http://chasingcheerios.blogspot.com/2010/12/meet-ingalls-family.html
Thought the above was adorable.
It snowed overnight - not good sticking snow but rather slushy and sleet. However, it was a whiteout this morning and still snowing. We had a lovely walk around the harbour this afternoon. Lily got very muddy, Springy got very cold but we made it back inside after the fresh air, the slippy slush and seeing the Brent geese, the lapwings and the oyster catchers.
Springy has also been writing a story about a goose landing in our garden (based on a chapter from Schoolroom in the Parlour by Rebecca Caudhill about the Fairchild family). She also did Fl words in her Main Lesson Book. She's been reading for a good few years and although this kind of simple spelling would have normally been done last year (in the Waldorf or Enki Curriculum), we've focused elsewhere. We're going to do a whole load of words and finish off this MLB. I tell her the start of the word, she has to come up with words and I join in too. We compile a list of words in her regular text book - I write them out, she then copies them and then she transfers them all to her MLB in her best writing and for homonyms or synonyms she does a little illustration.
We're going to do Ch, Tr, and St words tomorrow.
Springy also had a playdate with a friend this morning when Scouts was cancelled. They built a magnificent snowman.
Several of our relatives have received Springy's poetry book which we published through Lulu. It has her poems and photographs in. It's such a nice way of gifting a number of people with something personal.
„Ach, lieber Löwe lass’ mich aus!
Bist du in Not, so helf’ ich dir.“
„Du kleines Mäuschen mir?
Der Löwe hilft sich selbst allein.
Spring kleine Maus, magst frei nun sein.“
Doch bald darauf der Löwe fällt
In Netze, die der Jäger stellt.
Wie er sich reckt und streckt und beißt,
das starke Netz er nicht zerreißt.
Er brüllt so laut er brüllen kann,
da kommt die kleine Maus heran.
Mit scharfem Zahne unverzagt
Das kleine Mäuschen nagt und nagt,
und Masch’ für Masch’ das Netz zerfällt,
bis es den Löwen nicht mehr hält.
Der große Löw’ ist wieder frei!
Verachte keins so klein es sei.
Here is the translation:
The Lion and the Mouse
The lion caught the little mouse:
"Oh, dear lion Let me go!
If ever you are in need I will help you in return. "
"You little mouse help me?
The lion helps itself alone. Ha.
Off you go little mouse - be free now. "
But soon after, the lion was caught
In nets, which the hunters had set.
He stretches and stretches and bites,
but the strong net he does not tear.
He bellows and roars loud as he can,
and the little mouse passes nearby.
With undaunted sharp teeth
The little mice nibbling and gnawing,
breaks and tears the net,
Until the lion breaks out.
Lion is the great free beast again!
Helped by one so small.
"Oh, dear lion Let me go!
If ever you are in need I will help you in return. "
"You little mouse help me?
The lion helps itself alone. Ha.
Off you go little mouse - be free now. "
But soon after, the lion was caught
In nets, which the hunters had set.
He stretches and stretches and bites,
but the strong net he does not tear.
He bellows and roars loud as he can,
and the little mouse passes nearby.
With undaunted sharp teeth
The little mice nibbling and gnawing,
breaks and tears the net,
Until the lion breaks out.
Lion is the great free beast again!
Helped by one so small.