Cherished Hearts Learning at Home

♥ List of Ideas~
ferret
fairy
family
fingers
fox

feet
footprints
felt
felting
fish
frog
five
farm
farm animals
firtree
furniture
fire
firewood
firetruck
filter
farmer
favourite
film
fiber
follow
feather
flower
fine
feast
flow
fawn
fever
feast
fountain
faun


♥ F Saints ~
St Faustina Kowalska
St Frances Xavier Cabrini
St Francis of Assisi
St Francis de Sales
St Francis Xavier
St FredericOzanam
St Felicity and St Perpetua

• Fabriano, Gentile, see Gentile da Fabriano
• Fantin-Latour, Henri
• Feke, Robert
• Flémalle, Master of (Campin, Robert)
• Fouquet, Jean
• Fra Angelico, see Angelico, Fra
• Fragonard, Jean-Honoré
• Freud, Lucian
• Friedrich, Caspar David
• Fuseli, Henry

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Even though we have finished E Week I am still posting these plans for future reference. There wasn't as much to do for E so it didn't take so long.

♥ List of Ideas~
Eggs
Elephant
Elves
Eyes
Ears
earings
elegance
enter
elbow
Ephithatny
Easter
easter eggs
Ents (from Lord of the Rings)
Egypt
Eagle
Emu
Echidna
Elk
electricity

♥ E Saints ~
Elizabeth of Hungray
Elizabeth Ann Seton
Elizabeth (Mary's cousin)
Edmund
Eloi
Ephraim
Elijah the prophet
Eisha the prophet
Esther

♥ Famous People ~
Elsa Beskow
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
T.S. Elliot
Duke Ellington
El Greco
Eyck, Jan Van
Elizabeth 1
Humpty Dumpty (Egg)

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Eyebright
Elderberry
Elm Tree

♥ Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to E song
Colour the Eyebight Fairy fom here

♥ Food ~
Eggs
Eggplant

♥ Movies ~
Enchanted
The Road to Eldorado

♥ Fairy Tales ~
The Elves and the Shoemaker
The Empreror's New Clothes

♥ Musical Instruments ~

♥ Activities ~
letter E ideas
Various alphabet pages ~ need to link to each letter
colouring page St Elizabeth of Hungary
colouring page St Elizabeth Ann Seton
Paper dolls ST Elizabeth Ann Seton
Colour giant Egg and chicken and join to have hatching egg
colour Eat Nicely
make a Humpty dumpty and sing the song
Read and talk about the E alphabet books
Read the Serindipity E Story
Learn the Eyebright Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
make a bees wax E
embroider E on felt or calico
draw animals that start with E
pin prick E shape and/or d shape animals
E stickers on paper and draw a E
Jan Brett and little handwriting E shape pages
use the E sound pouch
drawing E in cornmeal
Learn a E poem -Higglety Pigglty My Black Hen (Egg theme)
make a E saint from wooden people (along with the others we missed)

This is all I can think of at the moment.

Blessings,

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As we finished up our studies last month I wanted to refocus on allowing the children 'wiggle room.' Time to be able to follow through on the creative side of life.
Time to actually do all the things we plan on our Monthly Outlines and personal activities.

Also as I generally plan Advent studies this month I didn't want to be planning another Unit study.

So study for this month consist of ::
♥ Pre Organised Unit Studies~
Saxon and Autumn : Solar System - Jennifer Steward
Solar System - Acorn Academy
Vellvin and Rogan: Medieval Times - Jennifer Steward
Eden has a study I printed out years ago on Weaving using Little house books as a guide. I have a feeling they are from Melissa Whiley's old blog, but I can't find a Link for this one.

♥ Since the children found out about NaNoWriMo this has been a major focus of their studies replacing the excitement they had for the above Unit Studies.
- this is replacing the English studies we had planned.

♥ Maths form Mathmatics.com.au

♥ Geography is travel around Australia~
Taking one week to cover 2 states or territories
- major towns,
- major rivers
- major land marks
- major natural features eg, national parks, state forests
- National monuments
- historical landmarks
- state specifics eg population, size of state
- oceans and seas around Australia
- well known pastoral stations.

- Distances between capital cities
- distances from specific towns in each state.

♥ Learn Christmas Carols~ approx 3 per week

♥ Assigned Reading from Here

♥ Creative making things form Monthly Outlines OR Christmas presents

♥ Music practise on the instruments each child can play

♥ For Moran Myffwyn and Corbyn we will continue traveling the Alphabet Path as well as learning Christmas Carols.

Blessings,

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Children's Assigned Reading for November:

♥ Autumn.
*The Coral Island-R.M.Ballantyne.
*Riverman-Allan Baillie.
*Pioneers Of The Air-James Prunier.
*On The Clouds To China-Cyril Davey.
*In The Hands Of The Cave Dwellers-G. A. Henty.
*The Winged Watchman-Hilda Van Stockum.
*Woodland Tales-Ernest Thompson Seton.

♥ Vellvin.
*The Coral Island-R.M.Ballantyne.
*Mates At Billabong-Mary Grant Bruce.
*Laddie-Gene Stratton Porter.
*Hudson Talyor-Phyllis Thompson.
*Rujub The Juggler-G.A.Henty.
*Voyage on the Great Titanic-Ellen Emerson White.
*The Book Of The Forest-James Gourier

♥ Saxon
*Saint George for England-G.A.Henty
*Mr. Hornbeams treasure hunt-Louise Elliott
*The Borrowed House- Hilda van Stockum
*Saint Ignatius-August Derleth
*A Christmas carol-Charles Dickens
*Albert Einstein-Marie Hammontree
*Nuclear arms race-Nigel Hawkes

♥ Eden
* The Southern Rainbow by Phyllis Piddington.
*The Tiger of Mysore by G. A. Henty.
*My Heart Lies South by Elizabeth Borton De Trevino.
*Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter.
*St Louis De Montfort by Mary Fabyan Windeatt.
*Cotton,The Story of Cotton Farming in Australia byNicol Taylor.
*The Man in the Iron Mask byAlexandre Dumas.

