Bible
Geography: It Happened in America (Idaho)
Music: Mozart biography
Language Arts: LLATL, Kezzi did a lesson in Our Mother Tongue
History: the boys and I read ch. 10 in SOTW, Hope and I listened to one of Rushdoony's taped lectures, Kezzi read her history book
Historical Fiction: 3 ch. of Hittite Warrior
Reading: boys still working on Mark Twain/The Missing Video, Hope read Wild Animals At Home, Kezzi read Elements of Style
Annalise was sick - again...we laid on the hammock to try to soak up the nice weather before the rain sets in tomorrow. I read her a couple of chapters of Mr. Popper's Penguins. Then she heard a bird song that she thought sounded like "tink-er'-toy, tink-er'-toy" and asked me what it was. I dragged my laptop outside and though I've searched high and low on different bird sound sites, I can not find what makes that sound. As usual, she started feeling well in the evening and brought me the Beginner's Bible to read aloud to me.
Mr.Potts read from The Great Brain to the boys before bed again.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Tuesday, Februrary 27, 2007
*Kezzi and Pris still recovering
Bible - everyone on own
Read Aloud: Alice in Wonderland, 2 ch.
Math: regular
Science/Writing/Art: finished chapter 3 in Swimming Creatures with boys, they made a page for their science notebooks using a drawing book on Sea Creatures, Annalise also drew a seal using a Draw Write Now book; Hope read her Biology book and worked in her LLATL book
Reading: boys continue with books, Hope reads Fallacy Detective
Historical Fiction: Hittite Warrior- 3 ch.
Annalise also worked on copywork and poem memorization. We looked at the first picture in our Come Look With Me (Animals in Art) book, and she did a page in her Math U See Alpha book.
This evening my brother and his family came to my sister's house, where we all hung out together. He played his banjo and his guitar for us and then the kids sang some songs for him. We had a fun evening of music and fellowship.
Bible - everyone on own
Read Aloud: Alice in Wonderland, 2 ch.
Math: regular
Science/Writing/Art: finished chapter 3 in Swimming Creatures with boys, they made a page for their science notebooks using a drawing book on Sea Creatures, Annalise also drew a seal using a Draw Write Now book; Hope read her Biology book and worked in her LLATL book
Reading: boys continue with books, Hope reads Fallacy Detective
Historical Fiction: Hittite Warrior- 3 ch.
Annalise also worked on copywork and poem memorization. We looked at the first picture in our Come Look With Me (Animals in Art) book, and she did a page in her Math U See Alpha book.
This evening my brother and his family came to my sister's house, where we all hung out together. He played his banjo and his guitar for us and then the kids sang some songs for him. We had a fun evening of music and fellowship.
Monday, February 26, 2007
Monday, Februrary 26, 2007
*Kezzi and Pris are sick so they are just lying around today
Bible
Geography: It Happened in America - chapter on Hawaii, also we looked at the Hawaii pages in Atlas of America
Math - regular
Typing - both boys practiced their lessons
History - I bought each of the boys their own copy of SOTW volume 1 and we sat together today and read ch. 9 reading group style, each one taking turns reading aloud. I was surprised that the boys were so cooperative about it, even excited somewhat. Hope read another chapter in the Rushdoony book and now she is ready to listen to the first lecture.
Language Arts - Hope and the boys continued with LLATL. I am really surprised at how good this is going. No complaints or moans. (Well, Hope never complains.) The boys came cheerfully to their lessons.
Historical Fiction: I read 3 ch. aloud from Hittite Warrior
Art: The boys and Annalise more creating clay figures with the polymer clay
Reading: the boys read from their books, Hope read from Elements of Style and Ourselves
Annalise didn't want to "do school" today. At six years old, she can still opt out, especially since she is already reading well, able to do her math work easily and gets read to all of the time. Instead today, she went next door to visit Grandma and Grandpa, who just returned from a two-week long trip and then played outside with her cousins. She did end up reading to me while waiting for dinner to come out of the oven.
Dad read aloud The Great Brain to the boys before bed.
The sick girls, Hope and I watched Children of Heaven this afternoon. And then to console the sick again late that night, Napoleon Dynamite was played while the girls laid around recovering. It seems like Napoleon would be the last thing you would like to watch when you are already sick.
Bible
Geography: It Happened in America - chapter on Hawaii, also we looked at the Hawaii pages in Atlas of America
Math - regular
Typing - both boys practiced their lessons
History - I bought each of the boys their own copy of SOTW volume 1 and we sat together today and read ch. 9 reading group style, each one taking turns reading aloud. I was surprised that the boys were so cooperative about it, even excited somewhat. Hope read another chapter in the Rushdoony book and now she is ready to listen to the first lecture.
Language Arts - Hope and the boys continued with LLATL. I am really surprised at how good this is going. No complaints or moans. (Well, Hope never complains.) The boys came cheerfully to their lessons.
Historical Fiction: I read 3 ch. aloud from Hittite Warrior
Art: The boys and Annalise more creating clay figures with the polymer clay
Reading: the boys read from their books, Hope read from Elements of Style and Ourselves
Annalise didn't want to "do school" today. At six years old, she can still opt out, especially since she is already reading well, able to do her math work easily and gets read to all of the time. Instead today, she went next door to visit Grandma and Grandpa, who just returned from a two-week long trip and then played outside with her cousins. She did end up reading to me while waiting for dinner to come out of the oven.
