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!