♥ Rogan

* Deserts - Nicola Barber
* Little Old Mrs Pepperpot - Alf Proysen
* Ollies Ski Trip - Elsa Beskow
* Once Upon a time Saints - Ethel Pochocki
* Squire Terrence and the Maiden's Knight - Gerald Morris
* The Adventures of Bobby Raccoon - Thornton W Burgess
* Twister Trouble - Magic School Bus Chapter Book


Blessings,

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♥ List of Ideas~
Daddy
Dogs
dolphins
daffy duck
Donald duck
daisy duck
Dr Seuss
dolls
ducks
daisies
Disney
Disneyland
dancing
dentist
driving
dingos
doctor
donkey
deer
dinner
dinosaurs
dragons
dragonfly
Denmark
damsel
dollar
Drawing
decoupage
Doves

♥ D Saints ~
Dominic
Damien of Molokai
Dunstan
Dorothy
King David
Daniel in the Lions Den
Divine Mercy

♥ Famous People ~
Walt Disney
Debussy
Dvorak
Edgar Degas
Tomie De Paola
Leonardo daVinci
Donut Man
Doris Day

♥ Flower Fairies ~
Double Daisy
Daisy

♥ Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to D song
colour Double Daisy Fairy form here

♥ Food ~
Donuts
dumplings
devil food cake
date cake
D cookies
Sticky Date pudding
devilled Eggs
dips

♥ Movies ~
Dudley Do right
Daddy Daycare
Donald Duck
Daffy Duck

♥ Fairy Tales ~
The Darning Needle (A)
The Daisy (A)
The Dumb Book (A)
The Days of the Week (A)
Dance Dance Doll of Mine (A)
The Drop of Water (A)
The Dryad (A)
The Devil and the Three Golden Hairs (G)
The Death of the Little Red Hen (G)
Doctor Know all (G)
The Devil's Sooty Brother (G)
Donkey Cabbages (G)
The Devil and his Grandfather (G)
The Donkey (G)
The Ditmars Tale of Wonders (G)
The Duration of Life (G)
Deaths messengers (G)
The Drummer (G)

♥ Musical Instruments ~
Drums
Didgeridoo
Dulcimer

♥ Activities ~
letter D ideas
Various alphabet pages ~ need to link to each letter
doe colouring page
Family dinner colouring page
dragon dot to dot
Colour St Damien
St Dominic colouring page
King David colouring page
colour do your Duty
colour the St Dominic Eden drew for us

Read the Serindipity D Story
Learn the Double Daisy Poem from The Flower Fairy Book
learn 'doe a deer' from sound of music
make a bees wax D
embroider D on felt or calico
make Paper dolls from our pattern we have used for years
sew a small felt doll
draw animals that start with D
pin prick D shape and/or d shape animals
D stickers on paper and draw a D
Jan Brett and little handwriting D shape pages
use the D sound pouch
digging for dinosaurs
make dragon wings
drawing D in cornmeal
make dragon fly's
Learn a D poem
make a D saint from wooden people (along with the others we missed)

This is all I can think of at the moment.

Blessings,

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♥ List of ideas ~
Church
clowns
canaries
candles
clothing
cards
creeks
canoes
colours
cat
cooks
cooking
castle
cuckoo
continents
clocks
crockery
cane
cross
cherubim
children
cross stitch
crafts
caves
clouds
crayons
caterpillar

♥ C Saints ~
Cecilia
Catherine of Alexandria
Catherine of Sienna
Christopher
Cosmos
Cyril of Alexandria
Columba (Columcille)
Clare
Pope Clement I

♥ Famous People ~
Mary Cassatt
Paul Cezanne
Chopin
Columbus
Captain Cook
Julius Caesar
Winston Churchill
Cleopatra

♥ Flower Fairies ~ this site
Columbine
Candy Tuft
Canterbury Bell
Chicory
Christmas Tree
Cornflower
Crocus
Cherry Tree

♥ Flower Fairies CD ~
listen to C song

♥ Food ~
custard
chocolate
caramel
cherries
cupcakes
cookies
celery
carrots
chips
crisps
cake
cream
corn
chicken
coconut
cream puffs
Cinnamon
coffee
croutons
crunchy salad
crackers

make cinnamon buns
make coffee cake
make a carrot cake
make cupcakes
cook crumpets
make caramel pie

♥ Movies ~
Cars
Prince Caspian
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Cheaper by the Dozen 1 & 2
Cinderella
Nanny mC fee (Braedon stretching it)

♥ Fairy Tales ~
Cinderella
Clever Hans
Clever Gretal
Cat and Mouse in Partnership
The Candles
The Court Cards

♥ Musical instruments
Celtic drums
cello
clarinet
clavier
cymbals
cowbell

♥ Activities
Bees wax C
learn a c poem
use the C sound pouches
play Candyland
play cards
make coconut shell play items
make a caterpillar
make a small cross stitch
make a clown mask
c shape cookies
C shape pin pricking
c shape sewing - back stitch
Alphabet wooden saints - painted
colour in C pages- St Cecilia, St Catherine,
Jan Brett C page,
C colouring Pages
caterpillar dot to dot
c colouring book
c words book
letter C ideas
Abc chameleon matching game
look at cloud formations-- use the Montessori cards
Decorate candles
make a cat from fabric
tissue paper SCRUNCHING onto a big C
make crayon blended drawings
make large chalk pictures outside
cutting out cardboard shapes
Matching Oreo Cookie game
make cornucopias
make paper chains
learn about colours in colour wheel and mixing colours
cloud experiment

Blessings,

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Well this is hardly a weekly review is it?

Any way we have been very on and off with our progress
This week the older children started out very strong on the assigned work for the week.
However as we had feast days during this week we were not able to do all the set work.

They did start to get up very early again (5:30 am) and start the morning off very well. completing morning devotions, Bible reading, walk/run again and preparation for the morning chores.

The older 2 boys are still not as good at getting up although they did on a couple of days get up before 8:30am.

The little ones and I have been doing a lot of reading of the B books for Along the Alphabet Path.
We have done a lot of reading and not as much activity work as I wanted.
This I think is because we lost the momentum and once again took 3 weeks to do this.
this seems to be becouse we have a lot of interuption to the time we have spent together.

The older children are completeing lots of reading, both free and Assigned.

We have had a few major feast days which meant we have been focusing on these as well.

The older girls and I have started Orchard house Circle and we will continue to do this each week.

As I am completing this on Tuesday I have mentioned in Hearts for Home I think it is time for a review of what we want to achieve and what we actually are.

What is important and waht are are goals especially as we have not very long till we start Advent studies, which I need to get started planning on.


