April 13, AO year 1, week 16

We had a wonderful outdoor playgroup yesterday. The kids had so much fun, digging, exploring, wandering, showing eachother things, sharing their treasures, gathering, building. It was awesome!

Fina and her friend gathered vines to make crowns.

The whole crew of them, in a MB "tide pool" in our creek

Shells!

taking a break on an "island"

Bare toes in the sandy mud!

With a lot of determination and over 10 minutes of team work, 

they got this giant log into the creek!

We saw some interesting things as well for nature study as well (though the kids were too busy to look, another mom L and I had fun!)

Beaver's around, we never get to see them though!

Woodpecker, we think

It was such a wonderful day!


Today we started our school work with Chapter 13 of our catechism program.

We made our way through our memorization box.  Fina learned lines 5+6 of the passage by Viola and the Captain from Twelfth Night.  We read "The Alchemist" and "Growing Up" from When We Were Very Young.

I read "The Leap at Rhodes" and "The Wild Board and the Fox" from Aesop's Fables. Fina narrated them well.

We did 7D in our math.

Fina re-read 1:8 "Muff and Ruff" from our Bob books. It took a bit of work, but she did it. She didn't want to move on to the next one yet, so that was fine.

We sang through our folksong, "I've been working on the railroad," and our hymn "A Place at the Table" together.

Fina spent some time with our current picture study. She sketched this. How is that for attentive looking!