Mr Beaver's Lodge
On Friday March 4, we started with Math. We watched the video for lesson 4, commutative properties (the things I'm learning), adding 0 to anything. I set the timer for 20 minutes and she was able to complete 4A, B, the word problems for C and all of 4D. We also did the extra page for the lesson, 4X. And we highlighted the math facts we now know on the page of 100 commutative properties for addition up to 9. See how quickly you know stuff? And the half above the diagonal line is the same as everything below it.
One of the questions asked you to make a silly word problem for 6+0=6. Fina could not do it! Too convoluted. It was so funny! She tried and tried but she kept adding too much stuff or trying to subtract, or a number of eggs and this many hatched and dinos and mom dinos and dad dinos. It was a disaster! But kind of fun for me to watch the whole thing just fall apart. We will keep trying with that. (It just shows the difference between decoding and encoding. She is able to convert word problems into an equation, most of the time. But going the other way? No way!!!)
We read these two from Aesop's Fables: "The Ants and the Grasshopper" and "The Ass Carrying the Image." She narrated them well
We read sections of the book of Ruth. She narrated them satisfactorily. Exposure, right?
We sang a few hymns, as well as "Behold the Lamb of God," which is scheduled at church for this weekend. We have a kind friend who is in the choir and she emails me the list every week after practice. We are so blessed to have friends.
We read the first half of "St Bridget" from Our Island Satins. She narrated it. The legends surrounding her are kind of neat. I did not know that her friends called dandelions "the little flame of God." They are somehow her flower. Very neat.
Let me quote this lovely passage from that chapter:
She is such a homelike saint this Bridget of the fair green island, and she dwells so close to the heart of the people, that it is their common everyday life which holds the most loving memory of her helpful kindness. In the first days of early spring her little flame-spiked flowers speak to them from the roadside, and bring her message of joy and hope, teelling of the return of life, the swelling of green buds, the magic of the spring. We call her flower the common dandelion, but to S. Bridget's friends it is 'the little flame of God' or 'the flower of S. Bride.' She herself has many names. Bridge or Bridget, 'Christ's Foster-Mother,' S. Bridget of the Mantle, the Pearl of Ireland.
We went on to do some more cursive. That "br" of the word brat. We did lots of work with it and I think she is getting it. Though it is hard!!! (Even I am learning how to make a b and an r together. Mine were not good. And I know, brat isn't a good word to practice a million times but it works for us!)
We worked from our memorization box. Fina recited one item from each section, plus reviewed our newer ones. She also learned two more lines from Twelfth Night. (She now has 9 lines of that passage memorized.) She likes it. She really does. When anyone asks her what her favourite part of school is, she always answers poetry. Which I am tickled about. I have no affinity for poetry.
We also read D'Aulaire's Trolls. We liked it a lot. It is beyond our free-read list.
We did school for about 2.5 hours today, and it went well. A little long, but good. No weeping or gnashing of teeth, which is great!
We had a quick lunch and Fina put the finishing touches on her birthday party for Rarity. She has been counting down to this for weeks.
Fina dressed in purple. When you haven't a purple wig, use a hand towel!
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