Thursday 8 March 2018

It's March!

One day last week, we got no less than five lovely recitations of "Exodus 12:31-36" by Twilina. They were lovely! Then, we learned about quotation marks and various speakers as Fina read the narration and Twilina did the spoken parts, voicing pharaoh. Fun! As always, Fina so enjoys reciting. She is very expressive!

I want to recommend "Children of the Open Air" for Solfege lessons (you can find her channel on YouTube). Fina has learned how to notate these three little songs. Incredible.





She is quite proud of herself and has them hanging on the white board. I'm beyond impressed myself, actually.

Our math is going really well. We are at number 22 of Richele Baburina's The Charlotte Mason Elementary Arithmetic Series volume 1.

Fina is really excelling in our Spanish lessons as well. We have learned the "Padre Nuestro," she enjoys the Spanish songs and poems. We continue to use "La oruga muy hambrienta" story as our backdrop for learning vocabulary, grammar etc. She can narrate that book in Spanish so well!

Our recitations are fun, as always. She now knows Psalm 23 and is able to recite it from memory.

We are enjoying our composer (Handel) and artist (John Constable) for the term.

We do 20 minutes of piano every morning before our school lessons. She is enjoying it. I'm glad we waited.

Fina loves The Wanderings of Odysseus. We had gotten ahead in this literature book, so today I gave her the exam question for the term, before continuing on in the story.

Tell me about Odysseus on Calypso's island:
Odysseus landed on Calypso’s island. And he went up and she fell in love with him. And then he ended up staying with her, because she said “stay with me”  but he didn’t want to stay. He wanted to go back. She gave him clothes and food and lots of stuff. And they feasted for a long time. And then one of the gods came to Calypso and said “let him go.” So, she let him go. Even though she didn’t want to. She wanted him to stay with her. So she gave him all the material like wood and stuff that he needed to build a ship. She also gave him food and wine for his voyage. And then he kept sailing.
Good answer!

Fina reads aloud to me for 6 or 7 minutes each day. She reads so well, it sort of surprises me!

Look at this apple she painted in water colour! (Then she added on the background, but the colours of the apple are impressive!) She greatly enjoys brush drawing.


Enjoy this glimpse into our outside time these last few weeks:

in the forest

on the frozen creek with a big crew from our outdoor playgroup

skiing on a big snow pile in our park

skating!

the morning of our latest blizzard

in the forest after the blizzard