We listened to some Schubert this morning over breakfast.
We started with reading about the Knights of the Round Table from Our Island Story. Fina have a great narration.
We looked again at our picture study from last week, "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" by Jacques-Louis David. Fina looked at it for a few minutes in "silence" and then I turned it over and she drew this from memory.
I had her review her recitations. And guess what? She was able to do the whole Parable of the Mustard Seed on her own, without prompting. Maybe the "read it a bunch of times together" system really does work! I was completely floored!
She learned the cursive J. I do like her cursive a lot.
We read another poem from The Oxford Book of Children's Verse, entitled "Cradle Hymn," a lovely poem about a child and about baby Jesus.
We sang "She's Like the Swallow," our current folksong. Fina knows the first verse.
We did a bit of 11B and 11C of our math, and all of lesson 11D. It is mainly review, which is good.
Fina read pages 42-45 of Tony's Birds aloud to me.
Then she did some drawing / painting / nature study (we'll call it) from the bird that Tony was seeing in the story. Two tiny, lovely little paintings. I didn't get a proper photo of them and she has put them away "sorry, mom, I'm saving them for Christmas" but I can show you this photo of her while she was painting. We listened to some more Schubert while she painted and I prepared lunch.
We finished our week in three days, somehow, which is great, because I want to start week 23 right away and try to get in another good bit of school before Christmas.
We went out to play with our good friends J and J in the afternoon. A wonderful day!
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