Blessings,

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Ideas of Things:

buttons
ballerinas
Bags
balloons
bears
bags
boxes
blocks
bees
bumblebees
beads
baby
butterfly
bracelet
bangle
birds
bible
blanket
bugs
brothers
boys
beans
blue
beach
brownies- the fairy
buns
bunny's
books
boggle
bogart
bubbles
bands
band aids
Birtthdays
Bride
boat
buddies

B Saints:
Briget of Ireland
Briget of Sweeden
Bede
Benedict
Basil
Brenden
Bernadette

Holy Father- Benedict XVI

Famous People:
Beathoven
Bach
Beatrix Potter
Bugs bunny
Bottecheli
Brahms

Flower Fairies: Cecily Mary Barker
Bugle
Blackberry
Blueberry
Bagels
Baked Beans
berry yogurt
bread- home made
beef
BBQ food
Broccoli
beans-green
B Biscuits
biscuits
butterscotch pudding

Food:
Blueberry
Blackberry
brownies
banana
biscuits
Bernard Poem-- Shirley Hughes

Movies:
The Bee Movie
Beauty and the Beast
Bedtime Stories
Babe

Fairy Tales:
Beauty and the Beast
The Beetle who went on his travels
Brother and Sister
The Two Brothers
Breman Town Muscians
Little Briar Rose


Musical Instruments:
bluegrass music
banjo
bass guitar
bass drum
bells
bass clarinet
bagpipes

Activities:
Using the ideas from list:
colour in Big B's
find b in words
b mathing
dot to dots
sandpaper letters
tracing b
write b in book
draw birds

Emroider an A and B on felt or Calico

Make Bees wax B

Felt a bird in a nest

Make Wooden Saints : St Bernadette and St Benedict
( and last weeks A St Agnes and St Anthony of the Christ Child)

Colour in St Brenden, St Bridget,
dot to dot's
Blueberry matching alphabet

Read the Alphabet Path Stories for B
Use the B pouch for fun
Playdoh with the alphabet letters.
Stickers ABC

Match up the plastic bugs in pairs
Match up the Butterfly's in pairs
Look at the lifecycle of butterfly (plastic ones)

That 's all I can think of at the moment. Maybe more later.

Blessings,

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As we have had several weeks of illness I have been fairly happy with what we have achieved.

The older children have not done any formal work but have worked on Math's, Spiderwick Study and Assigned Reading as they were able.

They also played word games and board games with Boggle and Up words, scrabble and Cards being the favoured re-occurring ones, played often.

The little girls took all of this time to complete Week A of along the Alphabet Path. However I am pleased with the progress especially with Moran who seemed to actually"get it." In Church this morning she was pointing our all the letter A's in the Order of Service.

She has seemed very keen to actually make words and yesterday worked out how to write MUM herself. This is a big step forward and both girls are wanting to write complete words. They both write out any letters they can and ask if they make words.

Last week the Children from Autumn down to Rogan choose new Assigned Reading and all the children are very happy with the choices and are progressing very well with them.

Rogan especially is coming along with his reading finally finding books that he will spend free time on instead of playing.

Also craft and making things were done as they were able and Rogan has finished his Christmas presents and the girls have been working steadily on theirs.

They have been using new skills in creating these projects and have been learning patience and perseverance as they learn these skills.

All the children are lloking forward to getting on track tomorrow for a great week.
Blessings,

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♥ Vellvin's Current Reading List

* A Little Bush Maid -Mary Grant Bruce
* Anne of Green Gables-L.M.Montgomery
* Arabian Nights -FolkTale
* Eragon-Christopher Paolini
* In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce- G.A.Henty
* Shadow Hawk-Andre Norton
* Son of Charlemage-BarbaraWillard
* The March to Coomassie -G.A.Henty
* We live in INDIA-Brahm Dev
* White Queen-Donald Mc Farlan
* Wilbur and Orville Wright -Augusta Stevenson

♥ Autumn's Current reading List

# Victory on the Walls-Frieda Clark Hyman
# The Young Colonists-G.A.Henty.
# The Phantom Tollbooth-Norton Juster.
# St. Louis De Montfort-Mary Fabyan Windeatt.
# Redskin and Cowboy-G.A.Henty.
# Isaac Newtonand Gravity-P.M.Rattansi.
# Coorong Captive-Colin Thiele.
# By Sheer Pluck-G.A.Henty.
# All Kinds of Cows-Madeline M. Dodd

♥ Saxon's Current Reading List

* At Aboukir and Acre - G.A.Henty
* Coral Island - R.M. Ballantyne
* Galileo - Jane Gollier
* John of the SIRIUS - Doris Chadwick
* Rifles for Watie - Harold Keith
* Saint Gerard Majella - Father Edward Saint-Omer C.SS.R.
* The dash for Khartoum - G.A.Henty
* The Wright Brothers - Quentin Reynolds
* Winning his spurs - G.A.Henty

♥ Eden's Current Reading List

* A Chapter of Adventures. (G.A. Henty.
* A Treasury of Narnia- The Story of C.S. Lewis and his Chronicles of Narnia(Brian Sibley).
* By Gravel and Gum.( Nancy Keesmg)
* Military helicopters (C . J. Norman).
* Red Falcons of Tremine.(Hendey Peart
* Saint Anthony and the Christ Child
* The Dingle Ridge Fox and other Stories( Sam savitt).
* The Edwardian lady (the story of edith holden).Ian Taylor .
* The Lost Heir (G. A. Henty.
* The Story of King Arthur and his Knights (Howard Pyle).

♥ Rogan's Current Reading List

* Deserts - Nicola Barber
* Little Old Mrs Pepperpot - Alf Proysen
* Ollies Ski Trip - Elsa Beskow
* Once Upon a time Saints - Ethel Pochocki
* Squire Terrence and the Maiden's Knight - Gerald Morris
* The Adventures of Bobby Raccoon - Thornton W Burgess
* Twister Trouble - Magic School Bus Chapter Book

Blessings,

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This week started out fairly slow with Stephen leaving and the children adjusting to this again, while on the tail end of the colds.
Of course with Moran's seizure and hospital visit we really didn't get a start until Wednesday.

They were especially keen to start the Spiderwick study and did a good amount of work on this.
However the weekly testing items were not followed up at all except for the poetry which is a part of the Spiderwick study as well.
There is a fair bit of writing and English work in this and so we are not following Voyages in Literature or others like it.

The only one to follow maths up at all was Saxon and I really need to get better at getting this done with the children.

We did manage to go on a couple of Nature walks and gatherings and had a lovely time with this.

