MT: Prayers and Golden Bible
chores: laundry H, vacuum Ar., sweep C. , Aa???
Ar: Algebra
Latin (oral and review plus some new stuff)
Lots and lots of science studying then we did the test orally- 18 out of 21!!
Read Herodotus (wrong chapters first-ouch- than the right ones) and Moby Dick
H: Algebra
Latin- ditto what Ar. did
Diagramming- first stanza of the Highwayman
Read 45 minutes of the Two Towers
Painted
C: Math
Entire week of Latin
Lots of Painting
Read comics and The Trumpet of the Swan
Aa: Math sheet
Read some poems
Lots of Lego
Traced the capitals in Italics B
Practiced his violin
During Lunch: Macbeth
After Lunch: (to three youngers)
The Story of the World 1- 1 chapter
Some poetry
Worked on the Ode to Mr. Toad with two little boys
Read many Greek Myths from the D"Aulaire book
The Childrens Homer
More painting....
Then off to the park, made dinner with Hannah, and games to end it all! Tired just thinking of it!! Did I mention that I woke up at 6 (it is now 1 am nearly, so time to call it a day!!)
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Last spring's read aloud list...
- Founders of Russian Monasticism- Mom to all
- The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe- Papa to boys (March)
- The Magician's Nephew- Papa to boys (March)
- The Story of Mankind- mom to olders
- The Princess and the Goblin- mom to all
- Underground to Canada- finished.
- Secret of the Andes-not a go..again (third time trying)
- Charlotte's Web- Mom to Aaron...finished
- Byzantium- Matt to Ariel
- Sense and Sensability- Mom and Hannah
- Asterix, Asterix and Asterix!! Everyone loves Asterix!
- Winnie the Pooh- myself to little boys
- Harry Potter 3- Papa to little boys. Temporarily on hold.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Thursday and Friday (November 13-14th)
Thursday
Homeschool Swimming Lessons
Came home and ate lunch while I read SOTW 2 (last chapter) and As Rich as Croesus.
Then we had friends over for the afternoon to play.
Ballet, Bible Study, etc. and bed.....
Friday
Slow morning after yesterdays busy day! But so nice to be inside with the wind howling outside. C. and Aa. ate breakfast and went outside to play in the snow as I prayed which was so nice.
All:
Prayers and today's Gospel reading
Poem recitations for all
Read The Practical Geologist to all re. Plate Tectonics
Read a page of One Drop of Water (what a neat book)
Ar:
Algebra- Lesson 2 Review (going very well)
EGrammer Plus- next page
Read: The Age of Fable
The Story of Art
Cleaned Room and changed sheets
Still need the whistle and Latin!
H:
Algebra- Rest of Set 2 (She is loving the graphing)
Spelling
Read: The Turning
Cleaned Room and changed sheets
A few scales on the piano
Latin: new vocab. review, chants of flumen etc., oral translation lesson
C:
Math- out loud (too busy building Bionacles to stop!)
Writing- Italics
Traced and labeled a bunch of rocks from the rock book
Chores and Violin still to come....(as well as the Hobbit on his own reading time)
Aa:
Designed some really cool Bionacles
Life!
I will read to them over lunch from East of the Sun and West of the Moon. H. and I are going to have a read of the Borrowed House this afternoon- this is an awesome and gripping book. We are almost halfway done in two reads (and I have the perk of owning it so I can flatten the spine (don't tell my husband- it would be sacrilige in his books!) and knit at the same time.)
Knitting group on here tonight and then preparing for Aa.s birthday. Does anyone know how to create Popeye with icing??
So, for the sake of my brain....
chores for little boys
instrument practice
quiet reading for little boys
Latin for Ar. (after lunch when the little boys are cleaning their room) with me
read aloud with H. when the others are in quiet time
That seems to wind up a nice serendipitous day here (although on paper or screen it doesn't look quite as mellow as it has been to live first hand.)
.
