.

We read Genesis 3:1-24 and she narrated it to me. It was great.

Then Fina wanted to read some new poems, "Travel," "Singing," and "Looking Forward." We will try to learn "Singing." It has two stanzas.
*****
Singing

Of speckled eggs the birdie sings
And nests among the trees;
The sailor sings of ropes and things
In ships upon the seas.

The children sing in far Japan
The children sing in Spain;
The organ with the organ man
Is singing in the rain.
*****
She has the second stanza down quite well already. She is a bit of a natural with memorization, it seems.

We sang our hymn. And recited Lord's Prayer. And the Apostle's Creed. She knows all kinds of stuff!

We read the entire chapter of "A Lesson of Faith" in Parables from Nature (though it is scheduled to be read over two weeks). She narrated that to me and dad. She did fine with it.

We had a great time of nature play this afternoon with our good friends J and J. And now she is tired (late night, early morning!) and she and dad are upstairs reading Narnia (Prince Caspian, I think?) and I suspect she will be asleep at an early time.