One hymn a week

During our morning worship time together, Caleb and I would read a Psalm and sing a song and pray. I had previously picked songs randomly from a song book for this time. But recently, I began this "one hymn a week" thing with him. On Sundays at church, the first song we sing is usually a hymn. So I decided to use that as a guide. On Monday mornings, we would look up that hymn in our hymnal and sing it for the remainder of the week. Caleb sometimes joins in at the chorus, or he would just pick an instrument from his "instrument basket" and play along. This is a good way for him to be familiarized with hymns.

This past Sunday we sang "Angels we have heard on high" at church and so this is our hymn for the week. Gloria in excelsis Deo!

From phonics to folklores

Caleb loves to play with Andy's older brother Chris who lives quite close to us. Recently Chris has started playing little "magic" games/tricks with him and he is fascinated by them.

This morning, as we were doing our phonic lesson on words that end with the two-consonant blend lf, we came across the word "elf" and Caleb asked me what an elf was. I didn't know the exact definition of it and so I said, "It is a little magical being." He asked me, "What's a being?" I said, "It is a magical person." He responded, "You mean like Uncle Chris?" "Well, not quite..." which then diverted me into this little research on elves and folklores. Perhaps this is the fun part of homeschooling?!