We started Morning Liturgy around 7:15. E walked out the door part way through, so win on beginning well.
We sang our church hymn for the month, God is Our Refuge and Our Strength, after reading through the poetry of it for a week. This year our church gave out a small pamphlet of each hymn for the month until next July. Glory be. We have collected many and tucked them everywhere.
We read Proverbs 2:1-9 as our school verse followed by our school song Who Would True Valor See by John Bunyan.
We champed through the Heidelberg 1. Then my children charged out of doors down the trail to see dad off and get extra kisses. It is Tradition.
After looping all the children back together, we had to practice saying silly words and Mother Goose rhymes in unison before trying for the Lord’s Prayer and Bible Recitation. I also want to have either the Ambleside hymn of the month here or another collection of common hymns we sing in church. Probably the latter. We sing between 7 and 10 hymns and Psalms during a service. It is hard for a child to follow along if they don’t have the music, but if they do, it almost carries them.
We did family prayer after the Lord’s Prayer, practiced one verse recitation with everyone together, and then read out the second question of the Heidelburg Chatechism.
Then we closed that section with the Apostle’s Creed which the children knew from church. Again, the hardest part is unison.
We read Proverbs 28 and I told a fable based off of v1 with my oldest following suit.
Then we listened to Aikendrum for Folk Music and read Autumn Fires by Robert Louis Stevenson and Eternity by William Blake. At the very end we sang Psalm 137, our current church Doxology, and G(8) gave the canon part his best shot. End of the real liturgy section.
G read D(5) Only One Woof by James Herriot and I began the process of doing a narration with D - he can find one part and work backwards, but we need to do that and then do it a second time forwards.
I sent kids round on chores and gave D a copy work lesson.
Then we took the puppy and all five kids out for a nature walk:
Waist high tansy and chickory all down the street with low lying morning glory and spindly puple things. Apple and maple trees all tangled in old growth line our street. We visited the Post Office where they took down five maples over the weekend, so we looked at them and talked about some reasons to take down big trees. We finished off our walk along the creek and back around only to find that we had taken one of our cats with us. She yowls at us for leaving the house, especially when I walk somewhere. Once she followed me half a mile to a farmer’s market. I had to turn around and take her home, so she wouldn’t hurt herself.
So on the return we added a cat to the puppy/ child line.
Back home we settled the puppy and broke out the history. This is formally morning time. I took a long narration from G covering the last three kings (all Edwards) in review. He requests a map of Bannockburn. Then we read Sluys and started in on the Hundred Years War. We did a narration.
There were math block castles, nature drawing, and tortilla making. Broke for Narnia Lunch (ch11/12 of TLTWTW, read the next chapter of Robin Hood, and now the kids are listening to a chunk of Peter Pan.
One math session left for the day.
Further Up and Further In
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