We read some poetry this morning during breakfast. I read "At the Zoo," "Rice Pudding," "Missing," "The King's Breakfast," "Hoppity" and "At Home" from When We Were Very Young. Fina just started reciting "The Christening," which we had read but never tried to memorize. So I added it to our memory box and she basically knows it already. (I love this because she chose it and learned it herself, essentially. Other than Shakespeare, where we learn each passage, for poetry, I always ask her if she wants to memorize this one or that one as we are reading them. But with "The Christening," it was so organically done. Just her brain, doing its own thing. Incredible!) We also reviewed our latest Shakespeare passage, which she also has essentially memorized now.
We sang through our folksong a few times, and listened to some Schubert.
We spent a good chunk of the day outside. The snow has melted really quickly and our creek is full to the brim. So is our forest. So is our frog pound.
This is the hill we had sledded on. Look at all that water!
The creek is on the left, of this land mass, the sledding hill backyard is on the right.
This is in the forest.
Yes, plus 14!!! We took off her pants and socks so she could talk through the ice cold puddles!
Our frog pond. Fina and her friend K waded in it to the top of their legs,
and sat in it and rubbed mud on their pants. (This water was not as cold as the forest puddles.)
Let's face it, it was mostly Fina doing the sitting and the mud rubbing.
Her friend was a bit appalled, but wanted to join in as best she could.
Tuesday March 15
We had our outdoor playgroup. The forest was even more flooded than Monday. We tried going in, but the water was up to their knees!
We watched the big chunks of ice float by on the creek. This one had to be at least 15 feet across. And very rectangular. So strange.
Then, we decided to head to the Frog Pond. They had some messy fun.
Fina also got to play outside with her friend K when she got home from school for another few hours.
We are listening to the Just So Stories on audiobook, read by Jim Weiss. Very fun. We are only going to listen to the ones we have already read, so as not to get ahead of ourselves.
I also read some more of The Red Fairy Book to Fina before bed, from our free-reads.
Wednesday March 16
We started the morning off with listening to some Schubert (and Fina did some much anticipated and wanted bead work! With all the outdoor play time, it seems we are having trouble squeezing in beads and Lego!)
And I had a chance to catch up with my scripture verse writing thing. I was happy to have a few minutes to do that.
We sang through our hymn and folksong ("Holy" and "Ice Worms").
We moved on to Math. We did the test for chapter 5. She did it wonderfully. Now we know the plus 0s and the plus 1s.
Baltimore Catechism, we have now done 1-3 and 6. It continues to provide for lively discussion.
For cursive, we looked at the letters y and z. It was a wonderful cursive day. Really wonderful!
Yes, that says "zeldog" which is the nickname of a dog, Zelda, that we know.
I read 1 Samuel 16: 1, 5-13 (David, the shepherd boy). Fina gave a very good narration.
"The Coming of Hengist and Horsa" from Our Island Story. Problematic narration, as usual. I'm not quite sure what to do about that. I'm not going to stress about it. I have read that they will get it the second time through. But this book is our history spine. I hate to leave it half baked, but I will!
We spent some time with our memorization box. We came to the big reveal that Cesario is actually Viola and Fina thought that was quite funny.
We caught up on some catechism.We did Chapter 20 about Lent and Holy Week. We also did the Lent section starting at page 161. Then we did the chapter on Christmas, chapter 15.
Now to do some sewing. And lunch at some point. And a few errands to run this afternoon.
Thanks for joining us!
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