So, part of the reason for homeschooling is that learning would be enjoyable. The whining and crying are not the point! I've got a lot of work to do with her in regards to habit training. I know the whining and crying are there, no matter what we are doing. But I understand that she was getting frustrated with math. Fina works herself up into a tif (those of you who know her can just picture her face!) and I know she needs saving from her own emotions. How to do it, though. Never mind homeschooling - this whole parenting gig isn't an easy one.
Yesterday we had our second meeting of our local outdoor play group. We had gorgeous weather! We had a lot of fun with a few new people! The kids had a great day, making new friends along the way. The raked and jumped in leaf piles, buried a dead squirrel, played with worms, sticks, mud puddles and much more. Fina woke up very sick with a stuffy and runny nose, though. But we went anyway, not too worried about spreading germs outdoors (hopefully!).
Fina is still sick today. So we opted not to do any schooling. We have been playing memory and Uno and drinking lots of fluids. She was up for a few hours during the night. We will read some Peter Pan later today. But that is about it. This is a definite bonus of homeschooling. We will continue our school tomorrow, or when she is feeling more like herself.
Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
October 12 AO year 1, week 5
On Sunday, we went to a beautiful nature area in our town, on the museum grounds with dad, for a walk through town and some outside time (it hit 24 degrees or something, which is practically unheard of for this time of year in this part of our world). Fina found a few different leaves that had fallen and we brought out our new field guide and identified them (I think we identified them correctly). She took leaf rubbings while I navigated the field guide. This is what we came up with.
Aldar-leaved Buckthorn. It was yellow. (It is autumn here).
She also took another rubbing of it, drew it, coloured it in and "labelled" it! Ha!
We also found what we think is a Red-osier Dogwood leaf. It was red. She didn't take a rubbing of it. We just identified it. Its branches are red, as the guide says.
The mosquitoes were still out - the downside to having such warm temperatures. When it snows at the beginning of October (which it has for many of these since we moved to Manitoba), you can be sure that the mosquitoes die off! But we had a fun afternoon.
*****
Wow! Here we are, starting week 5!
Fina wanted to start with poetry. We re-read a bunch of old poems, and read two new ones, "From a Railway Carriage" and "Winter-Time." She learned to recite "Fairy Bread" and recited all her other poems except for "The Cow" which she did not want to recite (for some unexplained reason). We looked at the globe with a flashlight to represent the sun to see how the earth turns and it is night time in one part at the same time it is daytime somewhere else on earth. We were inspired by one of the poems "Sun Travels" that states poetically that the sun moves while different children experience night and day.
We read the Gospel for this coming Sunday. As I started to read it, Fina asked if she would have to narrate it. I guess it is sinking in. I told her no. I probably should have told her yes!
We read chapter 3 "The Romans Come Again" from Our Island Story. The continuation of Caesar going to Britain, with 800 ships this time. He was victorious but as they left, they got stuck in a storm and so many boats were damaged that the remaining ships had to make more trips back and forth to return all their soldiers. [That was my narration, not hers!] She narrated it well. We took a look at the map to see again the channel from France to England.
Continuing with Math. She is having a lot of trouble with 10, 11, 12, 13 and 20. We did like an hour of drilling these, but it didn't work that well. She still gets confused. We did MUS 14E and 14F. She gets that fine.
We had some trouble with whining today. She gets herself so worked up about nothing. We talked about it after and we're going to try this out (we'll see if it works). When she starts whining, I am to stop what I am doing and hug and kiss her, and she will try to stop. We wasted a lot of time during math with this whining which escalated to full-out crying. Fun times!
We read "How the Camel got its Hump" from Just So Stories. She narrated it well.
We continued with the cursive letter h. She is trying and is doing well, though her shapes are not consistent. We will continue with it. She wrote h, hh and hhhh today.
We read chapters 7 and 8 of Peter Pan as part of our free reading.
Aldar-leaved Buckthorn. It was yellow. (It is autumn here).
She also took another rubbing of it, drew it, coloured it in and "labelled" it! Ha!
We also found what we think is a Red-osier Dogwood leaf. It was red. She didn't take a rubbing of it. We just identified it. Its branches are red, as the guide says.
