Homeschool Schedule Week of Feb. 11th

We have discovered something about our new pet hamster the pet store failed to mention. It was not their fault. How were they to know we Homeschool?

Beyond purchasing the cage, bedding, food, treats, toys and other hamster delights we needed something else-we needed to max out our library card. Hamster Gal read in one of her care books that you can calm your pet by reading to it. Well of course we want a calm pet!  So, each day she grabs a stack of books, sits near the cage and reads to her heart’s content. The hamster doesn’t seem to mind and I’m delighted to hear her read.

One of our readings for the week is How King Alfred Learned to Read, it’s amazing the things we take for granted these days. A picture book in his time period was an extreme luxury.  I wonder what Alfred would have thought of YouTube as we listen to Gioacchino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville or read our various stories online? I wonder what those in the year 2030 will say of us?

Alas, homeschooling allows us the opportunity to ponder these questions and more.

Here is our week ahead:

Ambleside Online is our primary curriculum.

Click on images of text to go to Google Book.

History

• Fifty Famous Stories Retold: “The Kingdoms“
• Our Island Story:  “How King Alfred Learned to Read“
• George Washington by Ingri D’Aulaire
  • Interactive Portrait of George Washington

Literature

• Aesop’s Fables: “The Fox and the Goat“
• Aesop’s Fables: “The Cat, the Rooster and the Young Mouse“
• Parables from Nature: “Law of the Wood“
• Just So Stories: “Alphabet“

Natural History/Science

• Great Backyard Bird Count
• Mother Westwind “why” stories-“Why Sammy Jay Has a Fine Coat“

• Astronomy
  • The Big Dipper and You by E.C. Krupp: Pages 18-19
  • The Stars: Great Square, Andromeda, Pegasus, Triangle, Lizard
  • The stars and their stories: a book for young people-The Winged Horse

 

Geography

• Paddle to the Sea: Chapter 19
  • Google Earth tour – (direct link)

Poetry

• The Golden Treasury of Poetry
  •  The Old Gumbie Cat – T.S. Eliot 

Art

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

•  Rock-Breakers, Le Raincy, 1882, also here

Shakespeare

• The Winter’s Tale by Charles and Mary Lamb

Bible

• Devotions
  • Creation Moments
• Memory Work
  • Old Testament Books
• Focus: Bible: Luke 2:41-52 (The child in the temple)

Hymn Study

Copywork

Handwriting Worksheet Creator

• It made the king glad to see the happy children, and hear their merry voices. He stood still for some time, and watched them as they played.
• These Danes, as we shall call them all, were fierce, wild men. They loved to sail upon the sea; they loved to fight. They were heathen too, just as the Saxons had been when they first came to England.
• “If you had as much sense as you have beard, old fellow,” he said as he ran, “you would have been more cautious about finding a way to get out again before you jumped in.”
• “I am sure he was just about to speak to me when the monster I have told you about let out a screaming yell, and I ran for my life.”
• And accordingly, one morning—that very early summer morning before described—the Birch, having had his silvery bark a little more scratched than usual, opened his mind to his friends.