Classical Conversations: Week 24 (Final Week of the Year!!)
Bible memory, U.S. Presidents, presentations (public speaking), science experiments, music, geography, history/science/Latin/grammar/math memory work, and social/gym time.
CC Memory Review
Faith: Bible Memory:
Sing the Word From A to Z (Verses V-Z)
Independent Bible reading:
Levi: Day by Day Kid’s Bible
Luke: The Children’s Illustrated Bible (DK)
Leif: The Early Reader’s Bible
Math:
Teaching Textbooks daily
Science:
The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia: Electricity
The Magic School Bus Chapter Book: Electric Storm (Luke) Bill Nye: Forests (DVD)
Fine Arts:
Piano practice and lesson (Luke)
Two Scarlet Songbirds: A Story of Anton Dvorak by Carole Lexa Schaefer
Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists: Georges Seurat
Seurat and La Grande Jatte by Robert Burleigh
Sunday With Seurat by Merberg and Bober
A Child’s Introduction to Poetry: Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry for Young People: Edgar Allan Poe
Language Arts:
IEW Writing Primary Arts of Language Writing: Story Sequence
IEW TWSS/Student Writing Intensive A: Key Word Outline
IEW Poetry Memorization (poem #8)
Interjections! (Schoolhouse Rock on YouTube) Building Language (stem lesson 8) Sentence Island (sentences 28-31) Practice Island (pg 147-178)
All About Spelling Level 2 (step 1, 2)
Latin:
Song School Latin (ch 25-27)
Latin Review Game at Headventure Land
Geography/Cultures:
Countries Around the World: South Africa (DVD) Around the World Coloring Book: South Africa Geography Songs: Southern Africa (CD) DK Children’s Illustrated Reference Atlas (Africa)
Misoso: Once Upon a Time Tales from Africa by Verna Aardema
Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Margaret Musgrove
History:
The Usborne Encyclopedia of World History: Rights for All
The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia : South Africa
Literature:
(Finished unabridged audio recording of Pilgrim’s Progress)
Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe adapted by Marianna Mayer (+ animated DVD version) Levi’s Assigned Reading:
Old French Fairy Tales by Comtesse De Segur
The Boy Knight of Reims by Eloise Lownsbery
Levi’s Free Reading:
The 30 Clues: Vespers Rising by Riordan, Lerangis, Korman, and Watson
Luke’s Free Reading:
Dragon Slayers’ Academy: The New Kid at School by Kate McMullan
Family Time:
Playing our new favorite game: SET!
Read Aloud: Man of the Family by Ralph Moody (ch 13-15) Movie Night: Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Family Night at the swimming pool (with Bambi and Poppy, too!)
“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts
but learning how to make facts live.”
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
P.S. Thank you, thank you Sheryll and Elaine for suggesting Windows Live Writer. I think it is going to work perfectly!!! Wahoo!