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!
Friday, November 14, 2008
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)
History Plans
Right now we are at the Rennaisance. We will continue to do this together and add in some great picture books. I will also tie in some Canadian History and the Little History of the World for the older two.
Eventually (later this year or next) we will move onto the Modern Era where we will branch of out of our 'group'. Ar will read from Sonlight 7 and 300 (adding in necessary Canadian History), and we will do some read alouds together and Ar. will listen to SOTW CDs and the Little History of the World and narrate etc. Small ones at this point??
Edited to add: I like how Valerie uses topic weeks (such as how Tapestry of Grace does it) to organise her studies. This would be helpful for us, but we would definitely not stick all that info into a week (it would just be a good way for my mind to look at it- a skeletal plan of sorts.)
Eventually (later this year or next) we will move onto the Modern Era where we will branch of out of our 'group'. Ar will read from Sonlight 7 and 300 (adding in necessary Canadian History), and we will do some read alouds together and Ar. will listen to SOTW CDs and the Little History of the World and narrate etc. Small ones at this point??
Edited to add: I like how Valerie uses topic weeks (such as how Tapestry of Grace does it) to organise her studies. This would be helpful for us, but we would definitely not stick all that info into a week (it would just be a good way for my mind to look at it- a skeletal plan of sorts.)
Tuesday October 7th, 2008
Chores:
Ariel-swept main floor and garbages
Hannah-laundry
Aaron-sink
Caleb-white floors
Morning Time
Prayer- the Trisagion Prayers
Each child chose a poem and we read them out: Hannah- the Lady of Shallot (again!)
Ariel (can't remember), Caleb- Cornish Magic, Aaron- The Rain
Geography- we went over countries vs. cities, Canadian provinces and capitals then Caleb moved onto Geosafari. The older two and I reviewed continents and major bodies of water.
New Art Print- Millet (the Haystacks). We just discussed it today.
Geology- online (went well!). Interactive rock cycle and description of metamorphic rocks.
Bible- continuing on in Genesis...
Pippin
-Alphaphonics
-poem
-read some Calvin and Hobbes buddy reading
Merry
-violin right after breakfast (up to 15 minutes on the new big violin!)
-Math lesson 14F Gamma
-ETC page
-English from the Roots up- 5 cards and he made his own
Arwen
-read the Turning (her assigned reading) in bed
-Algebra lesson 6 finished (only one wrong!)
-Latin- finished ex. 47
Eomer
-read Journey to the Centre of the Earth (finished)
Story of Art
-Latin- finished ex. 47
-writing- continued on LOTR retelling
At this point we still need to do spelling with two olders, math with Eo., writing with Ar., and M. needs to do his reading.
Lunch: cheese melts and apples
Dinner: roast potatoes and quiche and coleslaw
Tonight: ballet and whistle
Ariel-swept main floor and garbages
Hannah-laundry
Aaron-sink
Caleb-white floors
Morning Time
Prayer- the Trisagion Prayers
Each child chose a poem and we read them out: Hannah- the Lady of Shallot (again!)
Ariel (can't remember), Caleb- Cornish Magic, Aaron- The Rain
Geography- we went over countries vs. cities, Canadian provinces and capitals then Caleb moved onto Geosafari. The older two and I reviewed continents and major bodies of water.
New Art Print- Millet (the Haystacks). We just discussed it today.
Geology- online (went well!). Interactive rock cycle and description of metamorphic rocks.
Bible- continuing on in Genesis...
Pippin
-Alphaphonics
-poem
-read some Calvin and Hobbes buddy reading
Merry
-violin right after breakfast (up to 15 minutes on the new big violin!)
-Math lesson 14F Gamma
-ETC page
-English from the Roots up- 5 cards and he made his own
Arwen
-read the Turning (her assigned reading) in bed
-Algebra lesson 6 finished (only one wrong!)
-Latin- finished ex. 47
Eomer
-read Journey to the Centre of the Earth (finished)
Story of Art
-Latin- finished ex. 47
-writing- continued on LOTR retelling
At this point we still need to do spelling with two olders, math with Eo., writing with Ar., and M. needs to do his reading.
Lunch: cheese melts and apples
Dinner: roast potatoes and quiche and coleslaw
Tonight: ballet and whistle
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