Dad read aloud The Great Brain to the boys before bed.
The sick girls, Hope and I watched Children of Heaven this afternoon. And then to console the sick again late that night, Napoleon Dynamite was played while the girls laid around recovering. It seems like Napoleon would be the last thing you would like to watch when you are already sick.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
Bible: Listened to Hymn Fairest Lord Jesus, read a Psalm
2 ch. in Alice in Wonderland (this one is prompting lots of giggles)
Reading: Kezzi started a biography of Amy Carmichael, Hope read Daughter of the Land and the boys are still working on their books. Abel was noting the hardships of Mark Twain's early life. A good result of reading about the lives of others is sometimes realizing how good you have it...
Science/Art/Writing: Nature Journaling - we chose a tree to study through the seasons and today they went outside, sketched the bare tree, wrote down their observations and painted a twig in their journals.
Girls had dance again. The boys ran wild outside while Candace and I did some house cleaning and got the house ready for our guests Saturday night (with whom we had a blast with, btw).
2 ch. in Alice in Wonderland (this one is prompting lots of giggles)
Reading: Kezzi started a biography of Amy Carmichael, Hope read Daughter of the Land and the boys are still working on their books. Abel was noting the hardships of Mark Twain's early life. A good result of reading about the lives of others is sometimes realizing how good you have it...
Science/Art/Writing: Nature Journaling - we chose a tree to study through the seasons and today they went outside, sketched the bare tree, wrote down their observations and painted a twig in their journals.
Girls had dance again. The boys ran wild outside while Candace and I did some house cleaning and got the house ready for our guests Saturday night (with whom we had a blast with, btw).
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Bible: everyone on own
Classic Read Aloud: started Alice in Wonderland
Math: all as usual
Typing practice for boys
Science: Kezzi - Bird Biology, Hope - worked on Biology notebook page, Luke - Nature Reader #5 (ch. on blood)and narrated to me, Abel read some of ch. 1 (bones) of My Listening Ears out loud to me and I read the rest to him and he also spent some time looking at our Magic Schoolbus Explores the Senses.
Language Arts: Hope and boys -LLATL, Kezzi wrote a narration of what she learned from her Health book
Historical Fiction read aloud: Hittite Warrior
Reading - boys continued on with their books, Kezzi finished How the Heather Looks, Hope read Screwtape Letters
We spent a good part of the afternoon on various cleaning jobs, many of which were outside.
Mr. Potts and I played Whoonu with the boys in the evening. Then the boys played Name That State with Mr. Potts.
The girls went to see The Bridge to Terbithia. Priscilla came home and read to Annalise, who was so tired of being in her bed for the last two days.
Classic Read Aloud: started Alice in Wonderland
Math: all as usual
Typing practice for boys
Science: Kezzi - Bird Biology, Hope - worked on Biology notebook page, Luke - Nature Reader #5 (ch. on blood)and narrated to me, Abel read some of ch. 1 (bones) of My Listening Ears out loud to me and I read the rest to him and he also spent some time looking at our Magic Schoolbus Explores the Senses.
Language Arts: Hope and boys -LLATL, Kezzi wrote a narration of what she learned from her Health book
Historical Fiction read aloud: Hittite Warrior
Reading - boys continued on with their books, Kezzi finished How the Heather Looks, Hope read Screwtape Letters
We spent a good part of the afternoon on various cleaning jobs, many of which were outside.
Mr. Potts and I played Whoonu with the boys in the evening. Then the boys played Name That State with Mr. Potts.
The girls went to see The Bridge to Terbithia. Priscilla came home and read to Annalise, who was so tired of being in her bed for the last two days.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Bible: started Psalms today
Geography: Read a section out of It Happened in America (Georgia)
Reading: Everyone read for a while...Hope chose a nature book to read today: Wild Animals At Home and the boys continued on with their books...Kezzi finished her health book
Music: We read a couple of chapters in a biography about Mozart and listened to some of his music
Language Arts: Hope and the boys worked in the LLATL books. Hope is beginning the gray book, Luke the tan book, and Abel the purple book - all old editions. Kezzi did dictation from Spelling Wisdom.
History: Hope read a chapter out of the Rushdoony text on Ancient Egypt. Luke and Abel read chapter 8 from SOTW v.1
Annalise has a stomach bug so she was down for the morning but by afternoon was feeling a little better. She enjoyed looking at one of our bird field guides and I am amazed at how effortlessly she has learned the names of so many birds, mostly because we have an extremely active bird feeder. I read her a story from James Herriot's Treasury. We also worked on an easy poem she is supposed to memorize.
Abel spent some time working with his polymer clay.
Luke had fun looking at things under the microscope that I set up on the desk in the corner of the dining area. He was especially facinated by the slide of blood. I knew if I made this more available, it would get used more (especially by Luke).
The girls had dance this afternoon. It's almost 70 degrees outside so the boys spent the entire afternoon outdoors enjoying the weather.
Geography: Read a section out of It Happened in America (Georgia)
Reading: Everyone read for a while...Hope chose a nature book to read today: Wild Animals At Home and the boys continued on with their books...Kezzi finished her health book
Music: We read a couple of chapters in a biography about Mozart and listened to some of his music
Language Arts: Hope and the boys worked in the LLATL books. Hope is beginning the gray book, Luke the tan book, and Abel the purple book - all old editions. Kezzi did dictation from Spelling Wisdom.