The children also did and impromptu play with filming after dressing up and having definite characters and a plot. They then filmed this on Saxons camera. If only we could buy a video camera I am sure they could produce some great action.

Rogan finished reading the Littles today and was very proud of himself. I need to think up a way to get him to read more, he certainly is able it just doesn't grab him yet. He really would rather do craft and writing stories to illustrate. He did a lot of the spiderwick study himself.

The little ones were fairly independent and after speaking to the doctor I am re thinking our approach to Moran and to Myffwyn also.

Reading aloud was not very well done this week either and I think it was just a week that started off not well and didn't progress past average at all.

I have reminded the children that all Assigned reading must be completed by the end of the month. They tend to get slack and read other books instead.

The Squires Page Series has been read a lot this week by the older girls along with Lucky Luke and other library books.

I am working out plans for the Little Women Study-- at this stage called Orchard House Circle and think I should do one for Saxon especially something along the lines of Rangers for the King perhaps.

We are also contemplating a return to Shakespeare using some of the new resources and reading aloud for the plays after reading Lamb or Nesbit.
We have enough reading people to do this quite successfully and think we will do this once a week and call it Fancy....Shakespeare!

The girls have along with Rogan been posting on their blogs fairly often as well. I still think this is a great way for them to improve their english in all manner of ways.

Some people have been working on Christmas presents as well.

Blessings,

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Well I do need to start even though last week wasn't a good one for actually recording acheivements.

All the children were sick with the cold and some with throwing up as well.
We pretty much ditched any formal plans and the children when they were able read a lot of their assigned reading and anything else they felt like reading, when and if they felt up to it
Some had the cough quite badly and were under the weather for most of the week.
We seem to be at the end with most but a couple are still lingering and I hope they will be back on deck on Monday to start the new plans.

We had been to the library last week and have a box full of interesting library books so these have been passed around too.

Sometimes we played some 'parlor games' and cards as well.
As Stephen was home as well and he was sick too, we also spent time just being together.
Stephen did start the first Spiderwick book as an introduction to the Spiderwick Study we will start next week.

If I can keep this simple I may actually keep a record of what we do instesd of trying to write out a daily achievement list, which has never been finished due to my running out of time and energy for recording about mid week.

Blessings,

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♥♥ AFRICA

At the end of this study you should have a general understanding of the Contenant of Africa: Including it's geographical layout, the people, the animals and other natural wonders.
You should also be able to identify some of the Church's African Saints and what they did and where they came from

♥ Chapter books to read:
* With Kitchener in the Soudan
* At Aboukir and Acre
* By Sheer Pluck
* A Chapter of Adventures
* With Roberts in preoria
* The March to Coomassie
* With Buller in Natal
* Ther Cat of Bubastes
* The Young Colonists
* The Dash for Khartoum............All the above are by G. A. Henty.* The Royal Diaries: Cleopatra VII...Kristiana Gregory
* The Royal Diaries: Nzingha... Patricia McKissac* God King... Joanne Williamson
* Shadow Hawk... Andre Norton
* Beau Geste... P.C. Wren

♥ Information Books
* KINGFISHER : Land and it's People
* Operation World...Patrick Johnstone and Jason Mandryk-- 2001 edition
* Junior Geography...A.J. Herbertson and O.J.R. Howarth
* Grasslands... Jenny Vaughan
* We live in South Africas...Preben Kristensen & Fiona Cameron
* Deserts...Nicola Barber
* Nigeria... the land and it's people...Richard Synge
* A Family from South Africa...Jen Green
* Africa: An Eyewitness book... Yvonne Ayo
* The life of Meat Eaters... Dr Maurice Burton


♥Folk Tales:
- Use the Oak Meadow folk tale book and read through
- this can be read to the little ones as part of your time with them.
- the little ones can draw a narration from each Folk tale and create a book while dictating to an older person the text.
- Listen to the on-line Folk Tales
- more folktales
- and again
- and the other one I have to find the link for
- Favourite African Folk tales

♥ National Geographic Pictures of the World Card Game

♥ Movies...
* George of the Jungle
* King Solomans Mines

♥ Make a passport with your information for traveling around the world
- have a map or Africa on the first page after information about yourself and then colour in the countries as you travel to them
- on the next pages record the vital information about each country you 'visit':

* Flag of the Country visited
* Name of Country
* Name the countries that border you country:
* Name the surrounding Oceans/Seas:
* Capital of Country:
* Pinpoint your country's: Latitiude and Longitude
* Major Language Spoken:
* Major Religion:
* What is the Currency?
* Type of Government:
* Chief Crops:
* Major Industries:
* What is this Country most famous/infamous for?

♥ Country Studies:- choose 6-8 countries to 'travel' to including
* Nigeria (Father Felix is from here, he may be able to help wiyh information)
- 5 others of your choice

* Use the above information from your passport to help you write about each of your selected countries.

♥ Online Fun
* Map Game
* Africa Quiz
* Africa Capitals Quiz
* World Quizzes
* Geography Knowledge
* African Geography : There are many themes here to choose from-
- work your way through these as you choose
* Latitude and Longitude Game

♥ Mapping:
- Draw a map of Africa:
- the capital cities
- neighbouring oceans and countries.
- rivers and mountains
- anything else meaningful
* Use continent Maps( We have a felt one)

♥ Languages to Learn
* World Languages :
* More Languages
Choose the specific African ones

♥ National Anthems
* African countries

♥ African Wildlife
- choose 6 animals and learn more about them :
- record infornatin in book including pictures and the information below....
- common name
- classification information
- physical characteristics
- habits
- food
- predators

* You may use the resources below or any of the texts we have:
* African Wildlife Foundation -
* African Fauna
* Online African jigsaw puzzles

* Printable African book for little ones
* African animals to label for younger ones

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♥ These are the Ideas we brainstormed last week ☺ for our Spiderwick study

♥♥Resources♥♥

♥The Spiderwick books:
- 1) The Field Guide
- 2) The Seeing Stone
- 3) Lucinda's Secret
- 4) The Ironwood Tree
- 5) The Wrath of Mulgarath
- Care and Feeding of Sprites
- Arthur Spiderrwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You
- The Chronicles of Spiderwick: A grand Tour of the Enchanted World, Navigated by Thimbletack

