tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61112720290191044932024-03-06T02:57:38.927+03:00All That's GooodOur Journey of Home EducationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger304125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111272029019104493.post-45049180696041123912015-06-20T20:04:00.000+03:002015-09-17T07:52:13.231+03:00Moving On<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I apologize for my silence this past year. It has been one full year of many new things and I just have not had time to post anything here. I hope no one was disappointed about the silence. </div>
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We have made some big changes, my husband took job at an international school which meant that the boys could attend the same school for free. Yippee! It was a great opportunity for all of us to grow and face new challenges. The school was a nice transition from our home education to a more structured system and since the class sizes were small and the philosophy of the school to meet kids where they were at we felt it would not be too much of a change. We did have many gaps in the content which the boys have very expertly filled and they have enjoyed having friends to do school with and the adventure of leaving home each day. As my dh also went with them I have had long free days that I was sorely needing. I began to paint and draw again and fill my hours with much need physical activity.</div>
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The school we were involved with, QSI or <a href="https://www.qsi.org/">Quality Schools Internaltional</a> has many schools throughout the world most of which are in Eastern Europe, and Asia although the school my dh and boys went was in the Middle East. In February the country we were in became politically volatile so we were brought to Slovenia to finish out the school year. The boys are enjoying a boat ride on the famous Lake Bled below.</div>
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While in Slovenia my dh applied for other jobs within the QSI school system and was offered one that was of particular interest to us, a job teaching secondary math in Kiev, Ukraine. So we are now heading there in the fall. We are home in Oregon and Washington for the summer visiting family and friends before we head out for another great adventure. </div>
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I won't be working next year so I plan to continue painting and drawing and learning other handy skills like knitting and crocheting and some paper arts like quilling. I hope in the future to gain a teaching certificate so I can teach art </div>
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I will leave the blog up for anyone to use and if you want to see what I am up to I have created a new blog about my art endeavors called <a href="http://makingarteveryday.blogspot.com/">art365.blogspot.com</a> Stop by if you like. I won't be posting however until the fall.</div>
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While on the island the boys each made a hand drawn map of it and labeled the cities and places we went to. Then we printed a few of their favorite pictures to add to the notebook and labeled what they were.</div>
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When we returned we learned about chronology, or the study of sea shells so we took some of the shell we found on the beach and made our own chronology "box"</div>
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From our books we looked up the names and labeled each one. This is Zak's chronology box.</div>
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Then I found<a href="http://drawinglessonsfortheyoungartist.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-to-draw-monarch-butterfly-lesson.html"><span id="goog_1876804898"></span> this great website<span id="goog_1876804899"></span></a> with helpful instructions on how to draw different things. I think the boys did really well using these examples as guides. Above is Zak's Hermit cab, and below is Tj's.</div>
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Max did this awesome drawing of the octopus.</div>
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Now for more nature walks...</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Sarah</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111272029019104493.post-6701367417030119852014-01-10T14:53:00.002+03:002014-01-10T14:53:53.830+03:00Looking Back<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
As the new year was rolling around I began to think about when the boys were younger, and how far they have come in there 8 and 10 years of life. It does flit by so quickly and I am very glad I had taken pictures so I would not forget the details. I showed the picture to the boys and we laughed a lot and we cooed, well mostly I cooed at how cute they were. Looking at them back then has made my heart treasure them all the more and place my feet more firmly on the path we will travel this next year. </div>
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I thought you may like to see some of the pictures we have been reminiscing over. Beginning in 2005 when Max was born. He was early by 5 weeks as I had preeclampsia. He was born on Dec 19th 6 days before Christmas. In this picture my dh is feeding him with a prenatal bottle in the hospital where he stayed in ICU for 6 days while we watched to see if his temperature would stabilize so we could take him home. Isn't he adorable so small!</div>
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With Grandpa in the hospital days after he was born.</div>
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Max is 4 months old.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">2005 Zak and TJ are Born</span></div>
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Hoche Cave once inhabited by Portuguese Sailors</div>
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The infamous bottle tree.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A friend of mine sent me this recipe....it is one of our favorites</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Preserved Children</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Take one large field, half a dozen children, two or three small dogs, a pinch of brook and some pebbles. Mix the children and dogs well together; put them on the field, stirring constantly. Pour the brook over the pebble; sprinkle the field with flowers; spread over all a deep blue sky and bake in the sun. When brown, set away to cool in the bathroom.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Enjoy a few snapshots from our recent vacation....</span></div>
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On the last day of our week we have been being crafty in science, playing oceanography games and doing our nature notebooks. This first game was invented by Ellen McHenry the author of<a href="http://www.ellenjmchenry.com/homeschool-freedownloads/math-games/professorpigmath.php"> Professor Pigs Magic Math</a> which we did when the boys were about 6 years old. I am a big fan of Ellen's Inventive games and crafts. You will see more from her in just a minute. Best thing is she is offering all of them for FREE!</div>
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Max putting his first shark together.</div>
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Zak putting his first shark together.</div>
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Her <a href="http://www.ellenjmchenry.com/homeschool-freedownloads/lifesciences-games/paperclam.php">clam diagram</a> is brillant!</div>
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Zak drew this clever little drawing of our dog, Diamond.</div>
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This week we are wrapping up our painting skills lessons from <a href="http://www.currclick.com/product/24300/I-Can-Do-All-Things?it=1">I Can Do All Things art curriculum </a>which we began last year. I say painting skills because in this art lesson being creative was not our objective. The objectives were to learn the skills of painting such as mixing paints, wielding a brush, mixing colors, and planning what to paint first then second etc. I think this is an important first step to being able to create. They are a few of the foundations that one must master so that when the artist has a worthy idea it can be expressed as the artist wishes.<br />
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Each time we sat down to paint inevitably Zak would ask, "How do you make Green?" after three or four lessons it changed to "How do you make brown?" Now he can make any kind of green or brown that he wants. </div>
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Learning to wield a brush os not easy, it is different than the markers the boys are used to in that it is flexible and must be eloped with paint often. The boys became better at not scrubbing the brush, when loading it and when painting. They also learned how to move the brush to stay inside the lines. Some better and more patient than others but all in all they all improved in this. They also learned how to use the brush from the tip and how to move it t make different kinds of strokes.</div>
