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Today's Lessons
Yesterday we took the day off for some major errands running. Today is back to school!
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Notes about today's lessons:
I opted to have kiddo type up her final draft of the IEW lesson of a donkey story to "kill two birds with one stone" by counting that as keyboarding.
Our poet study of Coleridge has, in all honesty, been a real drag. Neither of us like his poems. Thankfully we're nearly done with the book. I need to have DD select a new poem for memory work. She quickly memorized the helping verbs (ala Easy Grammar 5) and needs a new piece.
Botany today is just to get some things "caught up" that for one reason or another never quite got completed recently.
We've been enjoying using Happyland for our folksongs recently. I ripped the CD to her PDA so she's familiar with all of them and can sing them as desired. However for our study, we sing a song for about 6 weeks (once or twice a week) before moving to a new one.
Our daily readings of Shakespeare's The Twelfth Night have been going great. She especially gets a kick out of scenes that require us to sing or for me to have to play multiple characters (and use various voices for, mind you) or where I get stuck with a long, drawn out soliloquy --she thinks that is just hilarious!
I might have found a piano teacher for kiddo! She's been without one since we left Hawaii and has just been "keeping up with what she knows" on her own. (No, I do not play piano.) She'll do bi-weekly lessons over the summer with the lady I found as a "trial run" and if all goes well she'll upgrade to weekly lessons starting in the fall. Kiddo is very much looking forward to this, but until then, she'll just continue to practice on her own here at home.
