History/Church History
Well, our first week back from Christmas break was filled with distractions, so we didn't quite get it done. Rather than rush through Alfred and the Vikings we will settle in for another week.
Government
This week we have been studying Alfred's Doom Book. I found a good web site that gives some background information on Alfred and his laws, even though we have TOG's government supplement it was helpful and those of you who do not have the Government cd will find the information needed to answer the government questions.
Literature
Lower Grammar - I'm reading "Leif the Lucky" aloud to Ethan.
Dialectic - Zachary is enjoying The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow.
Hands-on
Zach began carving the image of a viking ship into a bar of Ivory soap. Their web site includes soap carving instructions.
Something Fun
Last year I taught a literature class to 9 - 12 year olds at our co-op. We read Heaney's version of Beowulf, did some literary analysis, vocabulary study, and discussion. In addition, my students wrote a script inspired by Heaney's text, made puppets, and filmed their show. It was a fun and relatively easy project.
Karen,
you are just amazing. I know your kids are just in awe of such a mom. I am anyway.
Keep up posting. Too bad you don't have this for year one where we are.
Thanks. Stephanie
The script really fantastic. I have so many questions. Could you post more about how you went about writing your script; how you matched up the background music so well with the scence. Oh gosh, so many qusetions. Our children love Beowulf. They love to make little films. I must show them this.
Lorna, for the script my students simply went through the Heaney text and pulled out lines here and there, the comic relief is their own ;) The music was from both the motion picture version of LOTR and my cd featuring the BBC cast. We filmed the puppet show and recorded the voices separately and I was able to put it all together on my Mac using the program iMovie. Movies are really simple to make with iMovie.
This blog is a look into our homeschooling journey as we use Tapestry of Grace. You'll also find stories from various books I have collected that are now in the public domain and real life slipping in occasionally. Most posts from the public domain books have a pdf that you may download and print. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
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you are just amazing. I know your kids are just in awe of such a mom. I am anyway.
Keep up posting. Too bad you don't have this for year one where we are.
Thanks. Stephanie