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They were always given red, blue, yellow, white and black to begin the paintings form there, they mixed what they needed.</div>
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Because we are painting a drawing already drawn for us the student can focus on the painting not the drawing part of making a picture beautiful. Each lesson picture once painted looks great so the student can feel good about his or her efforts.</div>
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The prescribed drawings were often looked at by the boys and they would exclaim, "I could never paint that!" but by breaking it down and learning maybe a new skill or two they were bale to do it. Thus the title of the curriculum is true, the body learned they CAN do ALL things.</div>
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During the lesson above with the clown the boys realized that planning what things to paint first or second or third would help them paint the picture better. So on this lesson we talked through why the eyes, eye brows, lips and all the details came out messy, and they learned that they must paint from the background to the foreground so the paint can overlap and leave clean lines.</div>
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Max did this painting and because he had learned how to plan what to paint first his flowers came out beautifully!</div>
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Our viking lapbooks created by us!</div>
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Max is putting the front cover together on a lap book we designed ourselves using bits and pieces of other lap books and images we found online or from Cd's we purchased.</div>
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This cover is made by TJ. All the covers were made by cutting off the bottom portion of the front flaps to make the sail. The viking hull and oars we adapted from <a href="http://www.crayola.co.uk/free-coloring-pages/print/viking-ship-coloring-page/">this make-it-yourself viking boat</a> pattern. We printed it on card stock and glued down only the bottom and the side edges so that it remained sort of a shallow pocket for the viking men to sit inside.<a href="http://homeschoolinthewoods.com/HTTA/PPS/TheMiddleAges.htm"> The shields </a>came from the viking boat we made in passport to the Middle ages ship last week, and the <a href="http://www.benscoloringpages.com/coloringpages/vikingwarrior.php">viking sailor is a coloring page</a> reduced to 40 percent when printed.</div>
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Max added the water below the boat on his lap book and TJ took his idea and made water on his as well. They each did the title a little differently.</div>
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Max's cover includes two cleverly hidden pockets to hide hidden treasure he says.</div>
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And Zak <a href="http://www.benscoloringpages.com/coloringpages/vikingwarrior.php">added three extra vikings</a> to his ship and used the black and yellow colors to make it look more fierce.</div>
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Detail of<a href="http://www.benscoloringpages.com/coloringpages/vikingwarrior.php"> Tj's Viking</a>.</div>
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Zak's viking men and viking mask.</div>
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TJ is working on his<a href="http://homeschoolinthewoods.com/HTTA/OldeWorldMaps.htm"> map</a> under the table. :)</div>
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The vikings are mostly known for their ship building, raiding and sailing so the map shows the travels of the vikings, and<a href="http://www.dynamic2moms.com/vikings.htm"> the larger flip book</a> on the right describes all the things vikings were most know for. <a href="http://www.dynamic2moms.com/vikings.htm">The smaller flip book </a>details things the vikings were less know for. Thus if you lift <a href="http://homeschoolinthewoods.com/HTTA/OldeWorldMaps.htm">the map</a> you will see more of those things.</div>
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When the map is lifted up there are more items; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vikings-Activity-British-Museum-Books/dp/071410549X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383625883&sr=8-1&keywords=viking+activity+book+british+museum">the viking alphabet</a>, <a href="http://homeschoolinthewoods.com/HTTA/GreatEmpires.htm">two recipe cards for barley bread and beef stew</a>, which slip down into <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vikings-Activity-British-Museum-Books/dp/071410549X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383625883&sr=8-1&keywords=viking+activity+book+british+museum">the long house</a>.</div>
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On the underside of the viking trading map is the term viking defined. and more info about who the vikings were.</div>
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(very similar to Lief the Lucky but a more complex story)</div>
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TJ's Viking longboat one of the souvenir crafts from stop #21.</div>
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TJ painting his viking longboat sail.</div>
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The back end of Zak's Viking longboat.</div>
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Max's Viking longboat dry docked on his loft bed self.</div>
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Front view of TJ's Viking long boat.</div>
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A close up of Zak's jousting mini book. The arm broke off but it should move up and down with a brad hinge and the knights face each other and can be slid forward to simulate a joust.</div>
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The inside of the jousting mini book</div>
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Max working on his jousting mini book.</div>
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Max's complete jousting mini book.</div>
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The boys have been getting postcards from historical figures like Alfred the Great and the Viking chief Rollo. They then illustrate the picture for the postcard. This is Max's postcard rack.</div>
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We have been painting and listening to Vivaldi's Four Seasons these past few weeks. I have always loved to paint, draw or create with music playing, so it was fun to do this with the boys for these lessons. They did a great job picking a theme to paint for each season and drawing the picture and painting it all by themselves. We began with Summer....</div>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Sarah</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111272029019104493.post-29586638318053705872013-10-01T13:56:00.001+03:002013-10-01T14:10:32.994+03:00Composer Study/Music LessonWe are getting know three composers this year, beginning with Vivaldi, then Pagani, and ending the year with Wagner. <a href="http://childlightusa.wordpress.com/category/composer-study/">This post by Jennifer Spencer</a> encouraged me very much last year and gives a wonderful explanation of how a composer study can help our children really connect with the composers and their music.<br />
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"First, in order to help my students form a relationship with the real person behind the music, I decide to only choose composers for whom there were living biographies available." -Jennifer Spencer<br />
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We have always loved Opal Wheeler's books as they give us a heart warming view of the composer as a child growing up which all children can connect with. This year I did not find a book by OW for Vivaldi but I did find one for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Paganini-Master-Strings-Opal-Wheeler/dp/161006013X/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1380623281&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=paganini+wheeler">Pagnini</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Richard-Wagner-Opal-Wheeler/dp/1610060113/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1380623321&sr=1-1&keywords=wagner+wheeler">Wagner</a>. Our living story about Vivaldi will be from the Vox Master collection of CD stories. This one is called The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Vivaldi-Corelli-Words-Music/dp/B000001KD5">Stories of Vivladi and Corelli.</a><br />
