October 2, AO yr 1, week 3

The joys of homeschooling. We were able to take yesterday off, for a very constructive meeting for mom with a fellow homeschooler. We are looking to start up a Charlotte Mason homeschooler's coop in our town. The basic idea is that we will cover Shakespeare, composer study, picture/artist study, handicrafts, nature study and hymn study as a group. The feast subjects!) You will certainly hear more about it when we get started up.

Yesterday, we also volunteered a couple hours of our time to our good friend Kim at her wonderful local shop The Artist Pivot. It is their 2nd birthday at the store and Fina and I went to pack some goody bags for kids for next week.

Then we still got in some outdoor time on an afternoon that warmed up nicely. Look what Fina was FINALLY able to do!

And, we watched the federal election debate for the MP candidates for our riding of Provencher. Fina knows the 4 parties by their colours. The Green guy works with dad.

And now we are ending our week on a Friday (instead of a Thursday). It all washes out in the end. The idea is to have 36 weeks, of about 4 days each per year. We can school whenever we like, take off weeks or days whenever we like. At any rate, we are right on track, being able to complete our week in 4 schooling days. And realistically, though, our weeks might not always start on a Monday. And I am really fine with that!

Today we are just finishing up some remaining items for week 3.

Fina wrote a bunch of words that can be written with the cursive letters she has learned so far. A good review day (as scheduled in the list I am using. Worked out great for us today!)

MUS 12E and 12F. And a few more pages from the Primer Activities Booklet: 12X through 15X.

And on to poetry.  We reread the last bunch, recited the three she knows (she also gave a lovely recitation of her poems yesterday to our friend, C, at dad's work. And showed him all her cursive letters).  We read "The Sun Travels," "The Lamplighter," "My Bed is a Boat" and "The Moon." I think we will try to learn "The Moon" possibly. It has has a bat that lies in bed at noon, so she likes that!

And now we are going to help out another friend and get in some more lovely outdoor time as well. The weather is holding up very nicely for our part of the world!

Still to do: I want to get more structured foreign language time. It will need to be part of our daily schedule somehow. But I am so pleased that this co-op is going to help me cover the things that I need to work into our regular routine.