History: Hope read a chapter out of the Rushdoony text on Ancient Egypt. Luke and Abel read chapter 8 from SOTW v.1
Annalise has a stomach bug so she was down for the morning but by afternoon was feeling a little better. She enjoyed looking at one of our bird field guides and I am amazed at how effortlessly she has learned the names of so many birds, mostly because we have an extremely active bird feeder. I read her a story from James Herriot's Treasury. We also worked on an easy poem she is supposed to memorize.
Abel spent some time working with his polymer clay.
Luke had fun looking at things under the microscope that I set up on the desk in the corner of the dining area. He was especially facinated by the slide of blood. I knew if I made this more available, it would get used more (especially by Luke).
The girls had dance this afternoon. It's almost 70 degrees outside so the boys spent the entire afternoon outdoors enjoying the weather.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
I'm realizing that there are quite a few things that happen throughout the week that I forget to record and the kids do things on their own and often I don't even know about it. For example, both Kezzi and Hope do a lot of extra reading and journaling and some blogging. But at least this is giving me a look at our official "school" type activities.
Also, I've been trying to find a balance between doing things together, where I mostly do the reading aloud, versus the kids doing their own reading. These last couple of weeks it's been too heavy on me reading aloud too much. By the end of the morning, I'm usually too tired to do much with Annalise and even though Priscilla is reading with her every morning, I still want to be available to do things with her too. This week we are making some adjustments and the kids are going to do more of their own reading. This will be especially good for the boys, who need a lot more practice reading their own books.
Bible - everyone read from their own Bibles today; the boys used their Rod and Staff readers and Annalise used her Beginners Bible. We are thinking of switching on and off every other day, one day reading together, the next on our own. Everyone likes both ways so we thought maybe this would give us the best of both worlds.
Read Aloud - another chapter of Swallowdale,which the boys and I are bored to death with. We are quitting it and thinking of starting Alice and Wonderland tomorrow.
Math - everyone as usual. Annalise did a page in her Miquon orange book.
Science - Hope worked on a notebook page, the boys and I read Swimming Creatures together
Writing/Grammar - Great Editing Adventure with the boys, Hope worked in Learning Language Arts Through Literature's gray book (old version) and Kezzi worked in Our Mother Tongue
Reading: Abel and Luke continued on with their books, Hope read Fallacy Detective, Kezzi- Mircrobe Hunters
Historical Fiction - Hittite Warrior, Kezzi read So Far From the Bamboo Grove again today
This evening we went to a play that our cousin's cousin wrote and starred in. The kid's cousin, Joshua was also in it. It was put on by all of the kids in our former church. It was real cute and funny. We all enjoyed ourselves.
Also, I've been trying to find a balance between doing things together, where I mostly do the reading aloud, versus the kids doing their own reading. These last couple of weeks it's been too heavy on me reading aloud too much. By the end of the morning, I'm usually too tired to do much with Annalise and even though Priscilla is reading with her every morning, I still want to be available to do things with her too. This week we are making some adjustments and the kids are going to do more of their own reading. This will be especially good for the boys, who need a lot more practice reading their own books.
Bible - everyone read from their own Bibles today; the boys used their Rod and Staff readers and Annalise used her Beginners Bible. We are thinking of switching on and off every other day, one day reading together, the next on our own. Everyone likes both ways so we thought maybe this would give us the best of both worlds.
Read Aloud - another chapter of Swallowdale,which the boys and I are bored to death with. We are quitting it and thinking of starting Alice and Wonderland tomorrow.
Math - everyone as usual. Annalise did a page in her Miquon orange book.
Science - Hope worked on a notebook page, the boys and I read Swimming Creatures together
Writing/Grammar - Great Editing Adventure with the boys, Hope worked in Learning Language Arts Through Literature's gray book (old version) and Kezzi worked in Our Mother Tongue
Reading: Abel and Luke continued on with their books, Hope read Fallacy Detective, Kezzi- Mircrobe Hunters
Historical Fiction - Hittite Warrior, Kezzi read So Far From the Bamboo Grove again today
This evening we went to a play that our cousin's cousin wrote and starred in. The kid's cousin, Joshua was also in it. It was put on by all of the kids in our former church. It was real cute and funny. We all enjoyed ourselves.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
The Weekend:
We finished The Golden Goblet.
Personal Reading: This weekend I made progress in Anne of Avonlea, read a chapter of What is a Family, and started rereading Moon Journals, which I am determined to try with the kids this spring some time. I also read about 2/3 of chapter 2 of How to Read Slowly. Driving to church yesterday and around town I was able to listen to most of tape 1 in the audio book Digging To America (recommended by Granny).
Today:
Bible - finished 2 Samuel
Poem
Read Aloud: 1 ch. of Swallowdale
Picture Study: Landscape in The Parable of the Sower by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Math: MUS for boys and Teaching Textbooks for girls
Reading: Abel - Mark Twain, Luke - The Missing Video, Hope - Shadow Spinner , Kezzi - Sophie's World
Writing: copied poems
History: SOTW ch. 6a and 7 and started read aloud - Hittite Warrior, looked at map in Streams of Civilization of the Hittite empire in relation to Israel, Egypt, and Sumer; Kezzi - So Far From the Bamboo Grove
Science: Boys- Painted their clay whales for the ocean box, Girls worked on their science texts
We finished The Golden Goblet.