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"The decision to study one work for the term instead of sampling songs or movements from different works was made as a kind of experiement. I based it on the desire to connect with the ideas through the narrative." -Jennifer Spencer<br />
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We decided to study Vivaldi's Four Season this term, Another from Paganini next term and one from Wagner the following term. I am not as musical as Jennifer is but we are listening to the music with the idea that there are picture or ideas to be out into our minds. For the four seasons we listened all the way through the entire piece as the boys played quietly with their toys. Then during the following weeks we have been painting a season picture to go with the music. Here is an example of summer by Zak.<br />
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We do this lesson twice a week so we spend about three months with each composer. We also add each composer to our <a href="http://homeschoolinthewoods.com/HTTA/AP/Composers.htm">composer lapbook</a> we started two years ago.<br />
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If time allows we also enjoy <a href="http://www.classicalkidsnfp.org/">Classical Kids musical dramas</a>. This year we hope to find time for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Vivaldis-Ring-Mystery-Classical-Kids/dp/1894502744/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1380624771&sr=1-2-fkmr0&keywords=Vivladi%27s+ring+of+mystery+classical+kids">Vivaldi's Ring of Mystery</a>.<br />
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That concludes our music appreciation lesson which I teach, then every afternoon my dh gives piano lessons, each of our guys gets two lessons a week.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Sarah</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111272029019104493.post-60712988798148439562013-09-30T12:10:00.004+03:002013-10-06T08:48:16.481+03:00Character LessonI have put off doing this Charlotte Mason suggested lesson in the past because I just could not figure out a way to teach it in a way that agrees with me. Character studies can become tools with which to regularly be pointing out where we go wrong, it can be discouraging and self focusing. It is often a place where we look at the glass half empty and forget all that has been given to us. However, on the flip side I have always felt that this particular lesson "could be" a wonderful way to inspire my children to nobler and better deeds. Until now I have not discovered just how to teach it so it brings hope and freedom and not condemnation.<br />
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Let me explain my approach first with an example. Years ago I ran into an old friend and she and I were discussing a new diet method we had heard had helped many to lose the unwanted weight, fat. The diet begins with eating a specially designed nugget at different times a day. This nugget seemed to trigger the body to lose weight effortlessly and when you get to your ideal weight you stop eating this nugget and begin to eat real food and in moderation. You see you are set free from your weight, then you are encouraged to begin a healthy approach to eating diet.<br />
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Character study can be like most diets to lose weight, you first work to get rid of the weight then you rest, while the diet my friend and I were discussing sought to rid you of the weight then you work to keep it off. See the difference. In one approach you have the thin body you want so you appreciate the freedom from your excess weight and in turn this gratitude can lead to a willingness to do some work to keep it that way. In the other approach you are still burdened by more weight than you want or need hoping your hard work will make you thin.<br />
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When I was listening to my friend describe this new diet it reminded me of the freedom and hope I have as a Christian. You see I have been freed from the power of sin much the same way the diet freed those who tired it of the burden of weight. Because Jesus died 2,000 years ago and paid for all our sins it has nothing to do with my own efforts aside from the fact it will not be manifested in my life unless I believe it and try it out and see that it is so. Jesus's death set me free from God's wrath and the need to be righteous on my own, much the same ay that the diet nugget sent messages to my body to drop the weight, it was effortless. In short, I am already clean and made new, I have dropped the extra weight. Because Jesus not only died but rose again, I have a new life, a life free of the extra weight of sin. So I can begin my day free and with ample power to do what is right. This is what I want my kids to know. I want them to realize what a trust in Jesus can do for them and how this trust can build in them character that is worth having.<br />
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So when we read the morally sound stories that inspire in us to nobel deeds and to honor and we talk about what good character qualities the characters possesses we remind ourselves that we have a way to obtain those traits too because of Jesus's victory for us on the cross. We also discuss how we could fail like many of the characters in our stories if we fail to believe we are free and have the power to resist or overcome the temptations in the world around us to be lazy or greedy etc. We remind ourselves also that Jesus's gift of salvation we have received is also a gift to have the power to please God and live right here on earth. Somehow it is easier to remain free than to try to get free. If we are already free what could make us more free? Somehow the appreciation of knowing our burden has been taken from us makes us feel we never want to go back.<br />
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There is no absolute proof that Jesus's death 2,000 years ago has set us free from sin but when we face the decision daily to chose to believe it we are learning to receive by faith what is right, noble and true as our own. We find it is possible to be noble and honorable. In so doing our faith in this truth is proved true time and again. The things we once believed had us bound to bad habits of wrong doing we are seeing are simply not that powerful and in truth they are really just lies we are learning not to believe.<br />
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We have two books we are reading through twice week; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Created-Work-Practical-Insights-Young/dp/1883934117/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1380527618&sr=8-1&keywords=created+for+work">Created for work by Bob Shultz</a> and The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-of-Virtues-ebook/dp/B003L77VHO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1380527677&sr=8-1&keywords=the+book+of+virtues+by+william+bennett">Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett</a>. I read from each of these books once a week then we narrate the chapter or stories and have the grand discussion about the ideas we found in them. In this discussion we talk about the truths I wrote about above. It is where we talk about our own lives and how we can apply the truth that we are free to do good, and that we have the power to do good. It is where we do not rely upon our own efforts to be good but remember Jesus's promise to be with us always. We discuss how we can include him more in our daily lives. We lean upon HIM for our goodness and worthy and virtuous traits. This lesson is simple but the discussions will last for a long time in our hearts. There are no lists, or reminders to be posted on the bathroom mirrors we simply invite Jesus to live with us in every moment and we drink in the ideas strewn about in the atmosphere of learning that has been carefully cultivated.<br />
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For further discussion on this topic I found Nancy Kelly's article entitled <a href="http://childlightusa.wordpress.com/2013/10/05/the-habits-pendulum-by-nancy-kelly/#comment-2221">The Habits Pendulum </a>inspiring and enlightening.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Sarah</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111272029019104493.post-541569725258478342013-09-27T12:23:00.001+03:002013-09-30T10:06:03.237+03:00Science Lesson<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Much to Max's Sheer delight our science topic this year just happens to be Oceanography his FAVORITE thing in the whole world. What a pleasure to teach something you can see someone simply drinks in every little thing you do. His appetite for anything science is voracious but he has a special love for all things regarding the sea. The twins can take or leave this class loving all things weapon, and war but they get plenty of that in our history lessons. This lesson is where Max thrives.</div>