The mosquitoes were still out - the downside to having such warm temperatures. When it snows at the beginning of October (which it has for many of these since we moved to Manitoba), you can be sure that the mosquitoes die off! But we had a fun afternoon.
*****
Wow! Here we are, starting week 5!
Fina wanted to start with poetry. We re-read a bunch of old poems, and read two new ones, "From a Railway Carriage" and "Winter-Time." She learned to recite "Fairy Bread" and recited all her other poems except for "The Cow" which she did not want to recite (for some unexplained reason). We looked at the globe with a flashlight to represent the sun to see how the earth turns and it is night time in one part at the same time it is daytime somewhere else on earth. We were inspired by one of the poems "Sun Travels" that states poetically that the sun moves while different children experience night and day.
"and when at eve I rise from tea [in England, presumably]This poem was from a few weeks back, but she asked for it by name (again, for some unexplained reason). So we read it and I thought we should talk about the fact that the sun does not travel, but we feel like it moves, because we are moving. I was able to explain that it takes 24 hours for the earth to rotate all around, part of it day, part of it night. Fina said she wanted to rotate the globe that slowly. She tried and it took her about 35 seconds to rotate it slowly and she was quite content with that!
Day dawns beyond the Atlantic Sea"
We read the Gospel for this coming Sunday. As I started to read it, Fina asked if she would have to narrate it. I guess it is sinking in. I told her no. I probably should have told her yes!
We read chapter 3 "The Romans Come Again" from Our Island Story. The continuation of Caesar going to Britain, with 800 ships this time. He was victorious but as they left, they got stuck in a storm and so many boats were damaged that the remaining ships had to make more trips back and forth to return all their soldiers. [That was my narration, not hers!] She narrated it well. We took a look at the map to see again the channel from France to England.
Continuing with Math. She is having a lot of trouble with 10, 11, 12, 13 and 20. We did like an hour of drilling these, but it didn't work that well. She still gets confused. We did MUS 14E and 14F. She gets that fine.
We had some trouble with whining today. She gets herself so worked up about nothing. We talked about it after and we're going to try this out (we'll see if it works). When she starts whining, I am to stop what I am doing and hug and kiss her, and she will try to stop. We wasted a lot of time during math with this whining which escalated to full-out crying. Fun times!
We read "How the Camel got its Hump" from Just So Stories. She narrated it well.
We continued with the cursive letter h. She is trying and is doing well, though her shapes are not consistent. We will continue with it. She wrote h, hh and hhhh today.
We read chapters 7 and 8 of Peter Pan as part of our free reading.
Friday, 9 October 2015
October 9, AO year 1, week 4
Oh my, today wasn't the best. Of course, it was the first time dad was sitting right here, near us, on the computer. Not good!
Realistically, it was fine. We just had a bit more whining and complaining around the cursive time. We need to keep working on that. (Having dad sitting here is kind of like having a video camera on you. You realize that things do not look pretty!)
She did some cursive h. It is a tricky letter and she will do fine. She just needs to concentrate to make it happen.
The we read Genesis 25:27-34. She narrated Esau giving up his birthright for a bowl of lentils and some bread to Jacob fine.
Then we did some poetry. We read "The Looking-Glass River" and "Fairy Bread." She now can recite "Rain," "Singing," "Happy Thought," "The Cow" (almost) and "Time to Rise" (almost). We also started learning "Fairy Bread" to recite, though that one is difficult to recite.
We moved on to Chapter 2 of the Burgess Bird Book, "The Old Orchard Bully - the Sparrow." She was able to narrate that after an entire reading. These stories are quite cute. They are descriptive (which gets lost in narration), but the story itself is funny and the characters are memorable. We looked up both the Wren and the Sparrow in our brand new Saskatchewan and Manitoba Nature Guide! There is a series of field guides put out by Lone Pine. (Thanks to our friend E, for suggesting it to us. I found it to be the cheapest at indigo.ca at the moment.) We also finally bought our Handbook for Nature Study which will last us through all of homeschooling. In CM circles, it is like the Bible for Nature Study. Nature study, here we come!
And then she did some more math. 14 C and 14 D. She is still getting confused with the teens (not easy), so I've been randomly drilling her on 10, 11, 12 and 13. 14-19 make more sense in English!