♥ Other books related to the Study:
- How to draw and Paint Fairies...Linda Ravenscroft
- Blue skies, Green Days
- The Burgess Big Book of Flowers (if we can get it)
- The Fairy Series ... Margaret Tarrant
- the Flower Fairy Collection... Cecily Mary Barker
- The Gnome Series books and the Large Gnome Book... Rein Poortuliet and Wil Huggen
- The Rainbow Goblins...
- Fairy House books...
- Shirley Barber books
- Puck the Gnome...
- Catkin...
- Gnomes and Gardens...Nigel Suckling
- The Story of the Root Children, Butterfly Children, Wind Children, Snow Children and the Princess in the Forest... Sybille Von Olfers
- My Side of the Mountain...Jean Craig George
- One Small Square Series
- Fairy Tales: Grim, Anderson, Lang and from other lands
- Naturalist Biographies and works

♥ Read and provide a report on these books

♥ For Independent Reading:
- 5 Children and it
- The Amulet
- The Phoenix and the Carpet
- The Enchanted Castle...... all by E. Nesbit

♥ Beyond Spiderwick
- The Nixie's Song
- A Giant Problem

♥ The Spiderwick Chronicles DVD

♥ Find out about various Fairy Folk from different countries.
- narrate and illustrate

♥ Research Fencing:
- History of
- modern times
- basic moves

♥ Make your own field guide

♥ Collect your own Insect collection

♥ Make an acrostic from Spiderwick and Chronicles

♥ Make up your own quiz

♥ Make snap cards

♥ Make Spiderwick quiz cards

♥ Write a story using fairy folk complete with illustrations

♥ Do a puppet show: Create your own backdrop, scenery, props and puppets.
-Write a script for the puppet show.

♥ Learn Fairy poems and rhymes

♥ Leave milk out for a Brownie

♥ Make a lifesize troll or Goblin and then use it for target practise and fencing practise( like the "buster you have made before"

♥ Geometry: do the various geometry exercise from the maths books( check with me which I would like you to do)

♥ Form drawing: work through the books we have working up to the difficult Celtic knot ones.

♥ Make a "Fairy Folk" activity book for the younger children: include things like
- colouring pages
- mazes
- dot to dot
- spot the differences
- word searches
- crosswords etc.

♥ copy the Spiderwick map

♥ make a fairy treasure chest
- fill with fairy treasure

♥ From our own property - draw map and assign fairy folk to each area

♥ What fairy folk are you? Create characteristics for each type

♥ Make Characters from felt, wood, felted and sewn or other means

♥ Beeswax Theatre Use Evolgia as an example.

♥ Research dumbwaiters and build a miniature one

♥ Research and grow your own mushrooms
- visit mushroom farm down the road
- Also identification of the mushrooms that grow on our property
- Draw and identify from Mushroom and toadstool book

♥ Research recycling; what is recycled, what happens to it, how is it reused etc


♥ Botany: (using the resources from the weekly botany Studies)
- Herbs and their uses
- Herbs in medicine
- Herbs in cooking

♥ Botany books:(still in progress with books)
- Handbook of Nature Study: Anna Botsford Comstock
- Shanleya's Quest... Thomas J. Elpel
- Botany in a Day...Thomas J. Elpel
- Exploring Creation with Botany...Fulbright
- Nature Journaling...Clare Walker Leslie
- The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady... Edith Holden
- The Edwardian Lady... Edith Holden
- Painting Nature in Pen and Inkwith Watercolour... Claudia Nice
- The Sierra Club Guide to Sketching in Nature...Cathy Johnson
- A Kids Herb Book...Leslie Tierra
- Australian and New Zealand Concise Book of Herbs.... Henry B. Cryan
- Christopherus Unit Study: Botony... Donna Simmons
- Montessori for Everyone: Lifecycle of Pumpkin, Apple and Spring Matching Cards
♥ Paint 5 paintings with Fairy folk in them

♥ Look at old houses in Victorian times and the secret passages etc.
- were they all similar in different parts of the wold eg, Britain. USA and Australia
- draw and design an old house with secret passages and attics etc.

♥ Look at the Fairy Houses books
- what are the materials used , can you draw a design of one or more of them.

♥ Make Fairy Houses and the small items for a fairy house.

♥ Read the fairy tale books we have, eg Grimms, Hans Christian Anderson, Tales form Italy etc and the Andrew Lang tales books
- make a list of the ones you read and a short summary of the Fairy tale

♥ List what would be in a fairy folk survival kit
- then make a miniature one that a small doll or "fairy folk" you have made can use

♥ "Fairy Medicine"

♥ Draw different types of fairy's using the sketching guides we have: Particularly-
how to draw and paint Fairies
- use the different techniques so you cover a broad varieties of mediums.

♥ Make a Dragon out of any material and write about it.
- Find out about dragon lore from various sources.
- draw and label different dragons from around the world (use Autumn's calender for this)

♥ Grow different types of tomatoes- do this at the start of the study so you can harvest and use your own tomatoes for the tomato sauce you make

♥ Make tomato Sauce

♥ Learn about Honey
- Magic tree house book
- Read honey books
- visit bee Farm
- Watch -The Bee Movie: How true is this to actual Honey production
- how has honey production changed over the years
- how have bee hives changed
- make a miniature bee Hive



♥ Create your own Fantasy world and make up characters with specific names and roles eg. Albania
- write and illustrate providing a map as well

♥ Research Famous Naturalists- Provide a written and illustrated account of their lives:
- Matthew Flinders
- Amy Mack
- May Gibbs
- Beatrix Potter
- Cecily Mary Barker
- Ernest Thompson Seton
- Henry David Thoreau
- Sterling North
- Thornton Burgess
- Gene Stratton Porter
- Edith Holden
- William Barton
- James Audubon
- Clare Walker Leslie
- any other naturalists you can find

♥ Plan your ideal garden: either vegetable or flowers of mixture and find out about the plants.

♥ Press flowers and herbs
- use these in various decorative plans eg, book marks, to decorate theme pages in your study.

♥ DVD's
- The Spiderwick Chronicles
- Shrek 1, 2, 3,
- Fairytale: a True Story
- Peter Pan- various versions
- The Lord of the Rings series
- Eragon

♥ Nature DVD's
- Beatrix Potter
- Tasha Tudor

♥ Audio Tapes:
- The Secret of the Unicorn
- Beatrix Potter
- Shirley Barber
- Ernest Thompson Seton Downloads from Gutenberg

♥ A Spiderwick Theme Party

♥ Do some of the work pages from Below

♥ Other Great Ideas
-This is from Therese at Lapaz Home learning

Tony DiTerlizzi's Blog for information about the books

-Great Activity pages on the Spiderwick home page.
♥♥♥

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I saw at Hill Top Farm where I got this copy from and I want to save it for future reference and the best place is here where I can reference it.

