Copywork selections

We're 10 weeks into our school year and it's already time for me to refill Ella's Copywork Jar.  I changed it up a bit this year- there are no longer different categories for different days of the week (Mondays-Poetry, Tuesdays-Quotes, etc); we just have several selections tossed in.  The other change is that I really aimed to make the copywork selections shorter, so that Ella will not get bogged down with a long passage (as was the case last year) and neglect neat handwriting.  Our focus is on quality, not quantity. So far I have had her print each one, but the next "batch" she will do in cursive.  She often draws a little picture to go along with it. It's been going really well!  I've listed her copywork selections below if any of you are interested in using them for your own children:

Thirty days hath September, April, June and November.

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January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.

 

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February brings the rain, thaws the frozen lake again.

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March brings breezes loud and shrill, stirs the dancing daffodil.

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April brings the primrose sweet, scatters daisies at our feet.

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May brings flocks of pretty lambs, skipping by their fleecy dams.

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June brings tulips, lilies, roses, fills the children's hands with posies.

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Hot July brings cooling showers, apricots and gillyflowers.

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August brings the sheaves of corn, then the harvest home is borne.

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Warm September brings the fruit, sportsmen then begin to shoot.

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Fresh October brings the pheasant, then to gather nuts is pleasant.

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Dull November brings the blast, then the leaves are whirling fast.

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Chill December brings the sleet, blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

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Many hands make light work.

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Practice makes perfect.

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A man is known by the company he keeps.

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A child should always say what’s true
And speak when he is spoken to

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O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!

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A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea.

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Red sky at night, sailors delight;
Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.

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Adopt the pace of nature: Her secret is patience.
    ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 


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Never let us reflect upon small annoyances, and we shall be able to 

bear great ones sweetly.
    ~Charlotte Mason

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All beautiful and noble possibilities are present in everyone.
    ~Charlotte Mason

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Kindness is to make everyday life pleasant and comfortable to others.
    ~Charlotte Mason

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A grateful heart rejoices not only in the gift but in the giver.
    ~Charlotte Mason

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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
    ~George Washington Carver

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