That is it for today.
Oh, and the last two nights the aurora borealis was supposed to be visible in our part of the world, but it has been so terribly cloudy that I haven't been able to see it, though I have woken up a couple of times to check it. I had a dream the other night that we were at church and Fina and I saw it and I was excitedly telling Fr D (our pastor) that it was our first time seeing it. Does that count?
Realistically, it was fine. We just had a bit more whining and complaining around the cursive time. We need to keep working on that. (Having dad sitting here is kind of like having a video camera on you. You realize that things do not look pretty!)
She did some cursive h. It is a tricky letter and she will do fine. She just needs to concentrate to make it happen.
The we read Genesis 25:27-34. She narrated Esau giving up his birthright for a bowl of lentils and some bread to Jacob fine.
Then we did some poetry. We read "The Looking-Glass River" and "Fairy Bread." She now can recite "Rain," "Singing," "Happy Thought," "The Cow" (almost) and "Time to Rise" (almost). We also started learning "Fairy Bread" to recite, though that one is difficult to recite.
We moved on to Chapter 2 of the Burgess Bird Book, "The Old Orchard Bully - the Sparrow." She was able to narrate that after an entire reading. These stories are quite cute. They are descriptive (which gets lost in narration), but the story itself is funny and the characters are memorable. We looked up both the Wren and the Sparrow in our brand new Saskatchewan and Manitoba Nature Guide! There is a series of field guides put out by Lone Pine. (Thanks to our friend E, for suggesting it to us. I found it to be the cheapest at indigo.ca at the moment.) We also finally bought our Handbook for Nature Study which will last us through all of homeschooling. In CM circles, it is like the Bible for Nature Study. Nature study, here we come!
And then she did some more math. 14 C and 14 D. She is still getting confused with the teens (not easy), so I've been randomly drilling her on 10, 11, 12 and 13. 14-19 make more sense in English!
That is it for today.
Oh, and the last two nights the aurora borealis was supposed to be visible in our part of the world, but it has been so terribly cloudy that I haven't been able to see it, though I have woken up a couple of times to check it. I had a dream the other night that we were at church and Fina and I saw it and I was excitedly telling Fr D (our pastor) that it was our first time seeing it. Does that count?
October 8, AO year 1, week 4
Well, another emergency library day, to cover for the librarian.
So, I brought some school work along. Fina was able to do some math, 14A and 14B.
She wrote a bunch of words with the letter x in them and other words for her cursive. She did so well. What a difference that focusing (and no whining, flailing, falling allowed in the library, because there are other people there) makes!
And she beaded a necklace.
She recited some poetry to me.
We read a few books while at the library. She helped me gather books, scan books, put things away etc. She helped me go to the post office and drag stacks of ILL books back to the library. She was happy to colour and work independently while I was dealing with library patrons. (Not always patiently, but still)
Our friends J and J came to pick her up after lunch and took her to the park until I was done. It was cold, though, and when I found them they were just about ready to go. Thanks to J and J she got a few hours outside!
When we got home, we finished the chapter of Peter Pan that we had been reading, at her request.
So, I brought some school work along. Fina was able to do some math, 14A and 14B.
She wrote a bunch of words with the letter x in them and other words for her cursive. She did so well. What a difference that focusing (and no whining, flailing, falling allowed in the library, because there are other people there) makes!
And she beaded a necklace.
She recited some poetry to me.
We read a few books while at the library. She helped me gather books, scan books, put things away etc. She helped me go to the post office and drag stacks of ILL books back to the library. She was happy to colour and work independently while I was dealing with library patrons. (Not always patiently, but still)
Our friends J and J came to pick her up after lunch and took her to the park until I was done. It was cold, though, and when I found them they were just about ready to go. Thanks to J and J she got a few hours outside!
When we got home, we finished the chapter of Peter Pan that we had been reading, at her request.
