There may be some overlap with some of these. I will add to the list as we go along. Books are are using:
Tales of Ancient Greece by Enid Blyton
DK Eyewitness Books Ancient Greece
The Children's Homer
The Heroes by Charles Kingsley
Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Wonder-book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ancient History-Based Writing Lessons (IEW)
Streams of Civilization Vol. 1
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
Story of the World vol 1 and Activity Book
Beautiful Feet Ancient History Guide
What's going on in our school?
- Artist: Caspar David Friedrich
- Composer: Franz Liszt
- Extras: Amanda got her cast off this month! Writer's Club, Valentines Party, Bee Keeping Essays, Spelling Bee.
- Scripture of the Week: Esther 4:14, Proverbs 3:5.
- Greece Unit: STOW ch 18-20 (1/2 of 20); The Children's Homer.
- Miles (Preschool): phonics flashcards.
- Amanda (1st grade): Blue Bay Mystery Boxcar Children #6 (68 taking turns reading with mom), phonics readers (finished book 5 and half of 6); Island Story (ch 8), 50 Famous Stories Retold (Bruce and the Spider, The Black Douglas), Aesop (The Ants and the Grasshopper), Paddle to the Sea (ch. 19), Burgess Bird Book (Chipper and Tree Sparrow), Child's Garden of Verses (finished).
- Hannah's Reading (3rd grade): Five Little Peppers (150), Little House on the Prairie (252). Phonics: Set 5 book 12 (finished), and book 13 (all stories). Island Story (ch 26-27 Death of William the Conquerer, William the Red), Child's History of the World (ch 50 Real Castles), A Tree in the Trail (ch 8-11), Burgess Animal Book (ch 10-13). Poetry by Walter de la Mare.
- Emily's Reading (4th/5th grade): The Jungle Book (168), King of the Wind (finished), The Little White Horse (finished), Anne's House of Dreams (finished), Anne of Ingleside (finished), Rainbow Valley (finished), Rilla of Ingleside (80),the Woodbegoods (finished), The Wheel on the School (102), The Bears of Blue River (217), Captivity of Mary of Scottland (part 5), Inventions (ch 6-7 Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin, Elias Howe and the Sewing Machine), Heroes (The Argonauts Part 1 and 2). American Tall Tales (Davey Crocket, Mike Fink), Trial and Triumph (22, 23), Tales of Shakespeare (Taming of the Shrew), Island Story (ch 73-79), Science Lab (through p. 23). Poetry by Sara Teasdale.
- Read aloud: Children's Homer (Greece unit), Gooney Bird and the Room Mother, David Copperfield, The Little Duke, The Pilgrim's Progress (p. 98).
- Gospel Study: Book of Mormon (finished Mormon); Pres. Uchtdorf (Happiness Your Heritage), Elder Dallin H. Oaks (Sacrament Meeting and the Sacrament), (Nov. 08 Ensign).
- Shakespeare: Love's Labor Lost (Act II).
- Biography: Eleanor Roosevelt: Life of Discovery (finished).
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Tot School
Here is a link to a website called Tot School focusing on helping toddlers and preschoolers. There are lots of lapbook ideas.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
My Education
As I look over the various book lists I want my children to read over the years, I am inspired to further my own education. I love to read and usually have several things I am reading at any given time. I have decided to begin a study of the books in year 11 of Ambleside. Here are the books/essays/short stories that I am interested in reading this year, (my goal is to read at least 16 books, plus essays, etc.):
A History of the Twentieth Century: The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History by Martin Gilbert
Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children
The Trial at Nuremberg
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
Slouching Towards Gomorrah by Robert Bork
Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave by David Breese
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Marie Remarque
Nikolai Gogol (The Overcoat)
Edgar Allen Poe (The Fall of the House of Usher)
Anton Chekhov (Gooseberries)
Leo Tolstoy (How Much Land Does a Man Need?)
Mark Twain (The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County)
Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation by Ronald Reagan
On Writing Well The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
Less Than Words Can Say by Richard Mitchell
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard P. Feynman
The Great Astronomers by Robert S. Ball
Our National Parks by John Muir
The Thinking Toolbox: Thirty-Five Lessons That Will Build Your Reasoning Skills by Nathaniel and Hans Bluedorn
Get More Done in Less Time by Donna Otto
Keeper of the Bees by Stratton Porter
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
Portuguesse Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith
A History of the Twentieth Century: The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History by Martin Gilbert
Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children
The Trial at Nuremberg
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
Slouching Towards Gomorrah by Robert Bork
Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave by David Breese
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Marie Remarque
Nikolai Gogol (The Overcoat)
Edgar Allen Poe (The Fall of the House of Usher)
Anton Chekhov (Gooseberries)
Leo Tolstoy (How Much Land Does a Man Need?)
Mark Twain (The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County)
Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation by Ronald Reagan
On Writing Well The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
Less Than Words Can Say by Richard Mitchell
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard P. Feynman
The Great Astronomers by Robert S. Ball
Our National Parks by John Muir
The Thinking Toolbox: Thirty-Five Lessons That Will Build Your Reasoning Skills by Nathaniel and Hans Bluedorn
Get More Done in Less Time by Donna Otto
Keeper of the Bees by Stratton Porter
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
Portuguesse Irregular Verbs by Alexander McCall Smith
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