Personal Reading: This weekend I made progress in Anne of Avonlea, read a chapter of What is a Family, and started rereading Moon Journals, which I am determined to try with the kids this spring some time. I also read about 2/3 of chapter 2 of How to Read Slowly. Driving to church yesterday and around town I was able to listen to most of tape 1 in the audio book Digging To America (recommended by Granny).
Today:
Bible - finished 2 Samuel
Poem
Read Aloud: 1 ch. of Swallowdale
Picture Study: Landscape in The Parable of the Sower by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Math: MUS for boys and Teaching Textbooks for girls
Reading: Abel - Mark Twain, Luke - The Missing Video, Hope - Shadow Spinner , Kezzi - Sophie's World
Writing: copied poems
History: SOTW ch. 6a and 7 and started read aloud - Hittite Warrior, looked at map in Streams of Civilization of the Hittite empire in relation to Israel, Egypt, and Sumer; Kezzi - So Far From the Bamboo Grove
Science: Boys- Painted their clay whales for the ocean box, Girls worked on their science texts
Friday, February 16, 2007
Friday, February 16, 2007
(I'm down today with a mean cold, so not much school was done today.)
Bible
Poem
Read Aloud: Swallowdale
Math - regular math
Writing: Freewrite on Ancient Egypt; Kezzzi wrote about Hiroshima; Annalise copied her name, address and phone number
History: Egypt notebook page; Kezzi finished Hiroshima - yeah!
Music: listened to Mozart while doing notebook pages
Girls go to dance this afternoon.
My personal reading: last night I skimmed through Anne of Green Gables to find once again, that it is virtually word for word the same as the movie so I moved on to Anne of Avonlea. I have never read the Anne series mostly because I did not enjoy reading what I had already heard and seen. I'm not one of those who usually enjoys rereading anything. I also read the first chapter of How to Read Slowly but I should find a book called Finish What You Start. Maybe if I also use this blog to record my personal reading I will be inspired to reach higher and possibly finish something. I've been in a terrible rut lately of reading a little here and a little there of a variety of things, but never really reading through anything. There are about ten books on my nightstand right now and many of them have been started....
Bible
Poem
Read Aloud: Swallowdale
Math - regular math
Writing: Freewrite on Ancient Egypt; Kezzzi wrote about Hiroshima; Annalise copied her name, address and phone number
History: Egypt notebook page; Kezzi finished Hiroshima - yeah!
Music: listened to Mozart while doing notebook pages
Girls go to dance this afternoon.
My personal reading: last night I skimmed through Anne of Green Gables to find once again, that it is virtually word for word the same as the movie so I moved on to Anne of Avonlea. I have never read the Anne series mostly because I did not enjoy reading what I had already heard and seen. I'm not one of those who usually enjoys rereading anything. I also read the first chapter of How to Read Slowly but I should find a book called Finish What You Start. Maybe if I also use this blog to record my personal reading I will be inspired to reach higher and possibly finish something. I've been in a terrible rut lately of reading a little here and a little there of a variety of things, but never really reading through anything. There are about ten books on my nightstand right now and many of them have been started....
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Kezzi and Hope stayed home, while I took Candace and Priscilla to the airport this morning. The boys and I spent the rest of the morning browsing in a couple of used book stores and the library. The boys love one bookstore in particular because in addition to lots of great books they have cats roaming around. We didn't do any school today but we did listen to some of Homer Price on the way home and they spent some time reading their books.
At home the girls worked on math, science and reading and did some painting.
I read the first story in James Herriot's Treasury for Children to Annalise. She finished her reading of Day In and Day Out (an old Alice and Jerry reader).
At home the girls worked on math, science and reading and did some painting.
I read the first story in James Herriot's Treasury for Children to Annalise. She finished her reading of Day In and Day Out (an old Alice and Jerry reader).
Wednesday, Februrary 14, 2007
Bible
Poem
Read Aloud: started Swallowdale, the second of the Swallows and Amazons series
Math: regular programs for everyone
Reading: everyone reads book of choice
Science: (and writing) boys make notebook page on whale movements, Hope reads some of her biology book and Kezzi read some bird biology and worked on a notebook page
**Luke read Mystery of the Night Woods voluntarily during his break
History: working on coloring timeline figures while listening to a chapter from Tales From Ancient Egypt and The Golden Goblet.
Writing: Hope- book report on The Giver; Kezzi - Format Writing
movie night: we watched Mrs. Brown about Queen Victoria
Poem
Read Aloud: started Swallowdale, the second of the Swallows and Amazons series
Math: regular programs for everyone
Reading: everyone reads book of choice
Science: (and writing) boys make notebook page on whale movements, Hope reads some of her biology book and Kezzi read some bird biology and worked on a notebook page
**Luke read Mystery of the Night Woods voluntarily during his break
History: working on coloring timeline figures while listening to a chapter from Tales From Ancient Egypt and The Golden Goblet.
Writing: Hope- book report on The Giver; Kezzi - Format Writing
movie night: we watched Mrs. Brown about Queen Victoria
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Bible
Read Aloud: The Golden Goblet - 3 ch. The kids begged for more of this today so I obliged.