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We are using a book from the Young Explorers Series by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Creation-Zoology-Educational-Ministries/dp/1932012737/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1380273776&sr=8-1&keywords=swimming+creatures+of+the+fifth+day+exploring+creation+with+zoology+2">Jeannie Albright: Swimming Creatures of the Fifth Day</a>. For the first time since buying her books I am going to follow her straight through with only a few extra additions of living books where I have them and they fit in. Following can be boring and often the text in a given curricula just doesn't fit our plan but this year it does and I am not bored one bit I am enjoying the relaxation of letting another plan, research and deliver the lesson. She is by the way an excellent author and the text always gives glory to God which I appreciate. She includes so many fun and I must say simple experiments that the boys can do to understand more completely the sea creatures we are learning about.<br />
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I have laid out her chapters into individual lessons so I knew where the extra things I wanted to include could fit in and so I can know we will fit it all into the school year and at what pace we will be taking the readings and activities/experiments. Below is part of plan so you can get an idea how it works for us. We have a science lesson 5 days a week but the lessons vary so you will see.<br />
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<b>ECWZ Ch 1: Aquatic Animals Pg 1-7 narrate</b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
<i>Activity: Ocean Box </i></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
hands on</div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
1</div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: right;">
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<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
<i>Experiment: cold and hot water</i></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
hands on</div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
1</div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>BSBFC: ch. 1 -3 narrate</b></span></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
book</div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
1</div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
<b>Chapter 2: Whales</b></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
<b>ECWZ Ch. 2 Whales pg. 19-28</b></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
spine</div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
2</div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
<i>Activity: megaphone pg. 28</i></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
hands on</div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
1</div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
<b>ECWZ Ch2.: Whales Pg. 29-32</b></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
spine</div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
1</div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
<i>Activity: freezing water pg. 32</i></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
hands on</div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
1</div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
<b>ECWZ Ch. 2 Whales pg. 33-39</b></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
spine</div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
1</div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
<i>Activity: sound through water pg. 39-40 / put a whale in your ocean box</i></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
hands on</div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
1</div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>BSBFC: ch. 3-6 narrate</b></span></div>
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spine</div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
1</div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
<i>Dolphin Adventure</i></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
book</div>
</td>
<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
1</div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border-color: #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb #cbcbcb; border-style: solid; border-width: 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px 1.0px; padding: 0.0px 5.0px 0.0px 5.0px;" valign="middle"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; min-height: 13px; text-align: right;">
<br /></div>
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In chapter one we began making our "ocean Boxes" but our idea was more of an "ocean board." We made wave shaped stamps from foam sheets and printed many waves onto a large cardboard board, then the boys added a cloud and a sun. Each chapter we select a sea animal and color it and place it onto the board. We just did the chapter on whales so that is all they have on their boards so far. By the end of the year it will be full of sea creatures they know.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Sarah</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111272029019104493.post-4045072924871656642013-09-21T12:18:00.000+03:002013-09-21T12:18:10.774+03:00Latin LessonLatin is a breeze this year as I am letting Duane do the lessons via the <a href="http://store.compasscinema.com/categories.php?category=Visual-Latin">Visual Latin</a> curriculum. Duane is a guy and that is a huge benefit as the boys relate to him far better than myself or another lady. It says something subtle and that is that Latin is for men. He is also silly and though his lessons are sound and clear they are fun for the boys. The lessons also fit into Charlotte Mason's principles of short, 20 minute lessons. Whether we are watching the DVD or doing the worksheets they never take much longer than 20 minutes. So it is easy, fun, meaty and we all are loving it.<br />
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Our lesson plans look like this:<br />
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Day 1: Lesson 1: grammar video with Duane<br />
Day 2: Lesson 1: grammar worksheet reviewing the video lesson the day before<br />
Day 3: Lesson 1: Sentence Video with Duane<br />
Day 4: Lesson 1: Sentence Worksheet reviewing what we learned in the video the day before.<br />
Day 5: Lesson 1: Reading Video with Duane<br />
Day 6: Lesson 1: Reading worksheet reviewing what we heard in the video the day before.<br />
Day 7: Review all three videos<br />
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Before I made the switch to <a href="http://store.compasscinema.com/categories.php?category=Visual-Latin">Visual Latin</a> I had planned to continue on with the second edition of Minimus called Secondus. I had purchased the text for the boys and the teacher text for me, but somewhere along the way I lost it. When I went to begin planning for it I did not have it any more. I did have the Visual Latin DVD's and worksheets and as I looked at it I thought the boys would do better with this curriculum this year anyway and I sure liked the idea of having one less lesson to plan each day. I am so glad it turned out the way it did. If I ever find the Secondus I suppose I resell it, it is still in my humble opinion a fun way to learn latin.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Sarah</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111272029019104493.post-83238770771860496182013-09-20T15:18:00.002+03:002013-09-22T10:50:36.877+03:00Language Arts Lessons We try to adhere to the simplicity of <a href="http://simplycharlottemason.com/store/hearing-and-reading-telling-and-writing-a-charlotte-mason-language-arts-handbook/">Charlotte Mason's idea about language arts</a> which leans heavily on narration and on copywork. By using CM's method language arts can spill over into many subjects as reading and writing are the primary tools in education, however, we also have specific skill building lesson to keep these tools sharp and ready for use. Handwriting, reading practice, and phonics we do in the morning just after breakfast in our Three R's Rotation.<br />
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<u>Handwriting: </u>We are transitioning from print to cursive. After doing some cursive only last year and seeing the boys missing some fundamental things I thought this book would help them see the little bits more clearly as well as to review each letter individually. I also like the Proverbs so <a href="http://simplycharlottemason.com/store/print-to-cursive-proverbs/">Print to Cursive Proverbs</a> was a great fit for us. The boys copy the proverb in print one day and then copy the cursive letters one by one in context of the verse. They also practice other words using that letter. As one letter is introduce every other day they get a good chance to copy and read the letter in in all the positions, first, middle and at the end of a word.<br />
