September 21 2015, AO yr 1, week 2

We started reading Peter Pan over the weekend. We read about half of the first chapter.

Morning prayer and breakfast done.
Our cursive letter today is s. Exciting! She did s and a few multiples. She got quite frustrated, s is a hard letter. Fina didn't get many s's she was happy with, so we will try again tomorrow.
We listened to some Brahms as we did our cursive writing.

Read and narrate Genesis 6:13-22. She did a great job with this one.

We also read "Damon and Pythias" from Fifty Famous Stories Retold. She narrated this well too.

Fina recited again the two poems she has learned.  "Rain" and "Singing."  We read another poem "A Good Play" and it was quite cute.

We read and she narrated the next Aesop Fable, "The Eagle and the Jackdaw." Of course, she liked that there was a lamb and a ram in the story. We learned about vanity.
(In the story, an eagle picks up a lamb to take to his nest. The jackdaw, seeing this, decides he wants to do the same, so he goes to a ram, but can't pick it up and gets his talons stuck in the wool. The shepherd sees the jackdaw flapping its wings and comes to free it. He clips his wings and gives the bird to his children. The children ask what kind of bird it is. The shepherd says "it is a jackdaw, but if you ask him, he will say he is an eagle." The moral: do not let your vanity overestimate your abilities.) Oh look - my own written narration. (Mom did this, not Fina.)

MUS starting at 10D through to 11A. We learned about the unit bars, from 1-9. She likes it a lot, which is good.

She recited the Lord's Prayer and the Apostles Creed. She also sang the "Holy, Holy, Holy" to me.

Now, off to the beach. It is a lovely day here today!!!