We read some more Peter Pan after finishing our math yesterday afternoon. We read chapter 4 and half of chapter 5. We went for a short bike ride with dad, and then Fina did another two episodes of her yoga. (Good thing, too. We had very little outside time. And please, oh please, mosquitoes, go away already!!!)
On to today. I gave her the option of working on her cursive s first or her math. She said "poems." So, poetry it is!
Recitation: Lord's Prayer, The Apostles' Creed, and her two poems "Rain" and "Singing."
We read four new poems from our same poetry collection. She didn't want to stop. "My Shadow," "System," "A Good Boy" and "Escape at Bedtime." We haven't found anything new to recite yet, but we will continue through the book until we find something to learn.
Fina has it in her mind that she is ready for winter, talking about making "tire sur la neige" etc and she wanted to see photos of snowflakes. So we digressed, and checked out this website that shows photos of snowflakes. If you decide to look at it, be sure to go to the last page of the slideshow. Very cool!
Then we tackled that cursive letter s again. It went much better. She was able to write "as," "sass" and "mass" today. We will continue to work on it, but we were both a little less frustrated with it today. I don't want her to feel like nothing is good enough, like a perfectionist, but yet, I need her to do her best. Like perfect! Very tricky to negotiate that. Just a reminder, faithful readers, we use the stickers to cover up mistakes. I think this is mostly encouraged when writing words (the idea is that you don't see the misspelled word and get the wrong spelling in your head) but it is working fine for cursive letters as well. Though she has asked "does it mean I didn't do a good job because there are so many stickers?" to which I replied "It means that you are practicing a lot!"
We read chapter 2 of An Island Story, "The Coming of the Romans." It tells of Julius Caesar coming to Britain and conquering it, though not feeling like it was a win, because he lost so many men and galleons (ships). Fina narrated it. And we put Julius Caesar in our timeline.
We read two Aesop's Fables. "The boy and the Filberts" which tells of the boy who couldn't get his hand out from the jar because he wouldn't let go of some nuts, and "Hercules and the Wagoner" that teaches us that heaven helps those who help themselves. In this second fable, the farmer's wagon gets stuck in the mud and he cries out to Hercules to help him, and the story says that Hercules actually comes and berates him for not trying to get his wagon out himself. She narrated both short fables well.
Then, we read "Beauty and the Beast" from The Blue Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang. There have been many discussion on various Charlotte Mason groups about these fairy tales as being too brutal for some kids, but this story was really fine, even for Fina who tends to have a dramatic response to things. There was nothing gory or brutal in it. We ended up reading the whole story (though we had intended to break it up) at Fina's insistence. I asked her to narrate back to me after a few pages and she said "Mom, you haven't read enough for me to narrate." So I kept on. I stopped maybe three times to have her narrate. And at the end, she gave me a decent summary of the overall story. It was a fascinating fairy tale. We both enjoyed it. It is so neat to read the originals of well-loved Disney fairy tales. It is interesting to hear the differences.
We sang hymn 13E, the Holy and the Glory to God today. She is not always singing aloud, but I think it is getting better.
We finished with some MUS, doing sections 11E and 11F.
Now she is looking at the pieces of art by Corot. We looked up a photo of the Chartres' Cathedral. We got to see a detail of its rose window and Fina was quite pleased to see that. Many of you know of her affinity for stained glass windows! Here is a photo that is taken from the same angle as seen in Corot's painting.
Fun to see that low building in front of it, still standing from at least 1830 when Corot painted it.
We listened to some Brahms today, throughout our morning.
Fina said "I like homeschooling, because I get to do my school in my pjs." Funny! I suppose we could get dressed to do our school, but it works fine like this for her. If she likes it, WONDERFUL!
Time for lunch (after she gets dressed, that is)!
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