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<u>Phonics:</u> We are still using a phonics book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Phonics-Pathways-Reading-Perfect-Spelling/dp/1118022432/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379834867&sr=1-1&keywords=phonics+pathways">Phonics Pathways</a>. Seems we use a different one each year. I have been puzzling over why the boys simply don't seem to assimilate and use the phonics they have learned. They still struggle to know when to when to use the silent e rule etc. But I am learning to be content with slow progress and they are getting better and better at reading each year. I take them through a 5 minute lesson every day and then as they are reading or doing other things highlight that lesson in their real life language usage. Hope this gets it more home. I often wonder if it just isn't something they care about or their minds don't need this information just now, so it keeps getting set aside. One day as we continue to add this knowledge to their icebergs of knowledge it may come to the surface.<br />
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<u>Reading:</u> I don't know why we did this but we are reading through five different books one each day of the week. The books are very similar in difficulty and content so it doesn't seem to break continuity of we read three pages from one book, set it aside until the next week and pick up the next book to read three pages from it. The boys are reading the passages out loud to me as I work in the kitchen. I do very little monitoring except to be close at hand to correct a lazy reading or to help them when they get stuck on a new or difficult word. Mostly I am letting them be alone with their book and learn to develop strategies for working out how to read new words using the rules or knowledge they already have, ON THEIR OWN. They are enjoying this. I let many mistakes go by but in the end they have been stopping themselves to make it right as they want to know what the books is saying. What will happen next? This is why I love to read, and it has motivated me to read harder and harder books so I can get the knowledge out of them or to know about the people in them or how the story will end. </div>
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After each reading I get to hear from them what they story was about. This is narration. We also do narration from book I read aloud to them in other subjects like history or literature, but they do very good narrations from reading to themselves too. In the future they will be doing more and more of this as their reading ability increases.</div>
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These are the books the boys chose to read from, you can find them all at <a href="http://www.yesterdaysclassics.com/">Yesterday's Classics</a> or Amazon.com. ( From left to right: The Sandman His House Stories, Rollo At Work, Rollo at Play, The Sandman more farm Stories, The Sandman His Farm Stories.)</div>
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Two days a week we also do a lesson from our <a href="http://simplycharlottemason.com/store/spelling-wisdom/">Spelling Wisdom</a> book. Spelling wisdom simply puts spelling words into a sentence which can be prepared by the student ahead of time for a<a href="http://simplycharlottemason.com/basics/started/charlotte-mason-method/"> dictation</a>. By following the course Sonya has developed you will learn the basic spelling words but with an idea attached. Brilliant! and so much easier to remember than the old fashioned spelling list. We just began Spelling Wisdom this year so we are on book one. Also since the spelling wisdom gives the boys adequate dictation practice I skip the dictation exercises in Primary language lessons when they occur in the book.</div>
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Tales From Shakespeare by Charles Lamb</div>
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Ou Island Saints by Amy Steedman</div>
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The Lantern Bearer by Rosemary Sutcliff</div>
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Adam of The Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray</div>
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The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien</div>
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Traditional Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens</div>
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Rolf and the Viking Bow by Allen French</div>
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The Viking Adventure</div>
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Princess Adeline by Julie Sutter</div>
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Stories of Beowulf</div>
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Monk's Hood by Ellis Peters</div>
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A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters</div>
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One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters</div>
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Knight of the White Cross by GA Henty</div>
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle</div>
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Selections from: Anderson's Fairy Tales</div>
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Selections from: Grimm's Fairy Tales</div>
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We have arrived at the Story of Saint Patrick in our history readings so even though it isn't St. Patricks day (march 17th) we idd a lapbook about Saint Patrick and some of the ideas that go along with the March 17th celebration.</div>
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Apparently we have the old out dated cover image. If you checked out the link to The Story of the Middle Ages you can see that it has been redone. I think I like our old version better. One of the best aspects of this book is the suggested book list in the back. It suggests living books that fit in with the story of the Middle Ages narrative. It also give you an idea just where they go in the flow of the historical story. So by using this suggested book list I was able gather together relevant living books and plan them out with the spine readings, and with the help of the <a href="http://simplycharlottemason.com/store/planning-your-charlotte-mason-education/">SCM panner</a>, I know it will all fit into the school year. Yeah!</div>
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Below is a portion of my master list of books and where they fit into the spine. I have not stuck to the 20 minute lessons here as my boys can absorb more so my readings are a bit lengthy. It is working for us but it may not work for you. See for yourself, maybe you can do more. :) I also supplement with audio books when I need a break. See my other post on the ones I <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6111272029019104493#editor/target=post;postID=9175076123214567418;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=6;src=postname">found for free at Librivox</a>.</div>
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<b>SOTMA: Europe Long Ago-Ceasar in Gaul and Britain (one lesson)</b></div>
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<b>SOTMA: Europe under the Romans-The 1st Martyrs (one lesson)</b></div>
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In God's Garden by Amy Steedman(7 lessons/days)*</div>
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<b>SOTMA: The Patron Saint of France- The Early Germans (one lesson)</b></div>
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Children of Odin by Padraic Colum (portions of it in 3 lessons)</div>
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<b>SOTMA: How the Franks Came into Gaul-The first Kings (one lesson)</b></div>
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The White Stag by Kate Seredy(two lessons)</div>
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<b>SOTMA: Theodoric and Ostrogoth-The Bishop of Ireland (one lesson)</b></div>
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Our Island Saints by Amy Steedman chapter on St. Patrick begin lap book (two lessons)</div>
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Lantern bearer by Rosemary Sutcliff (11 lessons)</div>
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<b>SOTMA: The Anglo Saxons-King Arthur (one lesson)</b></div>
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King Arthur by Howard Pyle (five lessons)</div>
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<b>SOTMA: The story of St. Augustine (one lesson)</b></div>
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Augustine came to Kent by Barbara Willard (six lessons)</div>
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<b>* If the book has 14 chapters in it like In God's Garden, it will take 7 lessons/days to complete the book if I can read two chapters/saint stories a day. Some books will be shorter or longer so the days it will take to read each one is different.</b> </div>
