Memory Work- Where we are

Boo has learned the following:

All memory work up to lesson 65, in First Language Lessons, minus one poem because I wanted to do a different version.

O Sacrament Most Holy

Act of Faith

The Pledge of Allegiance

Act of Hope

Eternal Rest
O Come O Come Emmanuel

Up and coming: We'll be learning the Act of Charity (and other basic prayers to prepare for 1st Holy Communion), An Advent/Christmas poem, and a few other little moral, Mother-Goose type rhymes. We will also be learning more of the Stabat Mater during Lent-- I think this is turning into a tradition.

Here is the Advent Poem, with special thanks to MO, for sending it to me.

Like foolish folk of old I would not be,
Who had no room that night for
Him and thee.
See, Mother Mary, here within my heart
I've made a little
shrine for Him apart;
Swept it of sin, and cleansed it with all care;
Warmed it with love and scented it with prayer.
So, Mother, when the
Christmas anthems start,
Please let me hold your baby--in my heart.

Sr. Maryanna, O.P.

Phonecian Bread from STOW

We all enjoyed making the Phonecian (pita) bread in the Story of the World Activity Book.

Recently, Boo built a seige tower for the chapter on the Assyrians. This led to both Meenie and Boo looking up seige towers on the internet with their father. Afterwards, Meenie proceeded into the kitchen to give me an oral report about seige towers and how they work, while I was baking cookies. It was from the perspective of a three year old, so it went like this:

Siege towers, yeah, um the bad guys had a seige tower and then they tried to
get over the wall. The other guys were shooting arrows. The they had a door
knocker to knock down the wall. Yeah, they were bad.