Math - regular programs, Annalise worked on Math U See's website using the online drill and I printed a couple of worksheets for her.
Reading - everyone continues on in their books
Science - boys made their toothed and baleen whales out of clay for the ocean box
History - Hope and I read chapter 1, God and Israel, of Rushdoony's A Christian Survey of World History, in preparation to listen to tape 2 in his lectures. We need to read the first three chapters before we listen to the tape. Kezzi plodded on with Hiroshima, which she is not enjoying, thus the slow pace. She should finish it this week though.
Physical Activity: The kids enjoyed the 60 degree temps today, especially since we are expecting cold the rest of the week. The girls and I went for a walk and boys played outside all afternoon.
Movie: We watched Lassie this evening. It followed the book somewhat. I was a little disappointed that Mrs. Carraclough was not at all like the book. And the ending in the movie wasn't near as good as the ending in the book. But you can't expect to watch a movie based on a book and not have some complaints.
After the movie I read the three youngers 4 chapters of Mr. Popper's Penguins and they were all begging for more - of course, it tends to go that way most often when the choice is bed or continue with the reading. :)
Read Aloud: The Golden Goblet - 3 ch. The kids begged for more of this today so I obliged.
Math - regular programs, Annalise worked on Math U See's website using the online drill and I printed a couple of worksheets for her.
Reading - everyone continues on in their books
Science - boys made their toothed and baleen whales out of clay for the ocean box
History - Hope and I read chapter 1, God and Israel, of Rushdoony's A Christian Survey of World History, in preparation to listen to tape 2 in his lectures. We need to read the first three chapters before we listen to the tape. Kezzi plodded on with Hiroshima, which she is not enjoying, thus the slow pace. She should finish it this week though.
Physical Activity: The kids enjoyed the 60 degree temps today, especially since we are expecting cold the rest of the week. The girls and I went for a walk and boys played outside all afternoon.
Movie: We watched Lassie this evening. It followed the book somewhat. I was a little disappointed that Mrs. Carraclough was not at all like the book. And the ending in the movie wasn't near as good as the ending in the book. But you can't expect to watch a movie based on a book and not have some complaints.
After the movie I read the three youngers 4 chapters of Mr. Popper's Penguins and they were all begging for more - of course, it tends to go that way most often when the choice is bed or continue with the reading. :)
Monday, February 12, 2007
Monday, Februrary 12, 2007
*This weekend I did finish reading The Year of Miss Agnes to Annalise. And last night at bedtime Mr. Potts and I started reading The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. We took turns reading aloud to each other. I'm excited about the two of us reading together and I hope we keep it up.
Bible
Poem from Poetry for a Lifetime
Read Aloud: 1 ch. of The Golden Goblet
Priscilla read Best Christmas Pageant Ever to boys and Annalise
Math: regular math for everyone
Science: Swimming Creatures with boys, Hope worked on Biology, Kezzi - Bird Biology
Writing: boys - science notebook page on baleen whales, Hope - copied poem into her poetry anthololgy. Kezzi's assignment was to use Writer's Inc to choose some new writing form to try. She chose story writing and worked on a story that she had previously started. She was excited because she said Writer's Inc helped her and gave her some new ideas. I think I will let her work on that as much as she would like during her writing time this week, and probably even until she is finished. She spent a lot of school time today on this, along with quite a bit of her free time.
Reading: Abel - Mark Twain, Luke- Toliver's Secret, Hope - a chapter from Shadow Spinner and The Giver
History: with Annalise, Abel, Luke and Hope - SOTW ch. 5 and pg. 33- 39 of Streams of Civilization about Sumer; colored map of Sumer/Mesopotamia, looked at the Sumer sections in some of our Usborne books
It warmed up nicely today and we all enjoyed some outdoor time. Priscilla and I even managed to squeeze in a walk this afternoon.
Bible
Poem from Poetry for a Lifetime
Read Aloud: 1 ch. of The Golden Goblet
Priscilla read Best Christmas Pageant Ever to boys and Annalise
Math: regular math for everyone
Science: Swimming Creatures with boys, Hope worked on Biology, Kezzi - Bird Biology
Writing: boys - science notebook page on baleen whales, Hope - copied poem into her poetry anthololgy. Kezzi's assignment was to use Writer's Inc to choose some new writing form to try. She chose story writing and worked on a story that she had previously started. She was excited because she said Writer's Inc helped her and gave her some new ideas. I think I will let her work on that as much as she would like during her writing time this week, and probably even until she is finished. She spent a lot of school time today on this, along with quite a bit of her free time.
Reading: Abel - Mark Twain, Luke- Toliver's Secret, Hope - a chapter from Shadow Spinner and The Giver
History: with Annalise, Abel, Luke and Hope - SOTW ch. 5 and pg. 33- 39 of Streams of Civilization about Sumer; colored map of Sumer/Mesopotamia, looked at the Sumer sections in some of our Usborne books
It warmed up nicely today and we all enjoyed some outdoor time. Priscilla and I even managed to squeeze in a walk this afternoon.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Friday, February 9, 2007
Bible
Read Aloud - finished Lassie Come Home. I enjoyed this book, especially the last couple of chapters. The dog traveling home got a little slow at times but I think what I enjoyed were the parts about the family dynamics between the Carracloughs, Lassie's original owners, and also between the Grandfather and his granddaughter.
