Mt. Hope Academy 2011 ~ Week 6



Classical Conversations: Week 18.
Bible memory, history time line, Star-Spangled Banner, presentations (public speaking)/family presentation, science experiments, famous artist/art project, geography, history/science/Latin/grammar/math memory work, Valentine’s parties, and gym/social time.

CC Memory Review

Bible:

Sing the Word From A to Z (reviewed verses)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)

Hymns:

Cedarmont Kids: Hymns (CD)This Is My Father’s World (mom on piano)

Geography/Cultures:

Geography Songs: Former USSR and reviewAround the World Coloring Book: RussiaCountries Around the World: Russia (DVD)Countries Around the World: Belgium (DVD)(CC Geography review/drawing Europe)

Language Arts:

Grammar Island (pgs 148-end)Practice Island (sentences 1 and 2)Sentence Island (Ch. 1)Building Language (stem lessons 1 and 2)

A Surfeit of Similes by Norton Juster

All About Spelling: Steps 13-14


Latin:Song School Latin: Ch. 10/review, 11/review

Spanish:

DVD lessons: 1/3/1

Math:

Drill Worksheets at Home School Math
Math Brain (online games)Test Prep Math Story Problems Flash Cards

Science:

Newton’s Third Law of Motion at Khan Academy (online video)Bill Nye: Spinning Things (DVD)Bill Nye: Gravity (DVD)Bill Nye: Fluids (DVD)Popular Mechanics for Kids: Lightning and Other Forces of Nature (DVD)

History:

Kingfisher History Encyclopedia (Levi): China and Japan at War, WWII, The United Nations
The Little Riders by Margaretha Shemin
The Big Lie: A True Story by Isabella Leitner

Levi’s Assigned Reading:

The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert Dejong (China during Japanese invasion)
I Am David by Anne Holm (boy escapes from European concentration camp)

Family Read-Aloud:

Little Britches by Ralph Moody (ch 29-31 SOB!!!)

Miscellaneous:

The Star-Spangled Banner (singing)

Stars and Stripes: The Story of the American Flag by Mae Blacker Freeman

Saint Valentine by Robert Sabuda

Luke piano practice Su, M, Tu, W+Lesson, F

Levi’s Free Reading:

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
How to Twist a Dragon’s Tale by Cressida Cowell
How to Speak Dragonese by Cressida Cowell

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”

~C. S. Lewis