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Following is the rest of the list of living books we plan to use for History. </div>
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Son of Charlemagne by Barbara Willard</div>
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Story of Roland for Children by H.E. Marshall</div>
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Castle by David MaCaulay</div>
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DK: Castle at War </div>
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Castle Diary by Richard Platt</div>
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Vikings by Janeway</div>
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The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow by Allen French</div>
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The Viking adventure by Clyde Robert Bulla</div>
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Leif the Lucky by Ingri and Edgar D'Aulaire</div>
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Dragon and the Raven by G.A. Henty</div>
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Illuminations by Hunt</div>
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Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge</div>
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Cathedral by David MaCaulay</div>
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If All The Swords in England by Barbara Willard</div>
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Winning His Spurs by G. A. Henty</div>
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Magna Charta by James Daugherty</div>
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In Freedom's Cause by G.A. henry</div>
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Otto if the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle</div>
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The Apple and the Arrow by Mary and Conrad Buff</div>
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The Door in the Wall by</div>
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St. George for England by G. A. Henty</div>
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Canterbury Tales by Barbara Cohen Illustrated by Trina Hyman (a favorite illustrator of mine)</div>
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Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley<br />
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You may have observed as you read through the list that some classic books noted to be good for this time period like Robin Hood and Adam of the Road are missing. I have scheduled them into our literature readings instead of our history lesson and they should correspond also with the flow of history as it moves through time in the middle ages. </div>
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Passport through the Middle Ages is something we do on project day which is the last day of our week. Project day was instigated last year because we love hands on activities but we also value the simplicity of Charlotte Mason's methods. One thing I wanted to make time for in our school week was to include more living books to fill them with ideas, "a banquet of mind food", and I also wanted to limit our hands-on work so we could practice narration which stimulates the mind to work on the ideas gained instead of and activity which may or may not accomplish this. So Project day is the sixth day in our week and it is where we do the fun activities, games etc. that we enjoy without losing the great advantage of sticking closely to a CM method during the week.</div>
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This is TJ's notebook where he keeps his passport notebooking type activities. </div>
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Sample of one of their notebooking pages describing the different class levels in the Middle Ages. </div>
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Here is Max's passport to travel into the Middle Ages. </div>
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Each week I also read from a tour guide about that particular time in history, it sets the stage for the activities. Sometimes there are audio tours as well as the readings. This last week we listened as a reporter interviewed different people about their role in the Medieval class structure.</div>
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Now and then we get postcards from historical people telling us about the event in history where they played a part. The boys then illustrate the front of the post card and place into their post card rack.</div>
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There will be recipes to make, things to make like a castle out of sugar cubes and a Robinhood hat. We will also learn about every aspect of Medieval life. More about all that as we go along. I also have found oodles of wonderful you tube videos that go along nicely with each weeks readings and activities which I will be showing the boys each project day. </div>
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<b>NOTE:</b> M<i>any of the titles below are not suitable for children. We got around this by downloading the video and editing it in a editing program. Then we can be sure they boys get the content that is worthwhile for them at this age.</i></div>
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BBC Rise and Fall of Rome Series</div>
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History Channel's "The Dark Ages"</div>
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Merchant of Venice</div>
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Terry Jones Medieval Lives: The Peasant</div>
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Medieval Warfare: Castle at War</div>
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History Channel's : "The Real Vikings"</div>
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Terry Jones Medieval Lives: The Monk</div>
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History Channel's "The Plague"</div>
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El Cid</div>
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When I say that they love the math it isn't that we never have tears or they are never frustrated, because we do have tears and frustration. Often the work is simply hard and long from their point of view. We still assign only what can be done in 20 minutes. Short lessons to keep the attention. But when all is said and done they feel they are "getting it". My dh is a wonderful math teacher and the Saxon math curriculum is very well laid out adding precept upon precept which appeals to the boys. So when I asked them if they liked our new text book for math they all shouted, "we love it!"</div>
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We are finding more chameleons since our cat has passed away. This is a small male one. Love his bright colors.</div>
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Our new puppy, his name is diamond.</div>
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There are three parts to our art lesson this year. Art skills, Art history, and Art Appreciation. Our Artist Study this year is centered around just one artist Giotto Di Bondone. We will be at times looking at some of the other famous artist of the Medieval times like Cimbaque Giotto's teacher, but mostly we will be studying Giotto. I spent a entire term at University doing an art history course on Giotto's Chapel in Scrovegni and I am excited to share this wonderful artist with my boys. So we will be reading about Giotto and the world he lived in and looking at his many many paintings and sculptures. We will also be improving our won art skill once a week by learning more about painting with tempera paints and water colors.<br />
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<u>Art skills</u> is something I believe every child can develop. Like any other skill some take to it more readily than others but all can learn to mix paint, hold a brush and draw what they see. All can make art. Each week we have been doing a painting lesson out of the wonderful text by Barry Stebbing called<a href="http://www.currclick.com/product/24300/I-Can-Do-All-Things?it=1"> I Can Do All Things</a>. This is our study in mixing different blues and using them in the dolphin drawing.<br />
