Homeschool Schedule: Week of Feb. 25th

Green Belt-Taken Home!!

We celebrated this week as a green belt entered our home. Taekwondo Gal was super excited!

 

Ambleside Online is our primary curriculum, we are currently in week 27.

Click on images of text to go to Google Book.

History

• • Viking Tales: “The Tooth-thrall“
  • An Island Story: “King Alfred in the Cowherd’s Cottage“

Literature

• Aesop’s Fables: “The Goose and the Golden Egg“
• Aesop’s Fables: “The Astrologer“
• Finish Peter Pan

Natural History/Science

• Mother Westwind “why” stories-“Why Old Man Coyote Has Many Voices“

• Implement “Starting a Bird Life List” (Excellent website for nature study, be sure to check it out!)
• Astronomy
  • The Big Dipper and You by E.C. Krupp: Pages 22-23
  • The Stars: Great Square, Andromeda, Pegasus, Triangle, Lizard (same as last week, again)
  • The stars and their stories: a book for young people-The Winged Horse

Geography

• Paddle to the Sea: Chapter 21
  • Google Earth tour – (direct link)

Poetry

• Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer- T.S. Eliot (comparing original to CATS)

Art

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

• Complete works of Georges Seurat

Composer

Gioacchino Rossini:

• Biography
• The Thieving Magpie Overture by Rossini

Bible

• Devotions
  • Creation Moments
• Trial and Triumph: chapter 7 “Patrick Missionary to the Irish” (389-461 AD)
• Memory Verse
  • AWANA
• Bible: John 4:5-42 (The stranger at the well)

Hymn Study

Copywork

Handwriting Worksheet Creator

• “How little our houses look down there!” Harald said. “But I can almost—yes, I can see the red dragon on the roof of the feast hall. Do you remember when I climbed up and sat on his head, Olaf?”
  
• “All right, good wife, I will look after your cakes for you,” replied Alfred.
• The Countryman took the eggs to market and soon began to get rich. But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day. He was not getting rich fast enough.
• “You pretend to read the future in the stars, and yet you fail to see what is at your feet! This may teach you to pay more attention to what is right in front of you, and let the future take care of itself.”
• “No whitening of your cheek, Harald? Good! A boy that can face the fall of Aegir’s Rock will not be afraid to face the war flash when he is a man.”