Mt. Hope Academy 2011 ~ Week 14

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!