Adventures in Narnia

Listened to the first chapter in the van yesterday - and loved it, thank you so much Liz

Vocab words - there were lots more than this listed in the study guide but I picked one for each child to look up the meaning of and listen out for during the chapter. Anna had ‘wheedle’, Abbie had ‘jargon’, and Josiah had ‘dappled’.

Was planning to look at horses as suggested by the study guide, but never quite got round to it. Links are here just in case we do, one day. I had prepared for it, see!
Body parts of a horse
Kids’ horsemanship site with horse body parts listed, as well as saddle/bridle labelled pictures.

We picked up on the idea of having heard the same things day and night for years meaning that you don’t hear them any more, and stopped and listened in our house. Nothing too exciting to hear from here though, birds, aeroplanes at certain points, and the hum of cars on the motorway!

I would like to try and get through each of the remaining five books in a month, as near as possible! Given that it’s already nearly the middle of January, we’d better get a shift on!

So:
The Horse and His Boy by the time we go to Melrose (mid Feb)
Prince Caspian by the end of March
Voyage of the Dawn Treader by May
The Silver Chair by Joe’s birthday (mid June)
The Last Battle by the beginning of August.

My good friend Liz gave us a stunning Christmas present, knowing how hard I find it to read out loud - she read the Horse and His Boy, and recorded it onto CD for us. I’m really looking forward to listening to it! Planning to listen to the first chapter over lunch today.

Can’t quite believe I have abandoned this blog quite as much as I have!

Anyway, wrapping up The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe:
I know that at least the girls have listened to the audiobook a couple more times. Josiah’s watched the animated film a few more times too - so they are all very familiar with the story. Plus I’ve heard them shouting out that they’ve heard vocab words from some of the chapters so some of that must have gone in!

We made some clay statues of the figures mentioned in the Witch’s castle - didn’t ever get as far as making the castle as Christmas sort of overtook us - and the statues didn’t survive past Christmas, either!

We all saw the new film at the cinema and generally enjoyed it.

I had wanted to get the children to think about the comparisons between Aslan’s death/coming back to life and Jesus’s death/resurrection, but never quite got round to that either, and I sort of feel that the moment has passed by so for now I don’t want to make a big deal of it - perhaps it will come up in conversation another time.