Thoughts brewing in my head from this post: Too Little, Too Much. My initial thoughts love the idea of lots of good living books and not much of the assigned types of writing- hey, I like that. It's what happens very naturally around here. It's another reason to leave the heaps of educational baggage at the door!
Homeschool Swimming Lessons
Came home and ate lunch while I read SOTW 2 (last chapter) and As Rich as Croesus.
Then we had friends over for the afternoon to play.
Ballet, Bible Study, etc. and bed.....
Friday
Slow morning after yesterdays busy day! But so nice to be inside with the wind howling outside. C. and Aa. ate breakfast and went outside to play in the snow as I prayed which was so nice.
All:
Prayers and today's Gospel reading
Poem recitations for all
Read The Practical Geologist to all re. Plate Tectonics
Read a page of One Drop of Water (what a neat book)
Ar:
Algebra- Lesson 2 Review (going very well)
EGrammer Plus- next page
Read: The Age of Fable
The Story of Art
Cleaned Room and changed sheets
Still need the whistle and Latin!
H:
Algebra- Rest of Set 2 (She is loving the graphing)
Spelling
Read: The Turning
Cleaned Room and changed sheets
A few scales on the piano
Latin: new vocab. review, chants of flumen etc., oral translation lesson
C:
Math- out loud (too busy building Bionacles to stop!)
Writing- Italics
Traced and labeled a bunch of rocks from the rock book
Chores and Violin still to come....(as well as the Hobbit on his own reading time)
Aa:
Designed some really cool Bionacles
Life!
I will read to them over lunch from East of the Sun and West of the Moon. H. and I are going to have a read of the Borrowed House this afternoon- this is an awesome and gripping book. We are almost halfway done in two reads (and I have the perk of owning it so I can flatten the spine (don't tell my husband- it would be sacrilige in his books!) and knit at the same time.)
Knitting group on here tonight and then preparing for Aa.s birthday. Does anyone know how to create Popeye with icing??
So, for the sake of my brain....
chores for little boys
instrument practice
quiet reading for little boys
Latin for Ar. (after lunch when the little boys are cleaning their room) with me
read aloud with H. when the others are in quiet time
That seems to wind up a nice serendipitous day here (although on paper or screen it doesn't look quite as mellow as it has been to live first hand.)
.
Thoughts brewing in my head from this post: Too Little, Too Much. My initial thoughts love the idea of lots of good living books and not much of the assigned types of writing- hey, I like that. It's what happens very naturally around here. It's another reason to leave the heaps of educational baggage at the door!
Friday, November 7, 2008
Today- November 8th 2008
After a couple week wonderful break with the grandparents!!
An early start (yeah for the winter time change.)
All:
Prayers and Gospel
SOTW 3- Shakepeare
The Taming of the Shrew (from Lamb's)
The Wheel on the School
East of the Sun and West of the Moon (after lunch)
Ariel
Algebra- Set2
Writing- New exercise with thesaurus
Reading- Age of Fable, Story of Art, various other reading
Music- Whistle
Hannah
Algebra- new lesson and set 1
Writing- ditto what Ar. did
Reading- the Turning
Baked cookies for a dear friend who lost her dad this morning.
Lots of knitting of mittens.
Caleb
Math U See- next page
Math It- double it and times it
Reading- The Hobbit and Mad Libs
Lots of lego, creative play with Aaron and snow play
Aaron
Math with mom!
Reading lesson- my creation
Italics book A
Read- the Foot Book
Lots and lots of great outdoor time, first thing after breakfast and again after quiet time. Quiet time was great today and the early morning and hence early start was heavenly!
An early start (yeah for the winter time change.)
All:
Prayers and Gospel
SOTW 3- Shakepeare
The Taming of the Shrew (from Lamb's)
The Wheel on the School
East of the Sun and West of the Moon (after lunch)
Ariel
Algebra- Set2
Writing- New exercise with thesaurus
Reading- Age of Fable, Story of Art, various other reading
Music- Whistle
Hannah
Algebra- new lesson and set 1
Writing- ditto what Ar. did
Reading- the Turning
Baked cookies for a dear friend who lost her dad this morning.
