Classical Conversations: Week 17.Bible memory, history time line, Star Spangled Banner, presentations (public speaking), science experiments, famous artist/art project, geography, history/science/Latin/grammar/math memory work, 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)
Fine Arts:
Memorizing The Tyger by William Blake(Levi) Famous Artist lapbook pages (for CC)
Dancing With Degas by Merberg and Bober
I Dreamed I Was a Ballerina by Anna Pavlova illustrated with art by Degas
A Child’s Introduction to BalletAlice in Wonderland Ballet (attended educational performance at The Hult!!)Alice in Wonderland poetry by Lewis Carroll
Geography/Cultures:Geography Songs: Western EuropeAround the World Coloring Book: Germany, Austria, SwitzerlandCountries Around the World: Austria (DVD)Countries Around the World: Switzerland (DVD)(CC Geography review/drawing Europe)The Sound of Music (DVD)(Luke playing Edelweiss on piano :))
Language Arts:
Grammar Island (pgs 127-147)Building Language (pgs 3-41)
Spelling:
AAS: Steps 10-12
Handwriting:
HWT work book pages
Latin:
Song School Latin: Ch. 8, 9
Spanish:
DVD lessons: 1/2/3,4
Math:
Drill Worksheets at Home School Math
Math Brain (online games)Math Noodlers (board game)
Science:
Newton’s Second Law of Motion at Khan Academy (online video)Bill Nye: Patterns (DVD)Bill Nye: Measurement (DVD)
History:
War Boy: A Country Childhood by Michael Foreman (childhood war memoir by an English artist/children’s book illustrator, fabulous!)
{October 45} Childhood Memories of the War by Jean-Louis Besson (another childhood war memoir by French illustrator)
Truce by Jim Murphy
The 1940s Decade in Photos: A World at War by Jim Corrigan
The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark by Carmen Agra Deedy
D-Day Landings: The Story of the Allied Invasion by Richard Platt
My Secret War Diary by Maria Williams
Levi’s Assigned Reading:
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy (247 pgs)
A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor by Harry Mazer (104 pgs)
Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop (76 pgs)
Family Read-Aloud:
Little Britches by Ralph Moody (ch 26-28)
Miscellaneous:
Star Spangled BannerGreat Americans for Children: Eleanor Roosevelt (DVD)Prepared presentations for CC Week 18 (family presentation)Valentine crafts for classmatesLuke piano practice Su, M, Tu, W+Lesson, F, Sa
“I don’t need time. What I need is a deadline.”
~Duke Ellington