We started our schooling this morning with Session 2 of our catechism. "God cares for us." It was fine. One of the questions is to ask you how you should treat others to show God's love and she said "I asked people if the toy belonged to them, when it was abandoned on the beach." Yes, before proceeding to take it home. That is ok, I guess. : ) We have to keep working on that hoarder mentality! Also, she drew her favourite part of church as being when "everybody sings and us too." Also funny, because she never wants to sing at church!
Then we took another stab at the letter s. Fina was able to shape the letter much better today. She was very pleased with herself! And she did ss and ssss. And "as" as well. It takes great concentration for her, but I'm pleased with her work.
We read and narrated Genesis 7:13-18 and she did a great job with that.
We read and she narrated "A Laconic Answer" from Fifty Famous Stories Retold. I wasn't sure if she got it (a Laconic answer is a short, brief answer. Coming from Laconia in Greece, where the Spartans were measured in their speech. The King wants to take over their land, and the Laconians send him back the message, with just the answer "if.") She did understand it though. Fina: " They only wrote IF because they like short answers."
We looked at our map to see where Rome and Greece are (were). And we tried to learn north and south. She keeps calling north south by accident. We'll keep working at it! I'm not worried.
She asked to do poetry next. She must really be enjoying it. Continuing through A Child's Garden of Verses. She re-recited "Rain" and "Singing." We read a few new ones. "Where go the boats," "Auntie's Skirts" and "The Land of Counterpane." We had a chat about the Land of Counterpane and she understood that the boy was in bed because he was sick and had all his toys in bed with him. Then we together came to the understanding that counterpane is like a windowpane and he imagines he is the giant looking out over the land of counterpane.
While we were reciting, I asked her to recite the Apostles' Creed again. And we sang our hymn from last week as well as the Holy Holy Holy. She is trying to sing more clearly, opening her mouth to pronounce.
MUS 11B - she is doing well with this. Went through 11C. She asked to listen to Zecchino d'Oro while she was doing her math. Either she's not interested in Brahms (ha), or she just wanted something more fun. Score for foreign language listening. It is an Italian kids' choir from forever ago and every year they hold a big concert with new songs.
We read chapter 2 of Peter Pan (our current free read, so no narration is necessary, though I'm hoping she'll tell dad about it later, of her own volition!).
And we worked a bit more on her story from last week. Here is the start of Chapter 2 from last week, with her new part added on.
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CHAPTER 2
But Squirrel Nutkin said “where is our baseball bat and our baseball ball?” And Jeremy Fisher said “you’re right.” And they looked together. And there was no sign of the baseball bat and the baseball ball. So they said “why don’t we just go inside?” On the way inside, they saw a snail and they said “ hi, little snail, do you want to come live with us?” The snail nodded and said “yes, please, I’ve been looking for a home, but you better put me in a cage because maybe I’ll make slimy marks.”
They made the cage out of hay, but then they forgot to put a window. So they cut open a space and put a glass window in it. Then the snail said “ouch” and then they looked. The snail had pricked himself on the hay. So they made it out of some flat wood instead. The snail said “thank you Jeremy Fisher and Squirrel Nutkin.”
Then Squirrel Nutkin and Jemima Puddleduck said “there is no sign of your baseball bat and baseball ball.” So JF said “shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,. They all see a sign that says “Free baseball and baseball bat here.”
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That is it for us today.
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