Wednesday, 7 October 2015
October 7, AO year 1, week 4
So, yesterday we had the first weekly meeting of our outdoor playgroup here in our little town. It was great fun. We had our regular people plus two boys (6 and 8 yr olds) whose pregnant mom went home to nap with her two year old. More of the village raising kids. It was nice to help her out and her boys were very fun and were well enjoyed by the other kids. Fina had never really had dealings with them and said that they were very nice and very fun. So that was great. The weather was just beautiful! It was a great afternoon outside for us! Unfortunately, I didn't get any pics. At the end of the afternoon, the kids found their way to a giant mud puddle, the only water anywhere for miles around, but they found it! Fina was covered in mud, but very happy. I had her splash pants and boots, but she went in with her pants and bare feet. That shows you how warm it was.
I've put up posters around town for our outdoor playgroup and I'm hoping we get more people next week.
Listened to Brahms during breakfast.
Of course, Fina wanted to do poetry first. We read some new poems: "The Swing" and "Time to Rise." She almost has "The Cow" memorized. She needs to work on the last stanza. She enjoys reciting poetry.
We read "Moses the Kitten," the first chapter from James Herriott's Treasury for Children. James Herriott is a vet and he tells of his adventures. It was very cute. Lots of pics, which is different for our school work, and Fina narrated it very well. The gist of it is that the vet finds a baby kitten on a farm and the farmer and his wife take care of it. The farmers have a sow who had just had 12 piglets, so they had put a heater in with the pigs to keep them arm. So they put the kitten and his bowl of milk in there to keep him warm as well. The next time the vet comes, the farmer shows his a funny sight. The kitten had decided to suckle with the other piglets and cuddles up with the sow all the time and follows her around. The kitten becomes part of the pig family. Even years later, the cat looks at the pig barn lovingly.
Fina's a bit antsy today. (Our homeschooling friends in town went out to jump on their trampoline for a few minutes before starting school today. We can't do that, but we can do some yoga. Indoor movement). Fina wanted to do episode 9, "Mike the Cosmic Space Monkey" from www.cosmickids.com. It is a shorter one, but a good episode.
Then we continued working on her cursive x, and ax as well. She did fine. Though we really need to keep working on paying attention (and not throwing herself on the floor whining, with mom raising her voice. Yeah, not a stellar moment for us.) It isn't that the cursive itself is difficult for her. She likes it to be perfect (and so do I) but she gets so easily frustrated. Part of it is her acting very dramatic, everything is the end of the world etc. Very annoying to me. Very fun yet upsetting for her. And a great waste of time for all of us. How I am going to fix this, I don't know. Her letters were fine though, of course! My mother would say "B-R-A-T!" At least if there was frustration for a real cause, it would be a bit easier to handle. I literally prayed aloud that God would help me not be upset, and she kept whining right through it. Help! Thankfully this doesn't happen all the time, but I would love it to NEVER happen. I'm asking too much, right?
We got over that spat just fine and moved on to some fun and well-done narration. We read "Alexander and Bucephalus" as well as "Diogenes" from Fifty Famous Stories. Becephalus is Alexander the Great's horse. The boy Alexander tames him and his father realizes he is destined for great things. Diogenes is a wise old crazy man who Alexander goes to visit. Alexander asks is there is anything he needs, and Diogenes just asks him to move out of his sunlight. Alexander says to his soldiers "If I could not be Alexander, I would be Diogenes." She got it, I think. Cute stories from Greek history. We are going to the add these historical figures to our Timeline.
Then we read two Aesop Fables: "The Kid and the Wolf" and "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse." She narrated them fine as well
On to MUS, 13D, E and F. She gets it very well, but is slow to get through her pages, and then gets tired of Math. I would like her to give her full attention to what she is doing. She is learning, though. It isn't dire (yet!). I might consider doing the timer thing. She gets the concepts and she enjoys it. She just likes to fiddle around and work slowly, I think. We will keep working on it.
Catechism Session 3. "God is our Father." Fina drew a picture of Jesus holding her hand and holding mom's hand.
The Bible is God's message to us. It shows us how God loves us. God sent Jesus to show us how to love.
Overall, it was a bit of a stressful and finicky day, (though it got better) but certainly not as bad as I had anticipated that some of our school days could be. This is just to show you things aren't perfect at home. But we are happy to be doing this together!
I've put up posters around town for our outdoor playgroup and I'm hoping we get more people next week.
Listened to Brahms during breakfast.
