April 11, AO year 1, week 16

We started our morning with listening to some Schubert.

Our new hymn is "A Place at the Table" by Lori True, #812 from our church hymnal. It is a lovely hymn about social justice.  It brings tears to me eyes every time.  Fina likes singing it.

I read the readings for Sunday. Jesus as the Good Shepherd.

We did 7A in our math, continuing to add plus 2.

We sang through our current folksong, "I've Been Working on the Railroad." Here is Pete Seeger's rendition from youtube.

We worked through our memorization box. She now knows "Angel of God" almost. And we learned the first four lines of Viola and the Captain's dialogue from Twelfth Night I, ii, 1-ff. "What country, friends, is this?"

Fina asked why all the Shakespeare voice actors we hear speak with a British accent. I said "because Shakespeare was British."  "Oh," she said!

We continued our poetry from When We Were Very Young. Our new poems today were "Bad Sir Brian Botany" and "In the Fashions."

We continued with our learning to read with Bob Books. Fina reread 1:7 as review and then we learned a few new sounds and read through 1:8 ""Muff and Ruff." To quote Fina, "it was hard work!" She is doing wonderfully!

We read "Old Man Kangaroo" from Kipling's Just So Stories. Fina gave an excellent narration afterwards.

We did chapter 12 of our catechism, talking about the Holy Spirit. Fina was all into it today and told me a big story about how she had a sign at church a while ago where she saw a giant cross made of light out the window and now she realized that it is a sign that God wants her to become a nun, she just didn't realize that was what it meant. It was quite the discussion we had.

The left is the cross made of light. 

The two shapes on the right are the layout of our church building.

An hour later she said she also wants to become a nun because no one wants to marry her. Ha!

We had a great school day today.  Fina will be out playing with her little friend after PS lets out this afternoon. The forecast is looking good for the next two weeks with high in the low teens above 0.