Dec 14,2015

Monday at the park/cafe/home
We did: spelling, cursive practice, math, nature study, P.E., memory work, social studies, music appreciation, history.
At the cafe we worked on memorizing parts for the creche liturgy this Sunday. The children all read scripture. The girls then wrote their spelling words as I dictated them and E wrote a spelling sentence. E did her copy work.
At the park by M's work there is a duck pond. We discovered that the ducks and coots like to eat acorns. We saw geese eating them recently so we decided to offer some to the coots and ducks. We found some that were soft enough to peel with our fingers after the recent rains. when we exhausted this supply we found a bunch more that were larger and difficult to open. We decided to try smashing them open with a rock and picking out the insides to throw to the birds. We also saw mourning doves who ate a few bits and a black bird who sang to us but wouldn't eat any acorn bits. There was also a great blue heron observing all from afar in the reeds on the other side of the pond. We talked a bit about how people prepare acorns for food and how much work it is. The girls drew four nature drawings each including coot feet, duck feet, coot beaks, coot heads and acorns.
After this they played on the playground including hill sledding on boxes with some boys who were there.
in the car we listened to classical music and to English history: Our Island Story.
We came home and C did Khan academy math working mostly on line segments and place value E did her math ordering 4 two digit numbers, writing number words 20-100 and addition with numbers 20-99. C and E practiced  violin. C did copy work. We read poetry by Walter de la Mare and Tennyson.