Lots of knitting of mittens.
Caleb
Math U See- next page
Math It- double it and times it
Reading- The Hobbit and Mad Libs
Lots of lego, creative play with Aaron and snow play
Aaron
Math with mom!
Reading lesson- my creation
Italics book A
Read- the Foot Book
Lots and lots of great outdoor time, first thing after breakfast and again after quiet time. Quiet time was great today and the early morning and hence early start was heavenly!
Friday, October 10, 2008
Wednesday and Thursday (Oct. 8-9)
Wednesday
Today was going to be a day out this afternoon so I sort of planned accordingly (HA!)
I think in the morning the children all covered their Math and reading. The older two worked on their Latin (I made them some worksheets from Henly- easier for them to be self motivated then) and H. did some copywork from the Lady of Shallot.
The middle two went to knitting class then off to the optomotrist and violin. A. stayed at home and read the Age of Fable and pulled off a great narration on the computer! Much LOTR video game for him at this point.
Thursday:
Swimming in the am then friends over in the pm. A. still did math later around dinner time and the three oldest read LOTS today.
Friday:
Was going to be another friend day but friends were ill so H. just went to a friends. She did copywork and reading first, as well as cleaned her room.
A. cleaned his room and vacuumed, did a heap of math, and is copying out his current poem 'If' by Kipling. He is still going to do some reading for me today.
C. did some Math, reading, and is going to copy our his poem on the computer as soon as I vamoos from here. He also read me a whole Norse Myth- that kid is a great reader!
A. did some reading and I read him some Frog and Toad up in his room.
C and A and I made some killer double chocolate cookies and I baked cinnamon buns and bread!! We are all WIRED!!
Today was going to be a day out this afternoon so I sort of planned accordingly (HA!)
I think in the morning the children all covered their Math and reading. The older two worked on their Latin (I made them some worksheets from Henly- easier for them to be self motivated then) and H. did some copywork from the Lady of Shallot.
The middle two went to knitting class then off to the optomotrist and violin. A. stayed at home and read the Age of Fable and pulled off a great narration on the computer! Much LOTR video game for him at this point.
Thursday:
Swimming in the am then friends over in the pm. A. still did math later around dinner time and the three oldest read LOTS today.
Friday:
Was going to be another friend day but friends were ill so H. just went to a friends. She did copywork and reading first, as well as cleaned her room.
A. cleaned his room and vacuumed, did a heap of math, and is copying out his current poem 'If' by Kipling. He is still going to do some reading for me today.
C. did some Math, reading, and is going to copy our his poem on the computer as soon as I vamoos from here. He also read me a whole Norse Myth- that kid is a great reader!
A. did some reading and I read him some Frog and Toad up in his room.
C and A and I made some killer double chocolate cookies and I baked cinnamon buns and bread!! We are all WIRED!!
Language (Grammar) and Writing Plan
Love how Valerie has organised a multi-level plan here....
I would follow this, using Warriner's for some help in the teaching of the paragraphs and sentences department, and using my EGPlus for some grammar practical stuff for Ar.
I would follow this, using Warriner's for some help in the teaching of the paragraphs and sentences department, and using my EGPlus for some grammar practical stuff for Ar.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Our Books and such at the moment...
Poetry: Emily Dickinson and each a poem to memorise
Shakespeare: the Tempest
Art: Millet
Nature Study/ Art: Fabre's Insects (Eomar), Geology (All)
Literature: Taran Wanderer
Winnie the Pooh
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
History Read aloud: I, Juan de Pareja
Michaelangelo (Stanley)
Shakespeare: the Tempest
Art: Millet
Nature Study/ Art: Fabre's Insects (Eomar), Geology (All)
Literature: Taran Wanderer
Winnie the Pooh
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
History Read aloud: I, Juan de Pareja
Michaelangelo (Stanley)
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