Math - regular for everyone: Abel only completed one long multiplication problem today at the end of the Gamma book but I think he's getting the hang of it, Luke did a review page from lesson 13 in Delta, Hope completed lesson 38 in her algebra book. I am aiming for her to only complete half of the book this year and finish the rest next year when she is in 9th grade. She only has about 25 lessons to go, so I'm considering having her lead the boys in some of their fun-type math activities on some days and/or reading some math books like The Story of Geometry.
Typing practice for boys
Reading - Abel - Mark Twain CFA (This was funny as he was impatiently waiting for the book to start telling about Twain...they kept talking about someone named Sam Clemens... until I told him that was Mark Twain's real name :) , Luke - Toliver's Secret, Hope - (did not read today because she needed time to get ready for dance), Kezzi - short reading from Microbe Hunters, getting ready for dance too
Writing - Dictation from Bible verse: all kids together with youngers stopping sooner
History - Tales From Ancient Egypt with oral narrations. We discussed the Biblical similarities in the story; Kezzi reads Hiroshima
The girls went to dance rehearsal this afternoon - 6 hours of dancing to prepare for their performance in March!
Science/Art with boys - Nature Journals. We looked at our Nature Journaling book. I was hoping to inspire the boys that their nature journals could contain sketches, not always perfect works of art. Poor things. They are always feeling pressure to keep up with their sisters. We have so much bird activity... mourning doves, bluebirds, robins, titmice, nuthatches, flocks of finches: gold and house. We saw at least four pairs of cardinals at the feeders at the same time. They are eating us out house and home. Now if we can just keep our cats from trying to eat them! I painted the cardinals in my nature notebook today. I've really been enjoying playing with the watercolor paints.
Music - playing Mozart
Once again, the Whoonu game makes it's way into the daily activities. This time Candace plays with the boys and Annalise.
Candace also showed the kids how to make a yarn doll and then taught them some string games.
I read a couple of chapters more of The Year of Miss Agnes tonight to Annalise and Abel, but Annalise says it's boring. I'm afraid she's spoiled with good literature and this is worded like a kid is telling the story. She is not appreciating it. I am appreciating some of the Charlotte Mason elements of the teacher in the story but it is not great. I think I'll just skim the rest myself and maybe start Mr. Popper's Penguins as an evening read aloud with her and Abel next week.
Read Aloud - finished Lassie Come Home. I enjoyed this book, especially the last couple of chapters. The dog traveling home got a little slow at times but I think what I enjoyed were the parts about the family dynamics between the Carracloughs, Lassie's original owners, and also between the Grandfather and his granddaughter.
Math - regular for everyone: Abel only completed one long multiplication problem today at the end of the Gamma book but I think he's getting the hang of it, Luke did a review page from lesson 13 in Delta, Hope completed lesson 38 in her algebra book. I am aiming for her to only complete half of the book this year and finish the rest next year when she is in 9th grade. She only has about 25 lessons to go, so I'm considering having her lead the boys in some of their fun-type math activities on some days and/or reading some math books like The Story of Geometry.
Typing practice for boys
Reading - Abel - Mark Twain CFA (This was funny as he was impatiently waiting for the book to start telling about Twain...they kept talking about someone named Sam Clemens... until I told him that was Mark Twain's real name :) , Luke - Toliver's Secret, Hope - (did not read today because she needed time to get ready for dance), Kezzi - short reading from Microbe Hunters, getting ready for dance too
Writing - Dictation from Bible verse: all kids together with youngers stopping sooner
History - Tales From Ancient Egypt with oral narrations. We discussed the Biblical similarities in the story; Kezzi reads Hiroshima
The girls went to dance rehearsal this afternoon - 6 hours of dancing to prepare for their performance in March!
Science/Art with boys - Nature Journals. We looked at our Nature Journaling book. I was hoping to inspire the boys that their nature journals could contain sketches, not always perfect works of art. Poor things. They are always feeling pressure to keep up with their sisters. We have so much bird activity... mourning doves, bluebirds, robins, titmice, nuthatches, flocks of finches: gold and house. We saw at least four pairs of cardinals at the feeders at the same time. They are eating us out house and home. Now if we can just keep our cats from trying to eat them! I painted the cardinals in my nature notebook today. I've really been enjoying playing with the watercolor paints.
Music - playing Mozart
Once again, the Whoonu game makes it's way into the daily activities. This time Candace plays with the boys and Annalise.
Candace also showed the kids how to make a yarn doll and then taught them some string games.
I read a couple of chapters more of The Year of Miss Agnes tonight to Annalise and Abel, but Annalise says it's boring. I'm afraid she's spoiled with good literature and this is worded like a kid is telling the story. She is not appreciating it. I am appreciating some of the Charlotte Mason elements of the teacher in the story but it is not great. I think I'll just skim the rest myself and maybe start Mr. Popper's Penguins as an evening read aloud with her and Abel next week.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Up late today, recovering from THE BIRTHDAY and our late bedtime last night. And our day is cut short by our nieces and nephews arriving to stay with us today before going to Grandma and Grandpa's because of their parents leaving for a funeral in another state. Added to all of this, we needed to do some housecleaning in preparation for some house guests this weekend.
