E, Glorious E

We FINALLY started on letter E today. She actually wrote a letter E, and I plan to scan into the computer and post it on the slideshow. Someday. Soon.

She's also steadily improving her narration skills. We do this more as practice for the future, as narration features prominently in both Charlotte Mason and AWTM. Today's story was approximately 1.5 pages, and I stopped in the middle to ask what she remembered so far. This worked well. She was able to tell me 4 events from the story. Of course, I'm prompting more than I should be, but I'll think about that tomorrow...

We read Hop on Pop again; this time listening for the short sound that E makes. She is now following the words in her stories with her finger and will sometimes point to each word as she is saying it. This is of course due to the frequency that she hears these stories, but I like to think the connection is being made.

Today's adventure consisted of a trip to our closest state park and the nature circle event. Today's topic was otters. DD loves the teacher and sits as close as possible during storytime. We heard two stories today: one factual and scientific, one fictional. Then, she made a really cool craft that must be seen to be believed (or described, at least). I'll post it to the slideshow as well.

We spent the rest of the morning exploring the park. They have a pirate ship park for the kids; then we went down to the lake to throw rocks in the water (I'm sure this is educational, but I haven't figured out just how) and throw goldfish to a scary goose. We had lunch on the dock and watched a heron catch his lunch. We walked a few hundred yards down a trail and saw a deer calmly eating whatever it is that a deer eats. I'll have to look that up. Or, some superintelligent reader could post the answer in a comment and win my undying gratitude, dude.

It was a lovely, perfect morning. Then we came home and played more (you guessed it) Cinderella. This time, I had to play the recorder so she could dance at the ball. It sounded alot like the scary goose.