October 21, AO year 1, week 6

Fina has been asking to listen to Zecchino D'Oro (an Italian kids' choir that we have always listened to since she was small) whenever we're just doing whatever. Her longing for foreign language study? I'm glad she has been asking for it herself. She knows many of the songs and lyrics. And she has recently been asking me what a certain line means. So that is great.

We had a great time yesterday at our outdoor play group. It was a little chilly and cloudy, but we won't complain just yet! It was still warm enough!!!

We started school this morning. Fina recited her poems to me, then I reread "The Unseen Playmate" and "My Ship and I." We read three new poems: "My Kingdom," "Picture-Books in Winter" and "My Treasure." Still nothing new to learn. She says she will tell me when she hears one she really likes.

I read and she narrated "Cornelia's Jewels" from Fifty Famous Stories. It is a cute story. Her jewels are her sons, not worldly jewels.

We read and Fina narrated Genesis 37:1-4, 11, 28B (Joseph and his coat of many colours). She wanted to hear the whole story so I pulled out The Jesus Storybook Bible and we read the whole thing. (I was going to read it straight out of the bible, but it spans various chapters and there is all kinds of stuff in there I wasn't ready to tackle in one story. See Genesis 38!

Paddle to the Sea - chapter 5. I don't know why she has such a hard time narrating from Paddle. She loves the story and we talk about what is going on etc., but her narrations are very difficult for this. Much more so than for other stories. Maybe it is because it is so descriptive and not much actually happening... Has anyone else noticed this with this book? She definitely looks forward to reading it. She just gives a really shallow narration of it.

We finished reading our latest chapter of Peter Pan.
We took our lunch outside and spent an hour playing in the park.
Then we went to the library, because mom had to cover the circulation desk for the afternoon.

Fina did some scanning of books.

She listened to her Paddington audiobook, she flipped through books.
She also did some math

And she did her cursive work. We learned the letter "d" and were able to write dad!

Her d's were very good, very quickly.

After the library, we spent another hour and a bit out at the park, and were joined by her little friend K for a short while.  Over a week ago, the kids found a tire in the park (who knows!) and have since spent HOURS playing with it. Even Fina by herself, before K came, was rolling it around the park and playing with it in various ways, including dragging it up the play structure and rolling it down the slide.

A tire?!?!? More exciting than one would think.