Mt. Hope Academy 2011 ~ Week 9

Classical Conversations: Week 20. (Only 4 weeks left!)
Bible memory, history time line, presentations (public speaking), science experiments, music, geography, history/science/Latin/grammar/math memory work, and social/gym time.

CC Memory Review

Bible:
Sing the Word From A to Z (CD)
Children's Illustrated Bible (Luke, read aloud and independently)
Day by Day Kid's Bible (Levi, independently)
The Early Reader's Bible (Leif, read aloud and independently)
Cedarmont Kids: Hymns (CD)

Fine Arts:
(The Artists' Specials) Goya: Awakened in a Dream (DVD)
The Heroic Symphony by Anna Harwell Celenza (Beethoven)
DK Eyewitness: Music
A Child's Introduction to Poetry (William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Geography/Cultures:
Geography Songs: Asia (CD)
Countries Around the World: Vietnam (DVD)
Countries Around the World: Cambodia (DVD)
The Land I Lost by Huynh Quang Nhuong
Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam by Huynh Quang Nhuong

Language Arts:
All About Spelling (steps 18,19)
Sentence Island (pgs 90-108)
Practice Island (sentences 8-12)
Building Language (stem lesson 5)

Latin:
Song School Latin (ch 15, 16)

Spanish:
(nada)

Math:
Money & Making Change (DVD)
Got started on our new Singapore math books

Science:
(Levi) The Story of Science: Newton at the Center (Ch. 37: Obeying the (Second) Law [of Thermodynamics])
Bill Nye: Heat (DVD)
Bill Nye: The Science of Music (DVD)
Bill Nye: Friction (DVD)
(The Inventors' Specials) Einstein: Light to the Power of 2 (DVD)


History/Literature:
Leaving Vietnam: The True Story of Tuan Ngo by Sarah S. Kilborne
The Wall by Eve Bunting

Levi's Assigned Reading:
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

Family Read-Aloud:
Man of the Family by Ralph Moody (ch 6-10)

Miscellaneous:
Luke piano practice and lesson
Family swim night
Lots of bike riding (Leif learned how to ride without training wheels and didn't want to stop!)

Family Movie:
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken

(I have no idea what Levi read this week!)