Homeschool: Free or cheap homeschool ideas ...
I saw this (via Elizabeth's sharing) on Two Thirds Unschooling and it looks like a great list/resource. Before looking at this list and spending hours (and tons of money) printing out everything you see: PLEASE, PLEASE use discretion ... sometimes it's cheaper to find a hard-copy of these resources, or some of the information on these pages is erroneous or doesn't agree with your world-view. Please use discretion. If there are any sites that you know of that are free or inexpensive, please let me know and I'll add them. In this economy (especially if you dh work for the Catholic Church) free or cheap is a real bonus!

Early Learning:
1. Starfall - Teaches alphabet and early reading skills. www.starfall.com
2. Brightly Beaming Resources - Letter of the week, sound of the week, science of the week, etc. This is a good all-around site for early learning.http://www.letteroftheweek.com/
3. Rhyme a weekhttp://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/g....htm#This_Week
4. Enchanted Learning - Not really free, but a lot can be accessed without paying (membership is $20 donation/year per family)http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
Whole Curriculum:
1. Ambleside Online - Charlotte Mason. Wonderful resource that includes lots of info and is really a full curriculum option. Great booklist!http://amblesideonline.org/index.shtml
2. An Old-Fashioned Education - Another really complete option. LOTS of stuff to look at and use here!http://oldfashionededucation.com/
3. Puritans' Home School - I have heard good things, but have never used this. VERY religious site, but it does appear pretty complete.http://www.puritans.net/curriculum/
4. Core Knowledge lesson plans - Tons of lesson plans on lots of subjects from PK-8. I have not used this, but it looks really good.http://www.coreknowledge.org/CK/resr...sons/index.htm
5. About.com Homeschooling section (not really a whole curriculum, but TONS of stuff)http://homeschooling.about.com/
6. Tanglewood Educationhttp://www.tanglewoodeducation.com/
7. The Baltimore Projecthttp://www.cstone.net/~bcp/BCPIntro2.htm
8. PASS Materials (FL)http://www.pass.leon.k12.fl.us/default.aspx
9. Paula's Archiveshttp://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/
10. EdSITEmenthttp://www.edsitement.neh.gov/
11. Mater Amabilis (Catholic Charlotte Mason Curriculum)http://materamabilis.org/
Unit Studies:
1. Homeschool Share - Lots and lots and LOTS of projects and unit studies. http://www.homeschoolshare.com/
2. A Journey Through Learning Inventor unit study and lapbook. Click on Free products http://ajourneythroughlearning.com/
3. H.I.P. Pocket Change. Several Lesson Plans revolving around money
http://www.usmint.gov/kids/teachers/lessonPlans/
4. Homeschool Helperhttp://www.homeschoolhelperonline.com/units.htm
5. Oceanographyhttp://www.currclick.com/product_inf...roducts_id=243
6. SCORE Cyberguideshttp://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
7. Eyeshttp://www.aaofoundation.org/what/heritage/
8. Birds Notebooking pageshttp://www.currclick.com/product_inf...ers=0_0&free=1
9. Nature Studyhttp://handbookofnaturestudy.blogspot.com/
10. Canadahttp://www.knowledgequestmaps.com/canadaunit.htm
Math:
1. Ray's Arithmetic - 1885 math book on google books. Thorough and "back to basics". (click on the icon on the page and scroll down to read/print)http://books.google.com/books?id=eop...age&q=&f=false
2. CSMP materials - K-6http://ceure.buffalostate.edu/~csmp/...ram/index.html
3. First Lessons in Arithmetic - 1878 math texthttp://www.donpotter.net/math.htm
4. NC public school math program K-2http://community.learnnc.org/dpi/mat...s_k2_resou.php
5. Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (UK) - AKA MEPhttp://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mep/default.htm
6. Living Math History (lessons on right)http://livingmath.net/LessonPlans/C1...S/Default.aspx
7. Pearson Scott Foresman K-5http://pgcounty.scottforesman.com/
8. Geogebra (Algebra and Geometry)http://www.geogebra.org/cms/
9. Oakes Mathhttp://dorioakes.bravehost.com/Math.html
10. Eduplace printable workbooks
http://www.eduplace.com/math/hmm/practice/lp_1.htmlhttp://www.eduplace.com/math/hmm/practice/lp_2.htmlhttp://www.eduplace.com/math/hmm/practice/lp_3.htmlhttp://www.eduplace.com/math/hmm/practice/lp_4.htmlhttp://www.eduplace.com/math/hmm/practice/lp_2.htmlhttp://www.eduplace.com/math/hmm/practice/lp_3.htmlhttp://www.eduplace.com/math/hmm/practice/lp_4.html http://www.eduplace.com/math/hmm/practice/lp_5.htmlhttp://www.eduplace.com/math/hmm/practice/lp_6.htmland activities that coordinate with this programhttp://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmm/
11. Middle/High school mathhttp://go.hrw.com/gopages/ma-msm.html
12. McDougal Littell Math Coursehttp://www.classzone.com/cz/books/ms...e.htm?state=MNhttp://www.classzone.com/cz/books/ms...e.htm?state=MNhttp://www.classzone.com/cz/books/ms...e.htm?state=MNhttp://www.classzone.com/cz/books/pr...e.htm?state=MNhttp://www.classzone.com/cz/books/al...e.htm?state=MNhttp://www.classzone.com/cz/books/ge...e.htm?state=MNhttp://www.classzone.com/cz/books/al...e.htm?state=MN
13. Missouri Schools program (including TM/answers)http://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/msma...e/index.php/mohttp://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/msma...e/index.php/mohttp://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/msma...e/index.php/mohttp://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/prea.../index.php4/mohttp://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/alge.../index.php4/mo
14. Glencoe Workbookshttp://www.glencoe.com/sites/georgia...workbooks.html
15. Public Schools of NC math program http://community.learnnc.org/dpi/mat...s_k2_resou.php
Math Drill:
1. Math Magician Gameshttp://resources.oswego.org/games/ma...cathymath.html
2. Printable math worksheetshttp://www.mathfactcafe.com/
3. Math U See (online)http://mathusee.com/drill.html
4. Math worksheets to create and print (some portions pay)http://themathworksheetsite.com/
5. Timez Attack (multiplication video game - way cool) - basic is freehttp://www.bigbrainz.com/indexd.php
6. Harcourt activities http://harcourtschool.com/menus/math2002/na/gr1.htmlhttp://harcourtschool.com/menus/math2002/na/gr2.htmlhttp://harcourtschool.com/menus/math2002/na/gr3.htmlhttp://harcourtschool.com/menus/math2002/na/gr4.htmlhttp://harcourtschool.com/menus/math2002/na/gr5.htmlhttp://harcourtschool.com/menus/math2002/na/gr6.html
7. Learn to play chess (I guess this is math...haha)http://chesskids.com/
Phonics:
1. Word Masteryhttp://donpotter.net/PDF/Word%20Mastery%20-%20Typed.pdf
2. Starfall (learn to read online)http://www.starfall.com/
3. Blend Phonicshttp://www.donpotter.net/Blend%20Phonics.htm
4. Sadler-Oxfordhttp://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/student.cfm
5. Progressive Phonicshttp://www.progressivephonics.com/
6. Society for Quality Education http://www.societyforqualityeducatio...stairway2.html/
Literature/Reading Guides and Units:
1. Novel Study Guides for the Classroom Teacherhttp://www.nt.net/~torino/novels3.html
2. Reading Units by Gay Millerhttp://www.mce.k12tn.net/units/units_with_books.htm
3. Garden of Praisehttp://www.gardenofpraise.com/lesson.htm
4. Glencoe Literature Guideshttp://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/
5. Literature Activity Guides by Nancy Polette - These are samples, but are in depth enough to test if your child understood the story.http://www.nancypolette.com/litguides.asp
6. SCORE Cyberguides (California schools)http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/SCORE/cyberguide.html
7. Dangerous Journey (Pilgrim's Progress for kids version) study guidehttps://www.visionvideo.com/pdf/DangJourney.pdf
8. Course in nature study: for grades one and two - Detroit Public Schoolshttp://books.google.com/books?id=i8EOAAAAMAAJ
9. Nature-study: a manual for teachers and students http://books.google.com/books?id=C4EWAAAAIAAJ
10. Readquarium (mostly games)http://www.gamequarium.com/readquarium/index.html
11. Harcourt GuidesGrade 1http://harcourtschool.com/menus/trophies/grade_1.html
Grade 2http://harcourtschool.com/menus/trophies/grade_2.html
Grade 3http://harcourtschool.com/menus/trophies/grade_3.html
Grade 4http://harcourtschool.com/menus/trophies/grade_4.html
