Both Charlotte Mason and The Well-Trained Mind advocate memory work and we try to include some most days. Mostly we're happy still working through Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses and Kangaroo and Kookaburra have memorised four poems from there, Kookaburra's best is 'The Wind'. They love to perform crazy actions to that particular poem but for the recording I asked them to be sedate. Kookaburra was really disappointed by that and even just a little sulky about it - he loves being crazy!!!! We're also memorising a bible verse a week and they are very proud to pull that out whenever they can. Even though I can't truly say I'm a believer, I still want to raise our boys with christian morals and values which I know will go a long way to help building solid foundations in their character and for me that means most days we read the bible and we practice planting a verse in our hearts so that it can come to our aid when we need it.
When I was a kid, I was petrified of being in front of my class and speaking and that still carries over to being an adult. I loathe this trait and I'm trying to do my best to help our boys be comfortable public speakers. Last year we attended our local Eisteddfod and we left inspired and full of admiration for the kids and adults that could bring themselves to be the center of attention and flourish. Kookaburra was definitely interested in giving it a go this year so I'm helping him learn a monologue which is called 'The Kid' and it's great to hear him recite it and also hear Kangaroo quietly chiming in in the background. I don't know if he'll be allowed to perform this but it's entertaining for us as a family and great memory work for both our boys.
and if I could sing, I would Looove to do this.....
Kristin Chenoweth is Awesome!!!!
Thanks girls for yesterdays comments :) I remember now that the other thing I really enjoyed about blogging were the comments left by you. It was so supportive of you to be instantly there for me when I was feeling so blue. Thankyou :) And I also enjoy reading your blogs but haven't commented because I wasn't blogging. That can now change. It's nice to be back.
