AO year 1, week 20, December 2

We listened to some Zecchino D'Oro over breakfast.

We started with our math. Fina has been wanting to use a timer to do if she can get one lesson done in 10 minutes. She finished 10C just a few seconds after the timer rang.
Fina reluctantly tried her current recitation. She knows the first two lines (though she thinks she does not).
I read the next two poems from Now We Are Six, "Pinkle Purr" and "Wind on the Hill."

Fina learned her upper case cursive D. And we continued working on the C.

We did chapter 13 of her catechism, talking about forgiveness and reconciliation with God and with others.

We read all of Janet Lunn's Laura Secord: A Story of Courage. This is one of our three Canadian replacement biographies. We stopped throughout for Fina to narrate. She really enjoyed the story. The book has great illustrations and is written in a clear, yet exciting, way. I know it is a CM faux pas to read the whole thing in one sitting, but I chose to do it today. We don't often do that. We were both enjoying it and she was giving such good narrations.

Fina read aloud the next 5 pages from Tony's Birds.  She is reading very well.

When we bought the Lego Disney Castle, we got this Christmas build up set for free.  There are 24 little builds. We started it yesterday.  Here are day 1 and day 2's creations.

Sailboat

Reindeer (in front of our old Lego calendar)

Fina got to play outside with her friend K for a few hours in the evening.

We did our Jesse tree devotionals as a family after supper (we had to do yesterday and today's readings and ornaments since we missed it last night).  We have been singing "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" during the day as our hymn, but tonight we sang it as part of our advent family devotional time. Fina then wanted to read and sing all 7 verses for dad. It was incredible!

Then she pulled out two balls of yarn and taught dad how to fingerknit.

And they did some Lego work together as well. Now they are upstairs, in bed, reading Paddington.

We are finished up week 20 and I'm looking forward to week 21. I just noticed that even our chapter from Fifty Famous Stories is about Napoleon. You can't even plan this kind of serendipity. (Well, you can if you are doing unit studies, but this just happened!)

Thanks for joining us today.