Copywork Humor

Yesterday, Grace finished reading William Blake's 40 poems for her poem a day assigned reading. We use the poems also for her copywork, and she'll usually pull 2 lines from her poem that day and write them out in her notebook. Looking for a "tweener" before we start our next poet, I noticed that she'll be having to recite all of Psalm 23 for AWANA in a couple of weeks. So we settled on using the Psalm for her next copywork assignments to help with the memorization.

Today's editorial cartoon for Psalm 23:1 just tickled me:


Grace is a talented illustrator, who has a knack for putting thoughts down through her drawings. I have really taken a delight in using the notebooks that have room to color above the lined paper for her copywork. More often than not, she'll create a fitting drawing for her poem excerpt, and her drawing becomes a narration back to me of the poem with her interpretation. It is a unique way of sneaking in a required narration, without her knowing she ever did any hard work.