I’ve found it most exciting to be spontaneous about our next FIAR book to row, to see where the weather, current events, and local activities takes us. 
Our last book was perfect timing for our blizzard-like conditions last week. For example, we’ll save Very Last First Time for the week we can visit tundra at the Rocky Mountain National Park… The Rag Coat for when we’re ready to try quilting… So up until today I hadn’t figured out our next book.
I asked Satori what she wanted to read about, and she said “a little girl who lost her parents and is an orphan”. The only orphan-related books we had on hand were Clown of God (which I want to save for the Colorado Renaissance Festival this summer) and Papa Piccolo. So Papa it is!
Papa Piccolo
Satoris cat, Soma
We read it tonight for the first time. Satori has her own cat, Soma (a Bengal cat), so we’ll take this opportunity to learn more about cats. We’ll explore Italy and Venice, really get into color this week, and learn some common italian words!
I do not think we’ll be doing a lapbook this time around, but focusing more on being more interactive and making cool stuff. I just want to really have fun this week and the last few lapbooks we did were just me cutting and pasting for the most part. We’ll make lapbooks again for sure, but just not this week.
Tonight I spent about an hour and a half making our “gameplan” to row Papa, check it out here. Everything is tentative, but I hope the time I spent tonight will make things more organized and easier this week.
Rowing Papa Piccolo – planning page
The page above will be changing as we row throughout the week, and hopefully it will be helpful for those of you who have yet to row Papa Piccolo!
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