Nerd that I am, I am having so much fun using our white board.
Each morning I change the date. When we do our school work, I check off the boxes. I write down the saint of the day and I draw a little picture to help the kids remember (e.g., chains for St. Peter in chains, and the pontifical chair in which Pope St. Stephen was martyred).
John's reading lessons are going well. The regularity of them has him learning how to sit still better. He just experienced a leap in ability to sound out words more quickly (sounding it out just once or twice before he "gets" it). Also, I'm noticing that he's starting to sound out words in his head (silently), which is really neat.
Today I could tell he was being distracted by words on the page of the book, so I experimented with writing his three-sentence story on the white board--in my own handwriting, one sentence at a time. He did so much better! He read the sentences very quickly. I don't know if that was a result of the novelty of it, but I will continue the experiment to see.
Then our "sounds of the day" to write were 'u' and 'f' (John writing in red).
Are you following the liturgical calendar for the saint of the day or using some other resource?
ReplyDeleteSarah: I'm mainly using Butler's Lives of the Saints (which I assume is based on the old calendar). I have a wall calendar that lists the saints of the day from all three sources: old calendar, new calendar, and historical. We have not yet decided what to do when old and new calendars conflict, particularly for the major feast days (when to celebrate?).
ReplyDeleteWe run into the same problems. Especially when wanting to celebrate Patron saints. Our little Monica's feast has been moved to be after St. Augustine's, but we celebrate it on the day of the old calendar. It really confuses people.
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ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHA that cracks me up!!
Katherine, I like the TAN calendars - they have NO, trad and historical saint days listed. "Mary and the Saints" is the one I have now.
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