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