Of course, Fina wanted to do poetry first. We read some new poems: "The Swing" and "Time to Rise." She almost has "The Cow" memorized. She needs to work on the last stanza. She enjoys reciting poetry.
We read "Moses the Kitten," the first chapter from James Herriott's Treasury for Children. James Herriott is a vet and he tells of his adventures. It was very cute. Lots of pics, which is different for our school work, and Fina narrated it very well. The gist of it is that the vet finds a baby kitten on a farm and the farmer and his wife take care of it. The farmers have a sow who had just had 12 piglets, so they had put a heater in with the pigs to keep them arm. So they put the kitten and his bowl of milk in there to keep him warm as well. The next time the vet comes, the farmer shows his a funny sight. The kitten had decided to suckle with the other piglets and cuddles up with the sow all the time and follows her around. The kitten becomes part of the pig family. Even years later, the cat looks at the pig barn lovingly.
Fina's a bit antsy today. (Our homeschooling friends in town went out to jump on their trampoline for a few minutes before starting school today. We can't do that, but we can do some yoga. Indoor movement). Fina wanted to do episode 9, "Mike the Cosmic Space Monkey" from www.cosmickids.com. It is a shorter one, but a good episode.
Then we continued working on her cursive x, and ax as well. She did fine. Though we really need to keep working on paying attention (and not throwing herself on the floor whining, with mom raising her voice. Yeah, not a stellar moment for us.) It isn't that the cursive itself is difficult for her. She likes it to be perfect (and so do I) but she gets so easily frustrated. Part of it is her acting very dramatic, everything is the end of the world etc. Very annoying to me. Very fun yet upsetting for her. And a great waste of time for all of us. How I am going to fix this, I don't know. Her letters were fine though, of course! My mother would say "B-R-A-T!" At least if there was frustration for a real cause, it would be a bit easier to handle. I literally prayed aloud that God would help me not be upset, and she kept whining right through it. Help! Thankfully this doesn't happen all the time, but I would love it to NEVER happen. I'm asking too much, right?
We got over that spat just fine and moved on to some fun and well-done narration. We read "Alexander and Bucephalus" as well as "Diogenes" from Fifty Famous Stories. Becephalus is Alexander the Great's horse. The boy Alexander tames him and his father realizes he is destined for great things. Diogenes is a wise old crazy man who Alexander goes to visit. Alexander asks is there is anything he needs, and Diogenes just asks him to move out of his sunlight. Alexander says to his soldiers "If I could not be Alexander, I would be Diogenes." She got it, I think. Cute stories from Greek history. We are going to the add these historical figures to our Timeline.
Then we read two Aesop Fables: "The Kid and the Wolf" and "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse." She narrated them fine as well
On to MUS, 13D, E and F. She gets it very well, but is slow to get through her pages, and then gets tired of Math. I would like her to give her full attention to what she is doing. She is learning, though. It isn't dire (yet!). I might consider doing the timer thing. She gets the concepts and she enjoys it. She just likes to fiddle around and work slowly, I think. We will keep working on it.
Catechism Session 3. "God is our Father." Fina drew a picture of Jesus holding her hand and holding mom's hand.
The Bible is God's message to us. It shows us how God loves us. God sent Jesus to show us how to love.
Overall, it was a bit of a stressful and finicky day, (though it got better) but certainly not as bad as I had anticipated that some of our school days could be. This is just to show you things aren't perfect at home. But we are happy to be doing this together!
Monday, 5 October 2015
October 5, AO year 1, week 4
On Friday night, at the dinner table, Fina started reciting lines 3 and 4 from one of the poems we have read recently "The Cow." Within 5 minutes, she had learned a whole stanza and a bit more.
Over the last year, we have listened to the Little House books on audiobook. She has quite enjoyed them. And she knows what a slough is. I do not! (We love Cherry Jones' reading all nine books. We heard them on youtube, but I can't seem to find them to provide a link. I know they can be purchased. Just last week we started listening to Winnie-the-Pooh on audiobook. We discovered audiobooks a few years ago. They make tooth brushing time much easier for mom (because Fina just lays there with her mouth open).