Morning Read Aloud - a poem and 1 ch. The Golden Goblet
Math - regular math today: MUS and TT
Reading - Abel - Mark Twain, Luke - Toliver's Secret, Hope -Daughter of the Land , Kezzi - health book
Science - watched The Blue Planet Deep Ocean DVD
Luke spent some sweet time with his cousin Lily, entertaining her with drawing-on-command, sharks and aligators attacking people and such. They both had a great time. When she started talking about wanting to go to Grandma's he told her he didn't want her to go, he wanted her to stay here. This really touched me, especially coming from Mr. Little Macho Man himself. Abel also played nicely with all of the younger children, keeping them entertained all afternoon.
Three of the girls had an art class tonight. It's wonderful to see them inspired to try new things.
Morning Read Aloud - a poem and 1 ch. The Golden Goblet
Math - regular math today: MUS and TT
Reading - Abel - Mark Twain, Luke - Toliver's Secret, Hope -Daughter of the Land , Kezzi - health book
Science - watched The Blue Planet Deep Ocean DVD
Luke spent some sweet time with his cousin Lily, entertaining her with drawing-on-command, sharks and aligators attacking people and such. They both had a great time. When she started talking about wanting to go to Grandma's he told her he didn't want her to go, he wanted her to stay here. This really touched me, especially coming from Mr. Little Macho Man himself. Abel also played nicely with all of the younger children, keeping them entertained all afternoon.
Three of the girls had an art class tonight. It's wonderful to see them inspired to try new things.
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
We have a tradition of taking off school on birthdays and today was Priscilla's 18th. So we slept in a little and then spent the morning playing games and preparing for the birthday dinner. A couple of the girls had to go to dance for a couple of hours in the afternoon.
Then we had extended family over for dinner and rushed out the door to go ice skating. We all had a grand time. I had not been iceskating for 20 years! Some of my younger kids had never been but took to it quickly. Annalise cried when she had to come off the rink because she didn't want to leave.
Since we traded in our big 15 passenger van for two minivans, I enjoy travel time talking with the children who are riding with me. The girls and I had a nice time last night talking and listening to music.
When we came home, at around 11:00, Priscilla performed a dance for all of us to this song. It was very beautiful and touching. Everyone went to bed, but Candace, Priscilla and I stayed up until about 2am laughing and talking.
Then we had extended family over for dinner and rushed out the door to go ice skating. We all had a grand time. I had not been iceskating for 20 years! Some of my younger kids had never been but took to it quickly. Annalise cried when she had to come off the rink because she didn't want to leave.
Since we traded in our big 15 passenger van for two minivans, I enjoy travel time talking with the children who are riding with me. The girls and I had a nice time last night talking and listening to music.
When we came home, at around 11:00, Priscilla performed a dance for all of us to this song. It was very beautiful and touching. Everyone went to bed, but Candace, Priscilla and I stayed up until about 2am laughing and talking.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Tuesday, Februrary 6, 2007
Bible - 2 Samuel
Poem - Poetry for a Lifetime
Read Aloud - Lassie
US Geography - Name That State Game with homemade cards using information from our It Happened In America readings
Poem - Poetry for a Lifetime
Read Aloud - Lassie
US Geography - Name That State Game with homemade cards using information from our It Happened In America readings
Math - MUS for boys, Teaching Textbooks for girls; Annalise worked on her Math It- Addit it board
Science - each worked from their Apologia book
History - Story of the World ch. 4, looked at Mummies Made in Egypt and Pyramid, a chapter from Golden Goblet; Kezzi read Hiroshima
Reading - Kezzi - How the Heather Looks, Hope- Screwtape Letters , Luke - Toothpaste Millionaire, Abel - CFA Mark Twain
Writing - Annalise copied the titles of two books she has recently finished into her Reading Journal; boys finished Bible verse copywork; girls went to coffee shop with mom and did a lesson in Our Mother Tongue plus some freewriting
Science - each worked from their Apologia book
History - Story of the World ch. 4, looked at Mummies Made in Egypt and Pyramid, a chapter from Golden Goblet; Kezzi read Hiroshima
Reading - Kezzi - How the Heather Looks, Hope- Screwtape Letters , Luke - Toothpaste Millionaire, Abel - CFA Mark Twain
Writing - Annalise copied the titles of two books she has recently finished into her Reading Journal; boys finished Bible verse copywork; girls went to coffee shop with mom and did a lesson in Our Mother Tongue plus some freewriting
...AND the coffee shop hung the girls' artwork up! One painting by each of the girls plus the baby portrait of Candace that Priscilla drew.
Priscilla read Best Christmas Pageant Ever to boys and Annalise this afternoon while we were out, and read some of Ginger Pye to Annalise; then she taught the boys and Annalise how to play Whoonu...which has been the rage all afternoon and evening.
Priscilla read Best Christmas Pageant Ever to boys and Annalise this afternoon while we were out, and read some of Ginger Pye to Annalise; then she taught the boys and Annalise how to play Whoonu...which has been the rage all afternoon and evening.
Monday, February 5, 2007
Monday, February 5, 2007
Bible - chapter from 2 Samuel
Read Aloud - The Golden Goblet
Math - Kezzi and Hope - Geometery and Algebra; boys - multiplication war, activity from I Hate Mathematics
Priscilla reads more of Ginger Pye to Annalise and Annalise started the third reader in the first grade set today.
