Acknowledging Him
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Well, maybe I'm not really obligated to post about what we're doing this year, but I enjoy this sort of thing, and I know some of you do too, so here 'tis. This year, Arianna will be doing mostly second grade work, and Zeke and Noelle will be going through a somewhat abbreviated Sonlight P4/5 course (and No, I did not pay that much; I'm just linking in case anyone is interested in seeing what it includes). Abbreviated because for various reasons I do not own some of the books, nor do I have plans to get them. Improvised might be a better word. Anyhow, I'll talk more about the specifics as we got to them. Here's the breakdown by subject. Bible Because I didn't want to buy Sonlight's suggested Bible story book, we will be reading through ours again. We will however be memorizing the verses suggested in the lesson plan, because every now and then, I DO like to be told what to do (mostly when it makes my life easier). Arianna will be reading corresponding passages in her Bible. Phonics & Language Arts Noelle and Ezekiel are both working in Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons (Noelle is much farther along). This year Arianna has started Level 1 of Sequential Spelling. I really like the way this program teaches spelling, but it is a little teacher intensive, so I hope I'm able to stick with it! She is also about halfway through reading the books on this list. She reads aloud for now, but when she moves on to the next list, she will be reading silently, and I will only require narrrations to gauge her understanding. I'll list the books here for those interested, but not link individually; for quick information on a specific book, click the previous link :) Keep the Lights Burning Abbie, The Long Way to a New Land, The Long Way Westward, At Home in a New Land, The Chalk Box Kid, The Paint Brush Kid, Prairie School, Clara and the Book Wagon, Riding the Pony Express, The Secret Valley, Third Grade Detectives #1, Cora Frear, THe House on Walenska Street, The Littles, Viking Adventure, The Last Little Cat, Tippy Lemmy, Tornado. Handwritting For both girls this year will just be copy work. I use StartWrite to create copywork sheets using our memory verses, vocabulary words, poems that strike my fancy, and so far it's working alright. Ezekiel does not do handwriting yet. Math Both girls are still going through their Horizons math books from last year; Arianna nearly finished with the second book, and Noelle almost through the first kindergarten book. I still really like this program, though I think that Arianna is going to need a bit more practice with memorizing her basic math facts before we move on to second grade. Ezekiel has just begun this Developing the Early Learner workbook. He has been begging to "do math" like the girls for at least half a year, and while these are not specifically math related, he loves them. I'm happy with them too, and it's so cute to hear him asking for more when I tell him we are done! Literature This year we are reading three books from Ambleside Online's Year 3 curriculum: The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat as well as 6 Tales from Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, Pericles, The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, and Hamlet. And we have an (almost) daily poetry reading from The Oxford Book of Children's Verse. Literature selections for the littles will include: The Real Mother Goose, Stories From Around the World, The Children's Book of Virtues, (we have the treasury) The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit, The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook (LOVE her), The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit (if by complete you mean 4 stories out of the 23 she wrote. ANYway...) and Eric Carle's Animals, Animals. History and Geography All of my students learn history together. This year we are studying the 1800's and focusing on US geography as the colonists become pioneers and start heading west. You can read more about it and see our current book list in my last post. We have a nifty timeline with images from here, and will do lots of map work, for which I wish I had THESE or even THIS.  I have just recently decided (like, as I'm typing this, LOL) to add Minn of the Mississippi and Tree in the Trail to our history and geography studies - fun stuff! Social Studies This is mainly a subject for my preschooler to have a little fun with, as well as a catch-all category for things I want to remember to teach the kids like How to Tie Shoes, What To Do In Case of Fire, and how to sing Kumbaya. Some of the books we'll be reading in this category are: A Child's book of Art, Then and Now, Things People Do, The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature, The Year at Maple Hill Farm, and First Thousand Words in Spanish. Science Another subject we all enjoy together. This year we'll be studying plants in Jeannie Fulbright's Exploring Creation with Botany. So far we've collected samples of both vascular plants and moss right in our own front yard, and made notebook pages recording our finds - fun stuff! Art & Music Study I haven't actually planned the whole year yet, but for this term we will be studying the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh (which the more I see, the more I appreciate) and the compositions of Franz Liszt. Also on the docket are some folk songs like O Susana!, Follow the Drinking Gourd, and The Erie Canal. Phew! I think that's it. Seem like it took me about 10 times as long to type it all up as it will take anyone to read it, putting in all those links. Not to mention the 3 times I accidently navigated away from the page and had to start all over again...The only thing I didn't mention were our read-alouds, which are our bedtime stories around here, and not really part of 'school.' But since some of you booklist junkies might be interested in that, I will try to get it up tomorrow, m'kay? |
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