Today turned into a helping others kind of day, not of our planning. The blessing of homeschooling. Fina was up from 2-4am for some reason. She was uncomfortable, she had to change her pjs, this morning she said that she was awake because her head was spinning (though she didn't say that during the night). At about 8:30, I got a note from our friend across the street asking if we'd walk Fina's little friend K to school, because K's little baby sister C had a stomach thing. Well, Fina slept til 9am, so K had to just wait. Fina got dressed quickly and we walked K to school. We swung by the library to hang a poster for our "outdoor playgroup" that is starting tomorrow. Then we came home, Fina got back into her pj and had her breakfast. We were just about to start our schooling at 10:30, when we got a note from our friendly librarian whose young son was also sick and needed to be picked up from school.
Well, Fina had to get dressed again, and away we walked back to the library. We filled in for the library all day. Fina helped out a lot, stamping the library address in some new books, collecting books for me every time someone left books in the drop box, putting books I had checked in onto the shelving cart. I had packed some colouring and some Lego for her to do, as well as her school work.
We were able to finish reading the last half of the story of St Augustine of Canterbury. She narrated it well enough (I didn't split the second half at all, I just read it straight through).
We came home for lunch and had a quick chat on Facetime with my dad who told her the story of St Augustine. He reinforced what we had learned and Fina was quite surprised that nonno knew the whole thing.
We went back to the library. She learned her cursive letter x. She was able to work independently while I dealt with patrons at the circulation desk. She also reviewed all her letters on her own (I had written them in upper case print on a scrap piece of paper, and she transcribed each one into cursive.)
She also was able to complete two pages of MUS, 13A and 13B on her own. Yay for independent work.
Over the last year, we have listened to the Little House books on audiobook. She has quite enjoyed them. And she knows what a slough is. I do not! (We love Cherry Jones' reading all nine books. We heard them on youtube, but I can't seem to find them to provide a link. I know they can be purchased. Just last week we started listening to Winnie-the-Pooh on audiobook. We discovered audiobooks a few years ago. They make tooth brushing time much easier for mom (because Fina just lays there with her mouth open).
Today turned into a helping others kind of day, not of our planning. The blessing of homeschooling. Fina was up from 2-4am for some reason. She was uncomfortable, she had to change her pjs, this morning she said that she was awake because her head was spinning (though she didn't say that during the night). At about 8:30, I got a note from our friend across the street asking if we'd walk Fina's little friend K to school, because K's little baby sister C had a stomach thing. Well, Fina slept til 9am, so K had to just wait. Fina got dressed quickly and we walked K to school. We swung by the library to hang a poster for our "outdoor playgroup" that is starting tomorrow. Then we came home, Fina got back into her pj and had her breakfast. We were just about to start our schooling at 10:30, when we got a note from our friendly librarian whose young son was also sick and needed to be picked up from school.
Well, Fina had to get dressed again, and away we walked back to the library. We filled in for the library all day. Fina helped out a lot, stamping the library address in some new books, collecting books for me every time someone left books in the drop box, putting books I had checked in onto the shelving cart. I had packed some colouring and some Lego for her to do, as well as her school work.
We were able to finish reading the last half of the story of St Augustine of Canterbury. She narrated it well enough (I didn't split the second half at all, I just read it straight through).
We came home for lunch and had a quick chat on Facetime with my dad who told her the story of St Augustine. He reinforced what we had learned and Fina was quite surprised that nonno knew the whole thing.
We went back to the library. She learned her cursive letter x. She was able to work independently while I dealt with patrons at the circulation desk. She also reviewed all her letters on her own (I had written them in upper case print on a scrap piece of paper, and she transcribed each one into cursive.)
She also was able to complete two pages of MUS, 13A and 13B on her own. Yay for independent work.
She played with her Lego, she coloured, and she spent a lot of time finding books to sign out as well as flipping through books.
It was a real bonus to be able to help people out, while still getting some school work done. A definite bonus for homeschooling.
While at the library (which is attached to the local school) we saw her friend K who came in with her class, and then also her friend M who also came in with her class. So that was quite nice. And K's mom came to pick Fina up from the library once K was home from school so that the girls could play at the park for a while. It is so nice that the village is raising Fina. It is so nice to have other moms who rely on me and on whom I can rely. Fina got an hour and a half outdoors, which would not have been possible if she was with me inside the library until 5pm.
