Mt. Hope Academy 2011 ~ Week 1

After a year of laid-back schooling, we’re getting into a new groove. Time to get down to business!!

Classical Conversations: Week 13.
Bible memory, history time line, Star Spangled Banner, presentations (public speaking), science experiment, famous artist/art project, geography, history/science/Latin/grammar/math memory work, and gym/social time.

CC Memory Reveiw (Daily)

Bible:

(Daily)Sing the Word From A to Z (memorized verses A, B, C, and D)

Children’s Illustrated Bible (Luke, read aloud)

Day by Day Kid’s Bible (Levi, independently)
The Early Reader’s Bible (Leif, read aloud)

Hymns:

(Daily)Come Thou Almighty King (Levi on piano)Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow (Luke on piano)

Fine Arts:

Read about William Blake in A Child’s Introduction to Poetry
Memorizing The Tyger by William BlakeRead Haydn’s biography page at Making Music FunBeethoven’s Wig: Haydn’s Great Surprise (CD)Rembrandt coloring page

Geography/Cultures:
Geography Songs: Scandinavia

Around the World Coloring Book: ScandinaviaCountries Around the World: Finland (DVD)Countries Around the World: Sweden (DVD)(CC Geography review/drawing Europe)

Grammar:

Grammar Island (pgs 1-43)

Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What Is an Adverb? by Brian P. Cleary

Spelling:

All About Spelling: Introduced and studied phonograms

Handwriting:

HWT work book pages daily, Proverbs (Levi)

Latin:

Song School Latin: Ch. 1/review, 2/review

Spanish:

DVD lessons: month 1/week 1/lessons 1-2

Math:

Telling Time (DVD)Time flashcardsWorksheets Daily

Science:
Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia: Phases of Matter

Bill Nye: Phases of Matter (DVD)Bill Nye: Inventions (DVD)Bill Nye: Magnetism (DVD)Bill Nye: Space Exploration (DVD)(The Inventors’ Specials) Newton: A Tale of Two Isaacs (DVD)

So You Want To Be An Inventor? by Judith St. George

History:
History Encyclopedias (Usborne-Luke, Kingfisher-Levi): Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution: From Muscles to Machines
Mill Times (David Macaulay) (DVD)

Levi’s Assigned Reading:

(January 3-16th)

Robert Fulton: Boy Craftsman by Marguerite Henry (190 pgs)

The Story of Eli Whitney by Jean Lee Latham (192 pgs)
The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson (192 pgs)
Michael Faraday: Father of Electronics by Charles Ludwig (205 pgs)
Brainstorm! The Stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors by Tom Tucker (144 pgs)
Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Sweden retold by Virginia Haviland (92 pags)

Family Read-Aloud:

Little Britches by Ralph Moody (ch 7-11)

Miscellaneous:

Great Americans for Children: Amelia Earhart (DVD)

Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride by Pam Munoz Ryan

Star Spangled Banner illustrated by Peter Spier (and sang daily with CD)Prepared presentations for CC Week 14 (New Testament story/parable)

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

Free reading daily.