She wasn't sad. The pic is to show her sign. "Birdwatching only"
She spent a long time on Sunday setting up her studio, complete with pencils, pencil crayons, sketch books, loose papers and all her field guides. We have the bird feeder in the perfect spot, because we can open the other French door and just stick our hand out to fill it. Fina sat there, quiet and still, for over a half an hour this morning, waiting to spot something, but no birds came. I believe that conventional wisdom suggests it can take a few days for the birds to come. We hope to see some soon.
We read the last three poems from Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne. All three were very cute. We are a bit sad to leave this poetry, but we are moving on to The Oxford Book of Children's Verse, edited by Iona and Peter Opie. I found this 1973 edition at a used book sale, so we are using that one.
Fina has been wanting to time her math lesson. In 10 minutes, she was able to complete one lesson, lesson 10D today.
I read "How Napoleon Crossed the Alps" from Fifty Famous Stories. A short story. Fina gave an excellent narration and recognized that we heard about his wife in "Picciola" from the same book just last week. We looked at the map and the globe to see where the Alps are and how Napoleon crossed from France to Italy over them. I showed Fina some photos of the Alps, which led to us looking at people taking pics of themselves on the peaks, which led us to watching a video of a group of people who climbed up the Alps. Fina said "one day, SF and I are going to climb up the Alps. We would love that. Is there anywhere in Manitoba where we can practice climbing up rocky mountains like that?" Poor kid! No, we live in the Prairies!
We sang our Advent hymn. Fina learned the cursive letter E.
Fina worked on her recitations. She now knows the first 3 lines of "What is love?" from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
And we did our next picture study, Jacques-Louis David's "Napoleon Crossing the Alps at the St Bernard Pass."
"This is Napoleon? The same Napoleon?" she says. How fun! She did a great job, seeing many details and really enjoying seeing the scene with the soldiers, the cannons and the horses.
Fina finished reading Plenty of Fish to me and we read another few pages of Tony's Birds. It is astounding at how she can read!
We listened to some Schubert over lunch (we have been neglecting our composer study since we returned home).
We spent the afternoon visiting a good friend of ours, and then Fina stayed out playing for quite a few hours. We have snow now (and much more on the way this week, it seems) so she tried out her $3 thrift store plastic skis and her snow shoes from last year as well.
Fina also received some lovely gifts and $20 from a kind colleague of dad's. Fina had painted a painting for her office, entitled "Sparkly Cat." Wow, money for her art. Incredible! I can't seem to find a photo of it, but I will get one and post it here when I am able. Again I say incredible. Fina said she will use her money for art supplies or towards a wood carving set that she wants. Look out world!
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