All in all, it was a great day. A little light, and not the most exciting for her, being in a building for hours and hours, but it was great!
Friday, 2 October 2015
October 2, AO yr 1, week 3
The joys of homeschooling. We were able to take yesterday off, for a very constructive meeting for mom with a fellow homeschooler. We are looking to start up a Charlotte Mason homeschooler's coop in our town. The basic idea is that we will cover Shakespeare, composer study, picture/artist study, handicrafts, nature study and hymn study as a group. The feast subjects!) You will certainly hear more about it when we get started up.
Yesterday, we also volunteered a couple hours of our time to our good friend Kim at her wonderful local shop The Artist Pivot. It is their 2nd birthday at the store and Fina and I went to pack some goody bags for kids for next week.
Then we still got in some outdoor time on an afternoon that warmed up nicely. Look what Fina was FINALLY able to do!
And, we watched the federal election debate for the MP candidates for our riding of Provencher. Fina knows the 4 parties by their colours. The Green guy works with dad.
And now we are ending our week on a Friday (instead of a Thursday). It all washes out in the end. The idea is to have 36 weeks, of about 4 days each per year. We can school whenever we like, take off weeks or days whenever we like. At any rate, we are right on track, being able to complete our week in 4 schooling days. And realistically, though, our weeks might not always start on a Monday. And I am really fine with that!
Today we are just finishing up some remaining items for week 3.
Fina wrote a bunch of words that can be written with the cursive letters she has learned so far. A good review day (as scheduled in the list I am using. Worked out great for us today!)
MUS 12E and 12F. And a few more pages from the Primer Activities Booklet: 12X through 15X.
And on to poetry. We reread the last bunch, recited the three she knows (she also gave a lovely recitation of her poems yesterday to our friend, C, at dad's work. And showed him all her cursive letters). We read "The Sun Travels," "The Lamplighter," "My Bed is a Boat" and "The Moon." I think we will try to learn "The Moon" possibly. It has has a bat that lies in bed at noon, so she likes that!
And now we are going to help out another friend and get in some more lovely outdoor time as well. The weather is holding up very nicely for our part of the world!
Still to do: I want to get more structured foreign language time. It will need to be part of our daily schedule somehow. But I am so pleased that this co-op is going to help me cover the things that I need to work into our regular routine.
Yesterday, we also volunteered a couple hours of our time to our good friend Kim at her wonderful local shop The Artist Pivot. It is their 2nd birthday at the store and Fina and I went to pack some goody bags for kids for next week.
Then we still got in some outdoor time on an afternoon that warmed up nicely. Look what Fina was FINALLY able to do!
And, we watched the federal election debate for the MP candidates for our riding of Provencher. Fina knows the 4 parties by their colours. The Green guy works with dad.
And now we are ending our week on a Friday (instead of a Thursday). It all washes out in the end. The idea is to have 36 weeks, of about 4 days each per year. We can school whenever we like, take off weeks or days whenever we like. At any rate, we are right on track, being able to complete our week in 4 schooling days. And realistically, though, our weeks might not always start on a Monday. And I am really fine with that!
Today we are just finishing up some remaining items for week 3.
Fina wrote a bunch of words that can be written with the cursive letters she has learned so far. A good review day (as scheduled in the list I am using. Worked out great for us today!)
MUS 12E and 12F. And a few more pages from the Primer Activities Booklet: 12X through 15X.
And on to poetry. We reread the last bunch, recited the three she knows (she also gave a lovely recitation of her poems yesterday to our friend, C, at dad's work. And showed him all her cursive letters). We read "The Sun Travels," "The Lamplighter," "My Bed is a Boat" and "The Moon." I think we will try to learn "The Moon" possibly. It has has a bat that lies in bed at noon, so she likes that!
And now we are going to help out another friend and get in some more lovely outdoor time as well. The weather is holding up very nicely for our part of the world!
Still to do: I want to get more structured foreign language time. It will need to be part of our daily schedule somehow. But I am so pleased that this co-op is going to help me cover the things that I need to work into our regular routine.
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