Blessed Company Academy - Homeschool Blogger

Supply List

Mon, 6 Feb 2006 13:07:00 -0600

Bible
King James Bible
The New England Primer

English
Simply Phonics
Simply English
Spell Bright Level 2

Reading
McGuffey's Eclectic Primer & First Reader
First Favorites Volume 1 & 2

Math
Simply Numbers Level A
Games

History
The Rainbow Book of American History
Various Read Alouds

Literature
First Favorites Volume 1 & 2
Literature Pockets:
    Nursery Rhymes

Science
Living Learning Books Level 1:
    Animals, Human Body & Plants
First Book of Nature
The Natural World
Fun with Nature

Geography
I didn't like my original choice. Know using globe and map printouts.

Penmanship
Daily Handwriting Practice, Modern Manuscript

Memory Work
King James Bible
The Real Mother Goose
Pledge of Allegiance
Planets
Oceans
Continents

We also do hands on crafts. I don't schedule them, they just happen!!

A Formidable List of Attainments for a Child of Six

Thu, 8 Dec 2005 20:20:00 -0600

"A Formidable List of Attainments for a Child of Six", a reprint
of a curriculum outline from a CM school in the 1890's.
from Summer 93 Parents Review pub by Karen Andreola

To recite, beautifully, six easy poems and hymns.

To recite, perfectly and beautifully, a parable and a psalm.

To add and subtract numbers up to ten, with dominoes or counters.

To read-what, and how much, will depend on what we are told of the child; children vary much in their power of reading.

To copy in print-hand from a book.

To know the points of the compass with relation to their own home, where the sun rises and sets, and the way the wind blows.

To describe the boundaries of their own home.

To describe any lake, river, pond, island within easy reach.

To tell quite accurately (however shortly) Three stories from Bible history, three from early English, and three from early Roman history.

To be able to describe three walks and three views.

To mount in a scrapbook a dozen common wildflowers, with leaves (one every week) ;to name these, describe them in their own words, and say where they found them.

To do the same with the leaves and flowers of six forest trees.

To know six birds, by song, color and shape.

To send in certain Kindergarten or other handiwork, as directed.

To tell three stories about their own "pets"-rabbit, dog, or cat.

To name twenty common objects in French and say a dozen little sentences.

To sing one hymn, one French song, and one English song.

To keep a caterpillar, and tell the life-story of a butterfly from his own observations.

A formidable list of attainments for a child of five or six, but it is nearly all play-work, and to be done out-of-doors. The "sit-still" work should not occupy more than an hour and a half daily, and the time-table will show how all can be done, little by little, by day-by-day efforts. Our aim is to gather up the fragments of the child's desultory knowledge, so that nothing is lost.

New Student

Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:53:00 -0600

My name is Monti and I have been homeschooling since 2003. I have three children ages 5, 3 & 1. My oldest daughter is currently in kindergarten and my other daughter will start preschool in January.

January will be my 9th wedding anniversary to my wonderful and very patient husband!! I like sewing and reading in my spare time. I also like costume dramas like Mansfield Park, The Forsyte Saga, and The Phantom of the Opera.

I'm a little old fashioned, I love tea parties and all things Victorian. I would love to wear frilly dresses and stroll in the park with my family.

I'm not perfect, but I love sharing my ideas and learning new things.

Lady Montgomery