Grade 5http://harcourtschool.com/menus/trophies/grade_5.html
Grade 6http://harcourtschool.com/menus/trophies/grade_6.html
12. National Park Servicehttp://www.nps.gov/history/
Free Books:
1. Classical Education Libraryhttp://www.classical-education.net/
2. Kids4Classicshttp://www.kids4classics.com/
3. Project Gutenberghttp://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
4. Online Library of Libertyhttp://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php...icxt&Itemid=29
5. Google Bookshttp://books.google.com/books
6. The Baldwin Projecthttp://www.mainlesson.com/main/displ...icle=christmas
7. Planet eBookhttp://www.planetebook.com/
8. 19th Century Schoolbookshttp://digital.library.pitt.edu/nietz/
9. Librivox - Free online audiobookshttp://librivox.org/
10. Storynory - Free online audiobookshttp://storynory.com/
11. Free Books onlinehttp://www.wowio.com/
12. Magic Keyshttp://www.magickeys.com/books/
13. Fun Brainhttp://www.funbrain.com/brain/Readin...dingBrain.html
14. Interactive Story Bookshttp://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch...nlinestory.htm/
15. Stories about American Heroeshttp://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
Art:
1. Dick Blick Lessonshttp://www.dickblick.com/lessonplans/
2. Meet the Mastershttp://www.getinvolvedineducation.co...ram-manual.pdf/
3. A Lifetime of Colorhttp://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/main.taf?p=1
4. Teach Art at Homehttp://www.teachartathome.com/FreeProjectCurrent.html
Teacher helps (planning/support):
1. Donna Young - Tons of planning stuff, including some things like handwriting masters.donnayoung.org
2. Homeschool Inc. - Online planning software (very versatile)http://home-school-inc.com/
3. Homeschool Tracker (planning software - basic free, full pay)http://homeschooltracker.com/
4. Online Lesson Planner, Scheduler, and Trackerhttp://www.homeschoolskedtrack.com/H...isplayLogin.do
5. Super Teacher Worksheets. Lots of well done worksheets for all subject areas. Grade level 1st-4thhttp://www.superteacherworksheets.com/index.html
6. Free Formshttp://www.oklahomahomeschool.com/forms.html
7. Freebie of the dayhttp://www.homeschoolfreebie.wholesomechildhood.com/
8. Currclick. They feature a free product once a week to download. It usually changes Monday afternoonshttp://www.currclick.com/index.php
9. Freely educate. Lots of great links herehttp://www.freelyeducate.com/
10. Hoagies Gifted. Tons of Free high school curriculum linkshttp://www.hoagiesgifted.org/online_hs.htm
11. Education Worldhttp://educationworld.com/
12. Internet Activities to coordinate with each grade and subjecthttp://www.gsc.amdsb.ca/
13. Scholastichttp://www2.scholastic.com/browse/learn.jsp
14. Softschoolshttp://www.softschools.com/
15. Videos (creationist site -- have not used)http://www.answersingenesis.org/kids/videos
16. Worksheetshttp://www.worksheetworks.com/miscel...rganizers.html
17. Charlotte Mason stuff (not all free)http://simplycharlottemason.com/
18. FossWeb by Delta Education. Click on the subject, then teacher resources. You will then have to click on Teacher Prep videos for the lessons. Everything else on the page supports the lessons. There are games, worksheets, and many additional resources listedhttp://www.fossweb.com/modules3-6/index.html
19. Higher Up and Further In bloghttp://higherupandfurtherin.blogspot.com/
20. Pioneer Woman bloghttp://thepioneerwoman.com/
21. Well-Trained Mindwelltrainedmind.com/forums/
22. Teacher Tubehttp://www.teachertube.com/
Science:
1. Engineering for kids ages 8 and up. Single subject lesson plans. Nicely done and easy to understandhttp://www.welltrainedmind.com/forum...ree+curriculum
2. Earth Awareness Curriculum for Middle Schoolershttp://cygnus-group.com/use-less-stuff/NSTA.html
3. Life Science Curriculumhttp://www.eequalsmcq.com/Thank%20yo...%20Science.htm
4. Otter’s Sciencehttp://www.guesthollow.com/homeschoo...ence_main.html
5. K-12 Sciencehttp://www.msnucleus.org/curriculum/curriculum.html
6. Take a Cloud Walk (Cloud unit)http://www.takeawalk.com/cloud-walk/
7. Science plans for 6th grade based on the "Prentice-Hall Life Science" bookhttp://www.smithlifescience.com/
8. Hands-On Technology Programhttp://www.galaxy.net/~k12/
9. NASA for educatorshttp://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html
10. Science Songshttp://www.acme.com/jef/singing_science/
11. Invitations to Science Inquiryhttp://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/eri...0/1e/27/27.pdf
12. Science Videoshttp://www.teachersdomain.org/
13. Animal Unitshttp://www.scribd.com/people/documen...06/folder/1072
14. Animal Activity Packshttp://www.kidszoo.org/education/zaps.htm
15. Videos that demonstrate experiments for every element on the periodic tablehttp://www.periodicvideos.com/
16. Click on the element and then on the microphone to hear about the elementhttp://www.webelements.com/
17. Inventor's Timelinehttp://inventors.about.com/od/timeli...Nineteenth.htm
18. BODIES, the exhibition ~ includes educator guides for various grade levels from Carnegie Science Center. Even if you aren't interested in the exhibit or pictures of the preserved bodies, there is good info in the guides that can be used for lessons:http://wheresciencehappens.org/bodiesguide.htm
Computer Science:
1. Blender 3D animation creationhttp://www.blender.org/
2. Computer Programming Coursehttp://www.alice.org/index.php
3. Computer Training Courseshttp://www.gcflearnfree.org/computer/
4. Computer Animating and Designhttp://scratch.mit.edu/
Typing:
1. Online typing Coursehttp://www.goodtyping.com/
2. Dance Mat Typinghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/
3. Touch Typing (Online)http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/
4. Kiran's Typing Tutorhttp://www.kiranreddys.com/products/typing.html
5. Learn2Typehttp://www.learn2type.com/
Foreign Language:
1. BBC Languageshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/
2. Elementary/Middle School beginning Spanish. The first book listed is a free download.http://nflrc.iastate.edu/pubs/units/unitsList.html
3. Greek and Latinhttp://www.textkit.com/
4. FSI Language Courseshttp://fsi-language-courses.com/default.aspx
5. Live Mocha - This is a social site, so you may want to monitor your kids closely on this one.http://www.livemocha.com/
6. OFS (Online free spanish)http://www.onlinefreespanish.com/
7. Spanish Unlimitedhttp://www.spanishunlimited.com/
8. Latin Resourceshttp://www.cdacademy.com/class/2007/...-games-online/http://www.gettingstartedwithlatin.com/http://hungryfrog.com/classics.htmlhttp://homeschool.online.program.lat...lyfishfun.com/http://www.memoriapress.com/help/Latin.htm
9. French Resourceshttp://www.poissonrouge.com/http://lexiquefle.free.fr/learn-french.htm
10. Boca Beth (Spanish)http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...rch_type=&aq=f
11. Salsa (Spanish)http://www.gpb.org/salsa/term/episodes
12. Mommy Teach Me Spanishhttp://www.youtube.com/results?searc...rch_type=&aq=f
13. In the Beginning Greekhttp://www.inthebeginning.org/
Home Economics/Life Skills:
1. Future Christian Homemakers (Have not used or looked into this)http://www.futurechristianhomemakers...sonsindex.html/3
2. Notebooking Pageshttp://www.notebookingpages.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=76&products_id=223&zenid=8aa27600566a8377555bc3631269ff94
3. Health and Nutrition:1. http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/educators/lessons-main.asp
Virtual Field Trips:
1. Take a field Triphttp://www.uen.org/tours/fieldtrips2.shtml
2. Meet Me at the Cornerhttp://www.meetmeatthecorner.org/
High School/College (have not used these or looked closely at them):
1. HippoCampus Free Courseshttp://www.hippocampus.org/
2. Mixed Courses in many subjectshttp://www.free-ed.net/free-ed/
3. Printable Courses in all subject areas. Not sure who funds this one, but I like how the curriculum is laid outhttp://www.pass.leon.k12.fl.us/Speci...t%20Areas.aspx
4. University of Berkley Courses. Tons of Free Courses available herehttp://webcast.berkeley.edu/
5. Yale University Open Courses. Nicely done and easy to access IMOhttp://oyc.yale.edu/
6. University of Washington free courseshttp://www.outreach.washington.edu/openuw/
7. M.I.T. open Courseware. Tons of completely free courses in many subjectshttp://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm




