January 29, AO year 1, week 11

We started our day with singing "Home on the Range." I read a tiny bit of our Italian bible. We read about the tower of Babel. We sang through our hymn.

Then I put on some Brahms to listen to as we did some cursive work. Fina wrote Shakespeare.

We worked on her recitation. We tried the memorization box. She recited one poem from A Child's Garden of Verse, one from When We Were Very Young, and one from the Shakespeare divider. Instead of using a post-it flag on the one we are on, I put a blank notecard with a paper clip on the top of it in each section as my "bookmark" for that section. They I put two sections at the front: one for brand new things to learn, and one for reviewing things until they are perfect and then will be moved to their respective section. It worked well.  (For Theseus' and Hippolyta's dialogue, Fina changed her voice to sound first like a man and then like a woman.  So cute!) We read a new poem, from When We Were Very Young, called "Lines and Squares." It was a funny poem.

We read "William Tell." As per the AO Advisory's advice, we used this version of it, rather than the one in Fifty Famous Stories Retold. It was very good. Fina quite enjoyed the apple on the head etc. She narrated it very well.

I read the rest of the passages from Judges: 6:36 - 7:25. She was able to narrate it well enough.  It is the story of Gideon. A little confusing, but she did ok.

We did chapter 7 of our catechism book.

We finished by filling in some of our math gaps. We did 28D, 28E1, 38F and 29B.  Reviewing telling time (she is great at it!) and subtraction.

Now we are going outside to play. It is going to plus 3 this afternoon!!!