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I am using a large picture book entitled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Giotto-Medieval-Art-lives-artists/dp/0872263150/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377364267&sr=8-1&keywords=Masters+of+art+Giotto+and+medieval+art">Masters of art: Giotto and Medieval Art</a> as my spine for the year in our <u>Art History lesson</u> and adding to it<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Giotto-Tended-Sheep-Sybil-Deucher/dp/B00085HJ4C/ref=sr_1_73?ie=UTF8&qid=1377364668&sr=8-73&keywords=Opal+Wheeler"> Giotto Tended the Sheep</a> by Opal Wheeler for our back ground info about the artist. Sister Wendy also does a wonderful you tube introducing Giotto in her series called <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHzvbQ26q7Q">The Story of Painting</a>. (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEoJDlKCEf8">part 2 "The hero steps forth is about Giotto</a>) and Madeline L'Engle has put together a beautiful book entitled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Glorious-Impossible-Illustrated-Frescoes-Scrovegni/dp/0671686909/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377364428&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Glorious+Impossible">The Glorious Impossible</a> but we will use this book more in our art appreciation lessons than here in the art history lesson.<br />
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Our <u>Art Appreciation lessons</u> are mostly picture studies, but sometimes we will do a hands on project to help us further understand the art in Giotto's time and how he made his art on frescoes and with egg tempera paint etc. I am using Simply Charlotte Masons <a href="http://simplycharlottemason.com/store/picture-study-portfolios/">Picture Study Portfolio</a> and Madeline L'Engle's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Glorious-Impossible-Illustrated-Frescoes-Scrovegni/dp/0671686909/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377364428&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Glorious+Impossible">The Glorious Impossible</a>, and there is a wonderful collection of Giotto's work online <a href="http://www.giottodibondone.org/#">here</a> that allows you to see the paintings as a slide show.<br />
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This is the first year we actually have a subject on the schedule called Geography. We do this subject three days a week for about 1/2 of an hour each lesson, so it is not a huge time commitment but it is fun! Maybe it's fun because it is Europe we are studying or perhaps it is just that maps can be a beautiful thing to learn.</div>
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Our lessons are varied but regular and we all are loving this. </div>
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The <u>first lesson of the week</u> is a read-a-loud lesson. This year I will be reading from <a href="http://www.mainlesson.com/displayauthor.php?author=perkins">Lucy Fitch Perkins Twins Stories</a>. We plan to read the following twins stories this year:</div>
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The Belgium Twins</div>
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The<u> Second Lesson of the week</u> is adding pages to our country book one week and a short half hour to an hour long you tube about the country the next week. Here are a few you tubes I m=have bookmarked to choose from.</div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUwNOYGo_pA">Austria</a> (Part 1/6) Each part os about 10 minutes</div>
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England:<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ95nDcVeL8"> Oxford</a>/ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuEsxHT-62I">London Bridges</a>/<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=691z6a9bnNU"> Hampton Court</a>/<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWQn4fpkFME"> Villages</a>/ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qDpQdv7ZUc">Berkeley Estate</a> less than 10 min. ea.</div>
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France: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb6K0T-b92o">travel by train</a>(10 min)/<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7VY6_ADAEw">A trip to Paris</a>(10 min)/<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H56mrAemkHY">Visit France</a> (23 min)</div>
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Spain: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdrvHyD8mOQ">Village</a> (6 min.) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JClnp_hjpI">Sister Wendy in Madrid</a> (9 min.)<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJjZ0SwQAOY"> Taste of the Sea made in Spain</a> (24 min.)</div>
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Gaudi's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbAPjKMgf8g">Barcelona</a></div>
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Sweeden: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpISezPZB0k">The Real Stockholm</a> 1/2(10 min.)</div>
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The pages for our country book include a <a href="http://www.thehomeschoolshop.com/sh-geoscribe.htm">notebooking page on the country</a> we are focusing on, other cool icons like the Belgium coat of arms below that we found online when we researched about Belgium and a <a href="http://homeschoolinthewoods.com/HTTA/OldeWorldMaps.htm">map drill page</a>. The cover I designed myself in Publisher. We bound our book together with the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/GBC-ProClick-Desktop-Binding-Machine/dp/B00006IAS3/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377165853&sr=8-1&keywords=pro+click+binder">Pro-Click Binder</a>.</div>
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<b><u>Lesson one:</u></b> With a blank map and a map with labels, practice finding Belgium on the blank map. color it in and copy it's name. Memorize how to spell it. Add all the flag labels to the large, colored map of Europe. (includes 20 countries and three seas) </div>
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<b><u>Lesson two:</u> </b>Add Belgium to a new blank map without looking. Color it in and spell it correctly. Then,<b> p</b>ractice finding Austria on the same map but now using the map with the titles. Color it in and copy the name learning to spell it correctly. Add all the flag labels to the large, colored map of Europe.</div>
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Sometimes we play games like the one below, <a href="http://www.ellenjmchenry.com/homeschool-freedownloads/geographymaps-games/vikingvoyagesgame.php">Viking Voyages</a>, on project day, the last day of the week. Viking Voyages is a FREE game you can download, paint, and tape together your self. My boys helped me make this game.</div>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Sarah</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111272029019104493.post-59396901862025752842013-08-13T21:02:00.001+03:002013-08-13T21:02:38.658+03:00Finally Ending and Barely BeginningWell I have had a huge break from blogging this spring and summer, but that doesn't mean that we have not been hitting the books and doing some school now that we are home. We have been home for a few months. We have been wrapping up our year three which is centered around the study of Ancient Greece and Rome. Thus the toga party last week and the silly pictures of the boys in their togas and tunics.<br />
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We did a little unit about Picasso which does not do the artist justice but it was all we had and every little bit counts. Now I bet when they see his work out in real life they will know recognize it and now a little about this interesting artist. Following is a snapshot with of some of our projects in it.</div>
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Well we are done with year 3 and already midway through our first week of year 4 knee deep in Tales from Shakespeare, Visual Latin, Paddle to the Sea, Stories from the Middle Ages, the map of Europe and more. Below is Max doing a map drill with our enlarged old style map of Europe from Homeschool in the Woods.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Sarah</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111272029019104493.post-91750761232145674182013-07-30T21:30:00.000+03:002013-07-31T23:10:03.140+03:00FREE Medieval Audio Resources<a href="http://librivox.org/">Librivox.org</a> has oodles of great audio books for free, but up to now I have used them only occasionally. In the past I have been spoiled and was able to buy professionally produced audio recordings however, this spring as we traveled around the NW in our car we really enjoyed listening to <a href="http://librivox.org/white-fang-by-jack-london/">White Fang by Jack London</a> which I had downloaded from <a href="http://librivox.org/">Librivox.org</a> and burned to a CD so we could listen to it in the car while we drove back and forth from swimming lessons and home, to the coast for a field trip etc. The boys 'drank it to the dregs,' so to speak and never missed all the fancy audio drama etc. Seems well written books all by themselves really do feed the mind.<br />
