AO year 1, week 24, January 18

The temperatures have really warmed up here. Last week we are -40 celsius and today we are going to plus 1. We were out for hours yesterday with our outdoor playgroup in the warmth. It wasn't windy. It was sunny, with beautiful clouds. A marvellous day!

I read the story of St Hugh from Our Island Saints to Fina (that we did not read last week). We enjoyed it.

I read Matthew 3:1-6 and Fina narrated.
She learned the cursive letter O.

Fina read a few pages from the Berenstain Bear's Bible aloud to me.
We sang our folksong.
I read "Gregory and the Pretty Children" from An Island Story. We recognized part of it which we heard during the story of Saint Augustine way back in week 3 in Our Island Saints.  Fina gave a great narration of it.
Fina worked on her recitations. She learned lines 4 an 5 of our current passage from Twelfth Night.  We also continued with the Parable of the Sower.
Fina completed math lessons 12C and D.
We sang through our hymn.
I read two Aesop Fables, "The Fox and the Leopard" and "The Heron." Fina gave good narrations of both stories.
We read the next poem in The Oxford Book of Children's Verse.

It was a beautiful, sunny and warm day (we did get above 0 celsius) without wind, so we spent the afternoon outside.  It was marvellous! Fina got to ski on our ski trail in town (so much fun. We are blessed!) and she also skied in the park and played too.

making her way up the hill!

Unzipped jacket and the whole bit. 

She only had mitts on because she had her hands in the snow.

We were out for about 3 hours and then she continued to play with her public school friends once they came home from school.

And Fina built a little snowman. Here in our dry, very cold temperatures, we don't often get snow that allows for such frivolity, so that was a great thing for her!