more school activities

Monday:
Cursive
Sol fa
Spanish
Phonogram cards
math
copywork
violin
library visit
read Going to the Getty
E 30 minutes read aloud


Tuesday
Science journal regarding salt dissolving into water and flowing into the ocean/ evaporation
Math Division of decimals, money word problems, four digit numbers game
cursive
Phonics
violin
C reads to E (Troll book by D'AuLaires)
E reads to mom (1st reader by Treadwell and Free)
Sol fa
Spanish
math game -make the biggest 4 digit number dice game
Of Courage Undaunted

Friday

Friday
C: read about famous women chose Indira Gandhi and began writing a paragraph about her.
recitation: IEW CD
E. phonics finished Explode the Code vol 3
Read with me.
Read on her own 25 mins
practiced violin
Read about composer Stravinsky
Read a Kipling Poem
Folk song Let us sing Together
Geography: Boulder Dam from Halliburton's Marvels

what we are up to

Wednesday Dec 7
Copywork C and E
E: phonics
C:Spanish CD
E reading 30 minutes
violin
gardening
obstacle course outside
C: Read from inventors about steamboats
E read aloud to me Flicka, Dicka, Ricka
Math E: fractions
C: decimals
Geology- water cycle
Pilgrim's progress

Thursday Dec 8
violin
History _Henry VIII, King Edward and Queen Mary
handicrafts- embroidery
Spanish- kids immersion
Folk songs- Little Liza Jane and Peace Like a River
Literature- The Princess and the Goblin
P.E. My gym
Music/ arts appreciation- Nutcracker performance

At the beginning of the day we played store and they bought stacks of folded clothes and put them in their drawers. Next we did a reading and writing game. E made sentences with the cards then wrote them. She also did 3 pages of phonics, one reading lesson, and a game using a poem written on paper plates pictured below. She also did some drawing ( a knight and lion)

C did a few minutes of copywork, read Cinderella, some Calico Captive, caught a snail in the garden, did duolinguo Spanish and Khan academy math.

daily work

Monday DEC 5TH
E:
MATH numbers 200-300, addition within 100
Phonics explode the code book 3
nature study- drawing aloe and taking in the desert gardens
Spanish- Say Hola to Spanish at the Circus book and estrellitas review
Latin translating first Latin Lessons lesson II sentences
Violin practice
Bears of the Blue River
Handwriting
recitation IEW Poetry
Advent wreath- bible reading, hymn, prayer
Sol-Fa
Folk songs- Elizabeth Mitchel

C:
Math: adding and subtracting decimals
Spanish- Say Hola to Spanish at the Circus book and estrellitas review
Latin translating first Latin Lessons lesson II sentences
Violin practice
Bears of the Blue River
Handwriting
recitation IEW Poetry
Advent wreath- bible reading, hymn, prayer
Sol-Fa
nature study- drawing aloe and taking in the desert gardens

Tuesday:
Math C; concerting decimals to fractions and simplify. E: comparing fractions intro to mixed numbers
read aloud both girls  read
Child's history of the world
Of Courage undaunted: Lewis and Clark
Cl: Spanish game
Cl: read and narrated King Arthur book
violin
Ceasar's English: grammar review, analogies
advent wreath:bible, prayer, hymn
gregorian chant
handicrafts: sloyd envelope and using tools lesson
recitation IEW poetry
history timeline: added Queen Elizabeth 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada
 free read listened to begining of 5 little peppers and how they grew.

Handicrafts

We are trying to do a Charlotte Mason style education following the advise of AmblesideOnline.org. One of the recommended subjects (along with about 15 other subjects) is handicrafts. Some suggestions are:Leather-embossing, Repousse and Woodcarving, Book-binding, Cardboard-Sloyd and  Basket-making. 
We have not been this ambitious so far but after helping 7 year old E make a cardboard canoe coated with wax and painted to look like birchbark and then an indian doll to steer it I am exhausted. These projects  which required her learning two new embroidery stitches and the ins and outs of dealing with applying hot wax were well beyond the scope of the pom pom and googly eye projects we have enjoyed in years past. The results are below.

Another skill learned was perseverance under trials i.e.: poking one's thumb with a needle, frustration with the needle coming un-threaded multiple times and the thread getting tangled. There were several cries of vexation but always she kept in mind her goal to finish the project before her noon  P.E. class. She saw it through to the end. Finishing projects is not one of my strong suits so I am pleased that she made the effort to finish.

I also want to say that I have a huge stash of regular arts and crafts supplies and have them available in bins in the girls room. I call it their maker lab and E frequently gets items out to make something for her dolls to use. She just now fashioned a bow and arrows out of a rubber band, some twist ties and some tiny dowels. So I think it is valuable to keep a variety of supplies on hand.

Here is another list from AO 
macrame*
knitting
crochet
rug hooking*
embroidery
plastic canvas needlework*
cross stitch
felt projects*
clay sculpting*
beadwork
carving-soap or wood*
quilting/patchwork*
weaving-paper, yarn etc.*
braiding/knotting floss e.g. friendship bracelets
lanyards*
wax modeling*
woodworking*
basket weaving*
paper cutting*
doll making
spool knitting
applique
smocking
tatting
needlepoint
wire sculpting*

March

Well, I didn't post this past month. For two weeks we were sick and for two weeks I didn't think of posting anything.
Before we got sick we went to the botanical gardens and loved it so much we decided to get membership for the year. We went again last Monday and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves again.
 Before we got sick we also took a long family walk of a trail by Hubby's work. It was a beautiful morning and we went to Whole Foods  for brunch afterwards.

We got a Wonder Box in the mail which Nanu subscribed to for us. Mark helped the girls solve the puzzles and use the cipher.

As for School this is what we  did this morning:Poetry memory work, Hymn, prayer, scripture memory, book of Acts, Story of the World by Van Loon, Spanish, picture study(Manet), E read McGuffey first reader and I read Tree in the Trail to her and she did Khan Academy Math. C did spelling sentences, cursive, map study and math.