Year 1, week 27, day 3, February 17

We re-listened to Palestrina's Tu es Petrus over breakfast.

I read Genesis 1:14-19, continuing on with the creation story, for Fina to narrate.

We learned the upper case cursive Z, and wow, our whole system fell apart here. We played with a few different ones. Fina has settled on this, it looks like an L with a line across the middle of it. (Rather than the one that looks like the lower case z, just bigger)

Here is her whole list of cursive letters.

And yet, we have finished all of our cursive letters. On to copywork next! That is going to be fun!

Fina reviewed her recitations. She has nearly the whole poem "The Lamb" memorized now. And has learned the first two of her six lines for our A Midsummer Night's Dream passage that we will be performing at co-op.

We read about "King Alfred" in Our Island Story. We stopped to narrate throughout and Fina gave excellent narrations. This story was a bit easier to relate to, I guess, since it involved less war description and more about cooking!

She did 15 minutes of math and completed 14F. We will do the test for lesson 14 next time.


We read about the Bobolink from The Burgess Bird Book and other blackbirds as well. Fina narrated.

We read our next poem, "Address to a Child during a Boisterous Winter Evening" by Dorothy Wordsworth from The Oxford Book of Children's Verse. Such lovely imagery about the wind. We enjoyed it!

We sang our folksong and hymn.
Fina read "A Lost Button" from Frog and Toad aloud.

We listened to our next piece by Palestrina, "O Magnus Mysterium" a 6-part motet. It was composed for Christmas and we looked up a translation of the Latin lyrics which speak of the babe being born in a manger and the angels singing etc.  We listened attentively and tried to discuss what we heard. It was a great study!

Fina crocheted for 30 minutes while I read to her from The Orange Fairy Book.

Then we did our nature study. We looked at the Bobolink, since we had just read about those birds.

Fina's dry-brush painting of the Bobolink

This is my painting. Try as I might, my beaks always look weird. I hope to improve!

It is still unseasonably warm here (with a high of plus 5 degrees celsius) and Fina was able to spend a few hours outside playing in the slush/snow/puddles with only splash pants and no coat on! Incredible for February. (Not so good for skiing!)