Homeschool Schedule: Week of Feb. 18th

Green Belt-Test Time!

It came…it went.

What do these two things have in common? They are highlights of our homeschool week!

Green Belt-Test Time!

After weeks of practice, practice and more practice Taekwondo Gal (name changed to reflect most intense interest) earned her fourth belt stripe. The earning of this stripe entitled her to participate in the next Taekwondo belt test-green belt.

It feels like only yesterday she was waltzing around with a white belt.

Test results will be given this week. Regardless of the outcome, she is having a blast learning the forms and her instructor is outstanding! Every child is a success-just for having the courage to not give up.

It came…it went.

I confess, we had a countdown of the approaching Asteroid 2012 DA14.

Asteroid Gal (many interests this week) surrounded herself with astronomy books, a globe and planet pictures to get ready for the event. Please let me state for the record I did not request any of these materials, she was excited to watch NASA TV and wanted to get in the moment.

Shouts of 5,4,3,2,1 then 1,2,3… filled the air as Asteroid 2012 DA14 traveled toward and then safely away from Earth. We had a wonderful discussion about asteroids/meteorites, observatories and Australia.

 

The Week Ahead

For Presidents’ Day we are going to go on a virtual tour of the Mount Vernon Mansion, investigate the Lansdowne portrait of George Washington and conclude our study of George Washington.

I’m excited that the William Tell overture is part of our composer study this week, in the resource links you might see how I perhaps went a wee’ bit crazy.

Our poem of the week will be The Ad-Dressing of Cats by T.S. Eliot. We will be reading the full poem then watching the video clip from CATS. I wonder if she’ll notice the parts that are omitted? Hmm, only time will tell.

Ambleside Online is our primary curriculum, we are currently in week 26.

Click on images of text to go to Google Book.

History

• Viking Tales: “The Baby“
• George Washington by Ingri D’Aulaire
  • Solve a Mystery: George Washington Painting
  • Lansdowne portrait of George Washington
  • Full Resolution image of Landsdowne portrait
  • Mount Vernon Mansion Virtual Tour 
  • Presidential Money Game

Literature

• Aesop’s Fables: “The Wolf and The Shepherd“
• Aesop’s Fables: “The Farmer and His Sons“
• Blue Fairy Book: “East of the Sun, West of the Moon“

Natural History/Science

• Great Backyard Bird Count
• Burgess’s Bird Book: “More of the Blackbird Family”
• Mother Westwind “why” stories-“Why Jerry Muskrat Builds His House in the Water“

• Astronomy
  • The Big Dipper and You by E.C. Krupp: Pages 20-12
  • The Stars: Great Square, Andromeda, Pegasus, Triangle, Lizard (same as last week)
  • The stars and their stories: a book for young people-The Winged Horse

 

Geography

• Paddle to the Sea: Chapter 20
  • Google Earth tour – (direct link)

Poetry

• The Golden Treasury of Poetry
  • The Ad-Dressing of Cats – T.S. Eliot 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lcnCd_Gyfc

Art

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

•  Man Cleaning His Boat and here
• Complete works of Georges Seurat

Composer

Gioacchino Rossini:

• William Tell overture
• About Gioacchino Rossini
• Song Facts of William Tell overture
• William Tell overture–  Who says homeschoolers can’t watch cartoons??
• Just could not resist William Tell overture
• The Story of William Tell

 

Shakespeare

• The Winter’s Tale by Charles and Mary Lamb

Bible

• Devotions
  • Creation Moments
• Memory Work
  • Old Testament Books
• Focus: John 2:1-11 (The water that was turned into wine)

Hymn Study

Copywork

Handwriting Worksheet Creator

• The queen looked at him and smiled and remembered her dream and thought: “That great tree! Can it be this little baby of mine?”
• At last the Shepherd got so used to seeing the Wolf about that he forgot how wicked he could be.
• A rich old farmer, who felt that he had not many more days to live, called his sons to his bedside.
• “No, indeed,” said she, “I shall never forget;” and as soon as she was at home the White Bear turned round and went back again.
• “Just so, Peter; just so,” retorted Jimmy Skunk, nodding his head with approval. “That’s why I am here.”