Children of The Church: Wynken, Blynken and Nod

This past week our Memoria Press Enrichment book was Wynken, Blynken and Nod by Eugene Field's. We had surprisingly never read this poem with our children so it was really great to read it and talk about all of the metaphors in the poetry. We also used this week to talk about all things "Night time". We talked about sleep, and our health in relationship to sleep with the Cat In The Hat Learning Library "Oh The Things You Can Do That Are Good For You!" We learned about nocturnal animals and read the fun book "Where Are the Night Animals".

We also studied the painting Starry Night Over Rhone by Vincent van Gogh. We found the Big Dipper in the painting and talked about the constellations that we see in the night sky. We also studied the song Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven. I started playing the song through our Spotify playlist and immediately our 3 year old proudly exclaimed "It's BEETHOVEN"! Moonlight Sonata is one of my husbands favorite songs to play on the piano so it is a family song to our children and it was fun for them to learn about the background of the song a little more.