Weekly Report

Another busy week...

Even so, we still managed to bake some gingerbread men.

The smaller gingerbread men took a dip in some milk.

For our Advent and Christmas Unit, we read Jingle, The Christmas Clown, The Clown of God and The Night of Los Posadas.

For our standard lessons, in Ancient History Munchkin read about Roman Gods and a few more chapters from the Roman Mysteries book Pirates of Pompeii. She also watched a video on Roman Myths and Legends and Horrible Histories: The Rotten Romans. For Australian History, we read about how Governor Arthur Phillip dealt with the food shortages in Sydney. Munchkin used several paragraphs from this chapter for her copywork.

In Science, we continued with our look at Mammals. Munchkin began reading The Story of Russ the Australian Tree Kangaroo by Leslie Rees. Also, Munchkin will be doing a report on a mammal. Her chosen animal is the Red Panda. We discussed what sort of information she should include in her report and she came up with sub-topics such as Anatomy, Diet, Habitat and Lifecycle. To refresh her knowledge of lifecycles, I had Munchkin read Which Came First? by Freddie McKeown.

Finally, in Maths we continued working on unit conversions and long division.

During all our hard work Teddy managed to keep himself occupied by playing

and sleeping.

1:56 PM - Dec. 23, 2007 - comments {0} - post comment

Weekly Report

Here is a snapshot of our past week:

We continued with our Advent and Christmas Unit by reading The Legend of the Poinsettia, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and The Legend of the Candy Cane.

Other activities included making a God's Eye and

enjoying some Mexican Hot Chocolate.

Also, Munchkin finished learning about Alexander the Great and we began our Ancient Rome studies. We began with the Romulus and Remus myth and Munchkin completed a written narration. She also began reading the Pirates of Pompeii and I began reading to her The Bronze Bow.

For Science, we examined the difference between Vertebrates and Invertebrates. Then we moved onto Mammals by watching a documentary and identifying the characteristics of Mammals. Munchkin composed a paragraph explaining the characteristics of Mammals and created a page about Extreme Mammals (the fastest, the slowest, the biggest, the tallest, and the stinkiest mammal). We also began listening to the Burgess Animal Book for Children.

We also attended Group Learning, continued learning about unit conversion in Maths, looked at Collective Nouns in grammar, and baked an Apple Pie.

7:59 PM - Dec. 16, 2007 - comments {0} - post comment

Weekly Report

This week was quite different to last week. This week we managed to get so much more done. Some of the activities Munchkin completed include:

• In addition to her normal reading she read the following books for our Advent and Christmas Unit:
  • Merry Christmas Strega Nona
  • The Country Angel Christmas
  • The Life of St Nicholas
  • The Polar Express
• Video: The Perfect Paragraph
• Wrote a paragraph on the composer Tchaikovsky
• Video: Alexander the Great
• Continued reading Alexander's Great March
• Learned about Classification of Animals
• Baked Christmas Cookies
• Created Salt Dough Ornaments
• Reviewed the following rules for creating plural nouns:
  • s, z, ch, sh and x (add -es)
  • a noun ending in y (drop the -y and add -ies)
  • a noun ending in -f or -fe (change -f to -v and add -es)
• Maths: Unit Conversion problems

8:09 PM - Dec. 7, 2007 - comments {0} - post comment

Weekly Report

Lessons are continuing and Munchkin is completing most of her work. Some days have been quite difficult as Teddy won't nap during the day without putting up a fight. Naptimes consist of me trying to settle him, at which point he usually falls asleep in my arms only to wake up shortly after I put him in his bassinet. This is preventing me from spending time with Munchkin on the lessons which require one on one time. Consequently, Munchkin often completes the basics such as her Mathematics, Copywork and Reading but doesn't always get to what I call the fun stuff. On several days, though, we have been able to do Science and History as well.

Some of the work we covered this week includes:

• Animal Kingdom Classification
• Life and Her Children Arabella Buckley
• Classification of Living Things Video
• Alexander's Great March Book Reading and Narrations
• Peter Tchaikovsky by Mike Venezia + Short Narration
• Nouns Review - Lively Language Lessons
• Advent Countdown Paper Chain and Family Giving Box

8:53 PM - Nov. 30, 2007 - comments {1} - post comment

Advent and Christmas Unit 2007