AO year 1, week 21, December 9

On Thursday night, Fina participated in her first sacrament of reconciliation at our parish. It was wonderful. The pastor read the story of the Good Shepherd and gave a homily about that.  As the children returned from their sacrament, they each added a sheep to this little scene. It was lovely!

We listened to some Zecchino D'Oro this morning (Friday) over breakfast.

We sang "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" and caught up on our Jesse tree readings (we were two days behind).

Instead of cursive practice today, Fina wrote a couple of thank you cards for gifts received. We learned the upper case cursive M to write one of the recipients first name.

I read two new poems in The Oxford Book of Children's Verse and I reread the last three.
Fina recited her "What is Love?" from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and she pretty much has it memorized now. We read the Parable of the Mustard Seed aloud together.

We did chapter 10 from our catechism book speaking about Advent.
Fina took her math test for lesson 10. She only made a couple of errors (just careless mistakes, not actual comprehension problems). It was great.

We sang our folksong "My Paddle / Land of the Silver Birch."

Fina read a few pages of Tony's Birds aloud to her uncle on Facetime.

She spent the rest of the afternoon preparing her outfit and mask for a Christmas Banquet with a masquerade theme at dad's work.