It has been an incredible week! I have just returned from a Science Retreat and my mind is still trying to wrap itself around the experience.

A post about it will come later this week, in a few weeks, so until then please check out our weekly schedule.

Ambleside Online is our primary curriculum, we are currently in week 29.

Click on images of text to go to Google Book.

History

• Viking Tales: Olaf’s Fight with Havard
• An Island Story: More About Alfred the Great
• Buffalo Bill by Ingri Parim D’aulaire 

 

Literature

• Aesop’s Fables: The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
• Aesop’s Fables: The Milkmaid and her Pail
• Shakespeare: King Lear
• Just So Stories: The Crab that Played with the Sea

Natural History/Science

• Burgess’s Bird Book : A Swallow and One Who Isn’t
• Mother Westwind “why” stories: Why Mr. Snake Can Not Wink
  

• Astronomy
  • The Big Dipper and You by E.C. Krupp: Pages 26-27
  • The Stars: Perseus, Bull, Ram
  • The stars and their stories: a book for young people-The Royal Family

Geography

• Paddle to the Sea: Chapter 22
  • Google Earth tour – (direct link)
  • When Niagara Falls Stopped

Poetry

• The Naming of the Cats- T.S. Eliot 
  
• The Naming of the Cats-CATS the Musical (video)

 

Art

Georges Seurat (French, Post-impressionist, 1859-1891)

• The Eiffel Tower
• Google Art Project-Seurat Gallery (zoom in to view paint strokes)
• Complete works of Georges Seurat

Composer

Gioacchino Rossini

• Biography
• Overture to La cenerentola (Cinderella)
  

 

Bible

• Devotions
  • Creation Moments
• Memory Verse
  • AWANA
• Bible: Matt. 5:1-10 (The sermon on the mount)

 

Hymn Study

Copywork

Handwriting Worksheet Creator

• This victory cheered the English very much, and when the people heard of it, more and more of them gathered round their king.
• As she thought of how she would settle that matter, she tossed her head scornfully, and down fell the pail of milk to the ground.
• Lear, who loved Cordelia best, had wished her to make more extravagant professions of love than her sisters. “Go,” he said, “be for ever a stranger to my heart and me.”
• Then he went South and found All-the-Turtle-there-was scratching with his flippers in the sand that had been got ready for him, and the sand and the rocks whirled through the air and fell far off into the sea.
• And now he knew at last which of his children it was that had loved him best, and who was worthy of his love.