leading up to Wednesday March 23, AO year 1, week 15

Tuesday March 22

Fina was so excited about learning to read that we continued on to Book 1:2 ("Sam") and book 1:3 ("Dot").  It is great to see her so excited about reading. "I just discovered that all you have to do is sound out the letters. I never knew that," she said. Wonderful!

We spent a great afternoon with our outdoor playgroup. So muddy and so fun. (It was a bit chilly, but Fina had a great time!)

Here she is in the middle with a small section of our outdoor playgroup. Little piggies in the mud!

Wednesday March 23

Every morning we check on our bean plant. It is really coming along nicely! Fina enjoys talking about the trifoliate leaves and such.

Today we finished up our chapter on "St Bridget" in Our Island Saints which was scheduled last week. She didn't really narrate it.

She wanted me to read from our current free-read book, The Red Fairy Book. So I read "Twelve Brothers," "Rapunzel" and "Mother Holle." We both enjoyed these three fairy tales.

She asked to do her reading next, she is so excited!  We did book 1:4 ("Mac").  The new sound is the letter B: the lower case b is easily confused with upper case B. (Hence why cursive is better than print. No confusion there!!!)  She is really enjoying reading.

Next, I read "Whittington and the Cat" from Fifty Famous Stories Retold. We broke it up into the 5 chunks and she gave wonderful narrations! It is such a great story.

We worked through our memorization box. We finished the bonus passage from The Tempest I, v, 266-270.  She has it almost memorized now, she learns so quickly. Olivia's passage  "Thy tongue, thy face ... Even so quickly may one catch the plague?" She has stick-to-it-ness, that is for sure. She learned it by repeating it a bunch of times in 5 or 6 minutes.

I read a few poems to her from When We Were Very Young: "Shoes and Stockings," "Sand-between-the-toes" and "Little Bo-Peep and Little Boy Blue." She loves poetry.

We did chapter 18 of our catechism book, which talks about the Last Supper. And we did the holy week section at page 165 and following.

I put on some Schubert as we had lunch.

There are a bunch of things I'm trying to find time for during our week, such as working on some more creative writing, getting in some more time for painting and drawing, and I would like her to try to write her own poem. But I'll let her lead on that for now.

This afternoon, we are going outside to enjoy the sunshine (and hopefully a bike ride).

Thanks for joining us!