Leading up to February 19

Thursday February 18

Fina is very sick, with a bad flu. She is so drained and tired and just plain exhausted after a few hours.

She painted for a good portion of the day and we wanted to share her creations with you, our faithful followers.

Here are her paintings:

"The Rainforest" 

(to use up all the purple paint she had left on her palette.  All that talking about wasting paint works!)

"The Path"

This is a tiny canvas and easel (2.5 inches). Her inspiration for this was her friend SF's painting of a road going through the hillside.

"The Seamstress' Work" 

Mixed Media - buttons are glued on. The two things with white are spools of thread. 

The rest are balls of yarn.

"The Woof Woof"

painted on wood

"The Purple Sunset"

The sky is reflecting in the water

"The Snowy Night"

mixed media - the plastic snowflakes and the shell are glued on

"The Witch"

"The Planets"

Earth and Saturn

Friday February 19

This morning, we listened to some Schubert.   We started our Lenten devotions (we are a bit behind with that!)

We did some math. We finished up 1D and did Test 1. A good review of place values.  I'm so glad we went back and did Primer. I know I have said it a bunch of times. But Alpha lesson 1 doesn't give a lot of practice for place values. The work in Primer really helped her to know what she is doing.

In the extra math activities booklet, she did this and wanted to post a pic of it. (I think she may be getting into this whole blogging thing!)

It is a house.

Then she built other houses and castles (and a big Chartres Cathedral) with her manipulatives.
And then she worked on some handicrafts - she sewed a little pompom snowman as well as did some loom knitting. It is just that kind of day today!

Mom made the hat and sewed the pompon on.

Fina sewed together three pompoms to make the snow man and she stitched the eyes and carrot nose.

After a few days of being stuck inside, feeling under the weather, Fina finally convinced me to let her go out and play in the melting snow of plus 1 degree Celsius. So much fun!

I guess we will start week 13 next week!