Week 7

We did week six, and took a week off. I just didn't keep up here.

Now we're in to October, and we had our first snow this weekend. So I'm not sure what nature stuff we'll be doing until we get used to the weather and I feel like Tommy's big enough to be out in it.

The prairie is free to us this month, just like it was last year. And I hope it warms up enough for us to go!


Up for this week:

Verse of the week: (Since I last wrote, we did Psalm 121:1-2 and John 6:40)
John 10:27-28
My sheep hear my voice. I know them and they follow me. I give them eternal life. They shall never perish and no one can take them from my hands.

Math every day
Say the verse every day
Write the verse every day
Reading practice every day
Bible reading every day - We're still in the book of Acts

An Island Story: chapter 4 "How Caligula Conquered Britain, and How Caractacus Refused to be Conquered"
Fifty Famous Stories Retold: "Horatius at the Bridge" (Roman)
Shakespeare: "Midsummer Nights Dream"
Paddle to the Sea: chapter 6
Aesop's Fables: "The Lion and the Mouse" (pg. 19 in the Milo Winter version) and "The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf" (pg. 20 in the Milo Winter version)
Trial and Triumph: chapter 2 "Blandina Martyr of Lyons" (155-177 AD)

Week 5

Front-loading the week worked. It was a super busy week, but we made it through school. Someday I have to get back to posting too....

This week is back to work. We'll see if this routine will really work.

Verse of the week:
1 John 3:16
By this we know love, because Jesus laid down His life for us....


A poem every day
Math every day
Say the verse every day
Write the verse every day
Reading practice every day
Bible reading every day - Currently reading the book of Acts


An Island Story: chapter 3 "The Romans Come Again"
Parables from Nature: "Law of Authority and Obedience"
Fifty Famous Stories Retold: "The Story of Regulus" (Roman)
Just So Stories "Camel"
Paddle to the Sea: chapter 4
Aesop's Fables: "The Fox and the Grapes" (pg. 16 in the Milo Winter version) and "The Bundle of Sticks" (pg. 16 in the Milo Winter version)
James Herriot's Treasury: "Only One Woof"

Week 4

Barely finished last week (don't think we ever did read the fables).....
Perhaps if we front-load the week, we'll get done this week?

I have to write yet of visiting the fair, then visiting the zoo, and the fun nature study on spiders!


Verse of the week:
John 5:24
Truly truly, I say to you He who hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life and does not come into judgment but has passed from death into life.

A poem every day
Math every day
Say the verse every day
Write the verse every day
Reading practice every day
Bible reading every day - Currently reading the book of Acts


Fifty Famous Stories Retold: "Alexander and Bucephelas"; and "Diogenes" (Greek)
Burgess's Bird Book: chapter II "The Old Orchard Bully - The English or House Sparrow"
Aesop's Fables: "The Kid and the Wolf" (pg. 13 in the Milo Winter version) and "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" (pg. 14 in the Milo Winter version)
James Herriot's Treasury: "Moses the Kitten"

Week 3

At my husband's suggestion that we go for "more" rather than "less" routine, I think we've found a workable groove.
At breakfast: Bible reading and verse
Right after breakfast: reading, then math then writing. Then play outside until lunch.
After lunch: one of the weeks assigned readings. Then play outside again until naps.
As it happens, nature walk, art, poetry, handicraft projects and the like.

It worked okay last week anyway!


Verse of the week:
Romans 6:23
The wages of sin is death But the free gift of God is eternal life in Jesus.

A poem every day
Math every day
Say the verse every day
Write the verse every day
Reading practice every day
Bible reading every day - Currently reading the book of Acts

An Island Story: chapter 2 "The Coming of the Romans" (Or read in our book)
Fifty Famous Stories Retold: "The Brave Three Hundred" (Or read in our book)
Aesop's Fables: "The Boy and the Filberts" and "Hercules and the Wagoner" (Fables book is in Ebenezer Institute Folder)
Blue Fairy Book: "Beauty and the Beast" OR "The Glass Slipper"(Blue Fairy Book is in Ebenezer Institute Folder)

Paddle to the Sea: chapter 3

An art project

A nature walk and journal

A handicraft project (build something)

Scribble Art Project

This week's art project: scribble coloring.

We did this as kids, and I realized this week that my kids had never done this. So we learned.

First, you scribble loosely on the paper.


Then you color in the spaces, all different colors.


Josephine was very careful to color in all the spaces.



Bennet, of course, had his own interpretation of the scribble picture, and it looks great!

Week 2

We only got about 3 days of "school" in last week. I don't think that's too bad for a first week. We'll try for four this week. We're off to a good start with jelly making :)

Verse of the week:
Numbers 14:18
The LORD God is slow to anger, abounding in love, forgiving sin and rebellion.


A Child's Garden of Verses: a poem every day

Math every day

Say the verse every day
Write the verse every day

Reading practice every day

Bible reading every day


Fifty Famous Stories Retold: "Damon and Pythias"; and "A Laconic Answer" (Greek)

Trial and Triumph: chapter 1 "Polycarp Witness in the Arena" (69-155 AD)

Aesop's Fables:
"Belling the Cat" (pg. 11 in the Milo Winter version) and
"The Eagle and the Jackdaw" (pg. 12 in the Milo Winter version)

Burgess's Bird Book: chapter I "Jenny Wren Arrives: Introducing the House Wren" (pictures for each bird)

Paddle to the Sea: chapter 2

An art project

A nature walk and journal

A handicraft project (build something)

Nature Walk: Berries

The weather: uncharacteristically cool, for August. Cloudy and drizzling.
We went: walking around the neighborhood.
We heard: Lots of crickets, a trash truck, and some birds. We also heard the creak of a windmill in the neighbor's yard.
We looked for: berries.

Instead of berries, we found a dandylion.


And white morning-glory flowers.



Beautiful Thistles.


Ants on a Black-Eyed Susan leaf.


A huge white mushroom (about 10 inches in diameter). The kids thought it was a bone.


Deformed peaches.



White flowers.



And, finally some berries.


We took the time to notice that on the berries, the seed is on the outside of the "squishy part", but on other fruits, the seed is on the inside. The kids noticed this difference themselves, once I asked.

The sumac has berries too, and it's starting to turn already -- it's only August!


And our raspberries at home are starting to ripen too!

Week 1

This is our first week. Number5 just came home from the hospital yesterday. We're all in a tizzy, so I don't know how much will get done. My focus is going to be on loving each kid individually, and establishing something like a healthy, workable routine.


Verse of the week: John 15:16
You did not choose me, but I chose you and told you to go bear much fruit. This is my command: Love each other.

Every Day
A Child's Garden of Verses: read one poem
Math
Say the verse
Write the verse
Reading practice
Bible reading (Proverbs, one chapter a day)

For the week
Aesop's Fables
"The Wolf and the Kid" (pg. 7 in the Milo Winter version) and
"Tortoise and the Ducks" (pg. 8 in the Milo Winter version);

Island Story chapter 1 "The Stories of Albion and Brutus";
Fifty Famous Stories Retold: "The Sword of Damocles" (Greek);
Paddle to the Sea: chapter 1

Do An art project

Take a nature walk
Write in the Nature journal

Make something (handicraft project)