Well, folks. We officially made it through our first day of our first offical CM / AO year 1.
Notes:
my schedule is out the window now! It was a great ideal, but goodness, did God ever show me that I have no say in how our days go! We did fine though. I just need to give more time to things like meals and clean up. And I need to do some of the reading while Peter Rabbit is taking his nap.
I do fear that I pushed too hard on the first literature reading and naration. It was "A Lesson of Faith" from PARABLES OF NATURE. It was only 7 pages, but how could I expect him to narrate 7 pages!? He did fine for that nevertheless. I am proud of him and have decided that I need to divide up the readings quite a bit more, but now I'm wondering how I'll fit it all in.
Today, we also did nature study. We are doing mammals and the goat was our first subject. We went to a local farm and watched the goats for probably 15-20 minutes. The children loved it so much! We really did have a good time. One thing that Benjamin said he learned today is that he thought nature was only plants and insects, but it's not, it's animals too! Oh, there is a world of knowledge awaiting him! I'm so excited for him. Little Flopsy just soaked it all in and loved the animals. We also took some time to look at the other animals there and went to pick some black berries. It was a lovely day.
But I've got to slow my horses down. I have this perfect picture in my head and I need to do some serious erasing! Well, school is over for today and tomorrow is day two, a fresh new day with a clean slate.
Thank you, Father, for the graces of this day.
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