Hurray!
I have spent a lot of time thinking, praying & generally mulling this over :)
I have two daughters, aged 6 & 9. I think that our scriptures for memory work are rather short, as this year they have memorised much longer passages, so I most likely will update those through the year.
This is the year I decided to bit the bullet & go for a formal maths curriculum. So far we have used living maths & other resources, but no curriculum. Being hopeless at maths myself, I was worried about the girls having huge gaps in their knowledge.
My youngest, Rose, seems to be spot on, with grade level. Elianna is way ahead in some areas & way behind in others, so I have started her on G3 Math Mammoth. I am quite nervous about this formal curriculum, but really looking forward to it.
Without further ado, I present our gentle learning for the next year...
Plans 2012-2013
Bible
Daily
read from ‘The Book For Children’ & each child to narrate
Character
I will
be looking to develop the following traits in myself & my girls J
Table
manners
Mental
effort & perseverance
Contentedness
Peacefulness
Forgiveness
Diligence
Discernment
Humbleness
Tactfulness
Being
punctual
Memory
Work
Ps
145:3
Dan
2:20
Ps
23:1
Luke
1:30-31
Ps 9:2
John
20:29
1 John
4:19
Matt
6:9
Ps
119:105
Ps
69:34
Deut
4:39
Poetry
– a poem per month by Christina Rossetti
Elianna:
How
many seconds
1+1
Hope
is Like a harebell
Oh
Lady Moon
In the
bleak mid-winter
January
cold & desolate
The
dog likes his kennel
Oh
wind, where have you been
Boats
sail on the river
There
is but one May in the year
A pin
has a head
What
is pink?
Rosie:
Hurt
no living thing
1+1
Hope
is Like a harebell
Oh
Lady Moon
In the
bleak mid-winter
A
motherless soft Lambkin
Pussy
On the
grassy banks
When
the crows come home
There
is but one May in the year
The
city mouse
What
is pink?
Artist
Study
Monet:
Waterlillies
after 1916
Water lilies(Nympheas)
1907
Waterlillies
1916-19
Water
lilies(Nympheas) 1916
London:
Houses of parliament. The sun shining through the fog 1904
The
Japenese bridge (part of a series of 236) 1899
Van
Gogh:
Starry
Night
Irises
Self
portrait with straw hat
The
Spinner
Still
life with sunflowers
Autumn
landscape with four trees
Dante
Gabriel Rossetti:
Pandora
The
blessed damozel
Dante’s
dream
Ecce
Ancilla Domini
Lady
Lilleth
Beata
Beatrix
Composer
Study
Benjamin
Britten – Young persons guide to the orchestra
Sergei
Prokofiev – Peter & the wolf
Paul
Dukas – Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Tchaikovsky:
Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker
Handel:
Water Music
Seasonal
& Handcrafts
Celebrate
the seasons & festivals of the year
Knitting
mittens & hats
Tapestries
Ellie
to knit bedsocks
Phonics
& Reading
Keep
revising phonics:
Ai,
au, aw, ay, ea, ee, ei
Eigh,
ew, ey, ie
Igh,
oa, oe, oi,
Oo,
ou, ough, ow
Oy,
ui, er, ir
Ur,
or, ear, our
Ed,
ar, or
Ci,
si, ti, sh
Dge,
kn, ph, tch
Ch,
ck, gn, ng, nk, th, wh, wr
Daily
practice from ‘The Ordinary Parent’s Guide To Reading’
Daily
quiet reading
Ellie
to keep a reading notebook – 40 book challenge
Copy
Work
Daily
copywork – copy the current poem
Spelling
Follow
the program from Anne Elliot
French
Read a
bilingual book each day (monthly selections)
Grammar
Ellie
– Kiss Grammar L1(3)
Mine, All
Mine! A book about pronouns
Maths
Rosie:
Math Mammoth 2
Elianna:
Math Mammoth 3
Latin
Elianna:
The big book of Lively Latin Vol.1
Rummy Roots
Literature
& Poetry
History
The
Story of The Greeks
The
Story of The Romans
Geography
Jungles
Arctic
Circle
Arabian
Desert
Switzerland
(mountains)
China
(rivers)
Africa
(Grasslands)
Germany
(river valley)
Review the continents
Memorise
European countries
Creating/Working
with maps
Science
Nature
Study
Weekly
nature walks & keeping a nature notebook
Out
& About
Regular
places we go – Brownies / Youthclub etc plus monthly field trips
Elianna's art lessons
Elianna's art lessons