Twelfth Night from Tales From Shakespeare - first half (with a hot cocoa, snuggly blankets and a fire in the fireplace) - the boys really got a kick out of this story
Picture study - introduced next print by Pieter Breugel The Elder: Tower of Babel, oral narrations, briefly discussed and read the Tower of Babel story in the Bible
Writing - Kezzi does written narration on her reading of Sophie's World, Hope does her written narration from the Shakespeare story, boys freewrite about sledding trip on Saturday then choose one freewrite to revise/edit later on this week
Science - bird paintings
Read Aloud - The Golden Goblet
Math - Kezzi and Hope - Geometery and Algebra; boys - multiplication war, activity from I Hate Mathematics
Priscilla reads more of Ginger Pye to Annalise and Annalise started the third reader in the first grade set today.
Twelfth Night from Tales From Shakespeare - first half (with a hot cocoa, snuggly blankets and a fire in the fireplace) - the boys really got a kick out of this story
Picture study - introduced next print by Pieter Breugel The Elder: Tower of Babel, oral narrations, briefly discussed and read the Tower of Babel story in the Bible
Writing - Kezzi does written narration on her reading of Sophie's World, Hope does her written narration from the Shakespeare story, boys freewrite about sledding trip on Saturday then choose one freewrite to revise/edit later on this week
Science - bird paintings
Friday, February 2, 2007
Friday, February 2, 2007
Bible
Math - everyone as usual
Typing - the boys are practicing typing daily with Typing Instructor Deluxe. I forgot to record that the last couple of days
Science - a story in Audubon's True Nature Stories for the boys, Kezzi worked on her Bird Biology
Reading - Abel finished Annie Oakley today, Luke is still working on Toothpaste Millionaire(almost finished) , Kezzi read How the Heather Looks, Hope read Elements of Style and Ourselves
History - Story of Mankind ch. 5, SOTW ch. 3 and The Golden Goblet with Hope, the boys and Annalise; Annalise and Abel played with the Hieroglyphs template
Writing - Freewrite of choice with boys (I have a notebook of Freewrite ideas that I printed off from www.bravewriter.com)
Three of the girls went off to dance class this afternoon. The rest of us stayed home preparing for our sledding expedition to the mountains tomorrow.
The boys and Annalise watched Flipper and played Name That State game this afternoon.
All of the girls went over to my sister's house tonight to help her pack and get ready to leave to go out of town because of a death in their extended family. Annalise brought me her Pathway reader and begged to finish it tonight. Then I read her some of The Year of Miss Agnes.
Math - everyone as usual
Typing - the boys are practicing typing daily with Typing Instructor Deluxe. I forgot to record that the last couple of days
Science - a story in Audubon's True Nature Stories for the boys, Kezzi worked on her Bird Biology
Reading - Abel finished Annie Oakley today, Luke is still working on Toothpaste Millionaire(almost finished) , Kezzi read How the Heather Looks, Hope read Elements of Style and Ourselves
History - Story of Mankind ch. 5, SOTW ch. 3 and The Golden Goblet with Hope, the boys and Annalise; Annalise and Abel played with the Hieroglyphs template
Writing - Freewrite of choice with boys (I have a notebook of Freewrite ideas that I printed off from www.bravewriter.com)
Three of the girls went off to dance class this afternoon. The rest of us stayed home preparing for our sledding expedition to the mountains tomorrow.
The boys and Annalise watched Flipper and played Name That State game this afternoon.
All of the girls went over to my sister's house tonight to help her pack and get ready to leave to go out of town because of a death in their extended family. Annalise brought me her Pathway reader and begged to finish it tonight. Then I read her some of The Year of Miss Agnes.
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Thursday, February 1, 2007
First thing this morning the younger kids went out to play in the 1" of snow that fell over night so we reduced the school load today.
Math - only Kezzi worked on her Geometry, everyone else skipped math today
Science - the wonder of snow! :)
Read Aloud - Lassie Come Home, 2 ch.
Reading time
History - Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs and ch. 2 of Story of the World; Kezzi read Hiroshima
Writing/Grammar - The Great Editing Adventure for the boys, Editor-in-Chief for the girls AND
copywork for everyone
I read a couple of chapters to Annalise and Abel listened in to The Year of Miss Agnes and she read to me from her Pathway reader. Priscilla also read some of Ginger Pye to her this morning.
Kezzi went over to help my sister with the babies this afternoon. The boys went down to help at the shop. And tonight we are going with a friend of mine who needs help shopping for new jeans. She has probably never shopped with four teenage girls since she's been an adult. She doesn't know what she's in for! :)
Math - only Kezzi worked on her Geometry, everyone else skipped math today
Science - the wonder of snow! :)
Read Aloud - Lassie Come Home, 2 ch.
Reading time
History - Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs and ch. 2 of Story of the World; Kezzi read Hiroshima
Writing/Grammar - The Great Editing Adventure for the boys, Editor-in-Chief for the girls AND
copywork for everyone
I read a couple of chapters to Annalise and Abel listened in to The Year of Miss Agnes and she read to me from her Pathway reader. Priscilla also read some of Ginger Pye to her this morning.
Kezzi went over to help my sister with the babies this afternoon. The boys went down to help at the shop. And tonight we are going with a friend of mine who needs help shopping for new jeans. She has probably never shopped with four teenage girls since she's been an adult. She doesn't know what she's in for! :)
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