Day: May 8, 2025

SKS: Nap Girl and Boating Party

Sara sent this painting of a girl taking a nap (the text on the back with information about the painting is too small for me to read, and I don’t want to go and find the magnifying glass). As a fan of naps, I’m all for this picture.

Then we have the well known Renoir (which I know both because it’s famous and because the explanatory information is in a readable font.)

Both postcards arrived on the same day (!). Sara reports that she found these postcards while updating her office, which made room for all the books she is going to read for Notables.

Completed: Grammar Success in 20 Minutes a Day

I’ve been brushing up my grammar skills using this skill builder book.

While they seem to think this will only take four weeks and that learning will occur quickly and easily, I took much longer than that, because I wasn’t working every day, and also because I also made a ton of flash cards to help me memorize all the grammar terms.

Unfortunately, you can see from pre- and posttest results that I improved by a little less than 3 percent. I can say though, that during the posttest I was much more familiar with the terms rather than taking a by-ear guess.

Onto my next learning journey: verb tenses.