Week 2 encompassed more than just a week. We took half the week off to get ready for our trip to Canada! We were gone for nearly two weeks and it was fabulous! Oh, I wish I had time to write everything about the trip. Let me just say that the trip was very fun, we got to see my sister and her children (after two long years!) and we experienced a lot of Geography, including some of the places we'll be talking about in Paddle! It truly was an exciting trip, but I'm glad to be back home.
Today, we began week three of term 1, year 1. I've thought that perhaps that planned interruption was not such a good idea. We've had to work back into the narrations and sitting down for copy work and everything else. We didn't even get to math today! Ahh! I've got to get that done tonight. Anyway, I'm sure that we will smooth back into the routine we had going for us and things will begin to go much better soon.
Some of my thoughts about the Charlotte Mason method have wandered everywhere from, "This is fantastic, exactly what I was thinking!" to, "Is this really getting through to him? Is he really going to learn doing it this way?" I guess that we all go through periods of time when we have highs and excitement and then, we have the lows of unsurity. In-spite of the lows, I'm going to keep trucking along. I really do enjoy the reading and the short lessons. It's been proven for so long, so I must have faith.
Today, being the start of the third week also marks the start of new picture studies, change of song in composer studies, new animal for nature studies, and a few others. It's going to be a great week, I know it!
We began looking at Monet's "Field of Poppies", we will listen to Mendelssohn's Spinning Song, and we are studying our cats for nature studies!
Until next time, my friends.
Blessings from my heart to your home!
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