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Since that experience this spring I decided to venture out into the freebie audio resources this year to save a little money and to have more great stories to 'strew' about the house for the out of lessons hours that make up our day. (I feel better about a free CD getting accidentally scratched or broken than one I paid over $20 for. ) I have been busy lately downloading some of these public domain audio books to supplement our Medieval History and literature. We will be using <a href="http://www.nothingnewpress.com/books/guerbers-histories/">The Story of the Middle Ages</a> published by Nothing New Press for our spine next year, which I have loved ever since I first saw them four years ago. One of the reasons why I love these books so much is the recommended reading list at the back of the book. It is an extensive reading list advising what books would enhance the stories of the middle ages which H. A. Gruber wrote and also when to read/use them so it all flows by in chronological order. I love it!<i> </i><br />
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This spring we were not at home, so homeschool took on an 'on-the-road,' loose sort of a look. I loved it! We did spontaneous things and less seat work. We were in the outdoors more (when it wasn't raining) which was therapeutic for us all. This kind of change in schedule satisfied the fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants longings I have when I do execute a well planned day. Well this spring I got my freedom, for a time, and actually some good things came out of it.<br />
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I am posting today about one activity that I initiated but became kid driven as we went along. It began with a bird book and time to look outside. I purchased this <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Birdwatchers-Book-Stickers-Childrens/dp/0486410595/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1373887432&sr=8-4&keywords=bird+sticker+book">beginning bird watchers book</a> with stickers. I know it isn't a "real" nature journal like we usually try to accomplish at home, but it did accomplish something our 'real' nature journal making has not yet done....my boys asked to do it and got out their books on their own to do it.<br />
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My guess is that they felt confident that they could wield this tool of observation and the 'real' nature journal entries we have been doing are still beyond them skill wise. The skill they have not yet acquired with ease is drawing and handwriting. Just about the entire 'real' nature journal entry activity is either drawing or handwriting. They will most likely catch on later as their fine motor skills develop but for now the sticker book was just within their grasp so they used it. You know something is working because your children will use again and again. They will drain it to the dregs if it is the right tool for them.<br />
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They were not allowed to simply put the stickers onto the birds as they liked it was a unsaid rule that they must have seen the bird and had someone witness that they saw it. SO they began a sort of guy like competition to see who can spot more birds than the other. Typical. I love it when their 'boyness' really accelerates their learning because there are so many times when the 'schoolish' type things simply do not appeal to boys and thus make it seem they are just not so bright. But now in the wild they can hunt down birds and add a sticker and they could do it faster than the next guy. Enthralling.<br />
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They would often beg for help to fill out the info about the birds because THEY WANTED TO KNOW more about the bird they had found. They had developed a connection or relation to the birds. It was fun for them to add in the sticker, learn more about the bird they saw and of course be first. I know this is not to be encouraged in a CM approach but I have yet found it detrimental to learning. There needs to be obvious sportsmanship rules but all in all I have found that good competition is healthy for boys. Also my boys are all within 1 1/2 years of each other with the oldest being 9 and the twins being 7 so there is room to spur one another on and it is truly a fair fight to the finish.<br />
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One activity that we did near the beginning turned out well indeed. I purchased a<a href="http://www.dickblick.com/products/van-aken-plastalina-modeling-clay/"> high quality molding clay</a> in lots of fun bright colors. It is the kind of clay that never dries so you can reuse it again and again. It just gets better with time. However looking back maybe it would have worked better had we used an oven bake clay like FIMO because then they could have kept each bird they made.<br />
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We created several clay models of our birds but these are the only pics that survived some how. RATS! At first we tried going 3-D but that wasn't happening so the boys ended up making 2-D relief like images of the blue jays they saw in the park. The colors were very rewarding to work with and the way the clay moves in your hands makes working with it for beginners simple and successful. We still have the bags of clay at my mom's house which we can use again for another project. I love it how a simple resource like clay can become so many things over time.<br />
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We don't aways do education on the road or away from home and in the way we did this Spring but it worked for us for that season of the year. I have many happy memories of the lessons we did and the things we learned. It was truly relaxing. Maybe we can learn something from it too and let our children wiled appropriate tools so they can really do the learning for themselves without us grown ups always telling them how to do it.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Sarah</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111272029019104493.post-81146673419510568462013-05-29T21:48:00.001+03:002013-05-29T22:01:07.515+03:00Modern Parables <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I just had the pleasure of viewing the parable called "The Sower," it is just one of the parables in the Modern Parables series from <a href="http://www.compassclassroom.com/modern-parables/overview/">Compass Classroom</a>. First off this is a great parable and one I have heard preached on often, so I was curious to see how Compass Cinema would tell the story and make it more understandable to our modern day life.<br />
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In the first of the two videos in this story "The Sower" I was introduced to a veteran farmer as he explained how he has sown and grown wheat for the past 30 years. He showed us how he sows the grain straight out of a bag onto the soil, why there are weeds in the fields and how it chokes out the grains of wheat as they grow and much more. I know very little about growing wheat unlike those who first heard the parable when Jesus told it in the Bible. Knowing little about the growing of wheat can diminish the power of the story. So I loved learning about this and my kids did too when I showed it to them later. Seeing the path, the weeds the field does bring the story closer to home, I can see the story and the meaning clearer than when I had heard the story so many times before. I was impressed. Way to go Compass Cinema. I'll pass this gem along to my friends.<br />
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While watching I was realizing the reality of the grain field and who it grows and marveled again at how beautifully Jesus used this everyday knowledge to explain the Kingdom of God. I am so glad there is such a tool out there to share these parables with my children.<br />
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The second part of the Sower video package was an explanation from a pastor as he revisited parts of the story and explained the deeper biblical message the Jesus was using the everyday elements to explain. This was done clearly, succinctly and powerfully. My kids were not bored.<br />
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I loved this introduction to the <a href="http://store.compasscinema.com/products.php?product=Modern-Parables-%7C-Group-Study-DVD-Set">Modern Parables Collection</a> at <a href="http://store.compasscinema.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=109">Compass Classroom</a> and look forward to viewing more. There are six<a href="http://www.compassclassroom.com/modern-parables/list-of-lessons/"> parables or twelve lessons</a> in all.<br />
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<a href="http://store.compasscinema.com/products.php?product=Modern-Parables-%7C-Hidden-Treasure-%5BDVD%5D">The Hidden Treasure (lesson 1&2)</a><br />
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<a href="http://store.compasscinema.com/products.php?product=Modern-Parables-%7C-Prodigal-Sons-%5BDVD%5D">The Prodigal Son (lesson 11&12)</a><br />
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I think our family is going to enjoy watching these over and over again. Thanks Compass Cinema a job well done!<br />
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