Homeschool Schedule: Week of Jan. 14th

Last week’s study of Verdi was incredible! Opera filled our home on a daily basis as we discussed its origin and meaning. I must confess, I was resistant to the thought of opera-eek-but after reading about the life of Verdi our excitement grew. We even added a Pandora channel entitled “Verdi”.

Ambleside Online is our primary curriculum.

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History

• Fifty Famous Stories Retold: “How Napoleon Crossed the Alps“
• George Washington by Ingri D’Aulaire

Literature

• Aesop’s Fables: “The Mice and the Weasels“
• Aesop’s Fables:”The Wolf and the Lean Dog“
• Among the Meadow People: “The Robins Build a Nest“

Natural History/Science

• Cooking-Freshwater vs saltwater.
• Mother Westwind “why” stories

 

• Astronomy
  • The Stars: Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Giraffe pg. 32-3
  • Tour of Cassiopeia
  • Umbrella Star Rotation Example
  • Galaxy Zoo

Geography

• Map Study: Holland
• Paddle to the Sea: Chapter 16
  • Google Earth tour – (direct link)

Poetry

• The Golden Treasury of Poetry
  • The Lamb-William Blake
  • Mary’s Lamb-Sarah Josepha Hale
  • Young Lambs-John Clark
  • The Tiger-William Blake
  • Leviathan-Louis Untermeyer 

Art

Jacob van Ruisdael-Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede, c. 1670, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Composer

Giuseppe Verdi

• Rigoletto: La Donna e Mobile

Shakespeare

• The Winter’s Tale by Charles and Mary Lamb

Bible

• Devotions
  • Insulated Ears
  • Heated Moths
  • Smart Squirrels
  • Inchworm Games
  • Your Multi-Purpose Nose
• Memory Work
  • 1 John 3:17-18
  • Colossians 4:2

Hymn Study

Copywork

Handwriting Worksheet Creator

• The long line of soldiers and horses and cannon stretched for twenty miles. When they came to a steep place where there seemed to be no way to go farther, the trumpets sounded “Charge!” Then every man did his best, and the whole army moved right onward.
• To distinguish themselves from the soldiers in the ranks, the new leaders proudly bound on their heads lofty crests and ornaments of feathers or straw. Then after long preparation of the Mouse army in all the ants of war, they sent a challenge to the Weasels.
• But the “porter” was a huge Dog whom the Wolf knew by painful experience to be very unkind toward wolves. So he decided not to wait and made off as fast as his legs could carry him.
• After a while, soft gray clouds began to cover the sky. “I wonder,” said Mrs. Robin, “if it will rain before we get this done. The mud is soft enough now to work well, and this place is so open that the rain might easily wash away all that we have done.”
• But the poor deserted little baby was found by a shepherd. She was richly dressed, and had with her some jewels, and a paper was pinned to her cloak, saying that her name was Perdita, and that she came of noble parents.

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