Blessings,

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FAITH:

♥ The Month of the Immaculate Heart of Mary ♥
- 2nd Our Lady of the Angels
- 4th St Dominic
- 5th Dedication of the Basilica of St Mary Major in Rome (Our Lady of the Snows)
- 6th Transfiguration of Our Lord
- 8th Blessed Mary McKillop
- 8th St JohnMary Vianny( The Cure Of Ars)
- 9th St Theresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
- 11th St Philomena
- 12th St Clare of Assisi
- 14th St Maximillian Kolbe
- 14th Vigil of the Assumption
- 15th Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- 16th St Joachim
- 17th St Hyacinth of Poland
- 18th St Helena
- 21st St Pius X
- 21st Our Lady of Knock
- 22nd Feast of the Queenship of Mary
- 24th Our Lady, Health of the Sick
- 24th St Bartholomew the Apostle
- 26th Our Lady of Czestochowa
- 27th St Monica
- 28th St Augustine
- 29th Beheading of John the Baptist
- 30th St Rose of Lima

♥ HOMEMAKING:
- make sure we have a heap of hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows and our favourite Snowflake cookies.
- make a night of baked potatoes with the works
- try different citrus fruits that are in season
- dry some orange slices for Christmas prepartions
- make some old fashioned 'candies' from books
- have a back to back film feast of our favourite trilogy movies
- start looking at what we need to o for Spring Cleaning ie. washing all the blankets and quilts
- make some Gingerbread cookies( we usually only have these for Christmas so will have to do them quite different.)
-Make Snowmen out of Marshmallow- have a contest to see who makes the best one
- watch my Tasha Tudor DVD's for inspiration and relaxation
- make and wear Aprons of different styles
- make little pinafore aprons for little girls
- check the spring summer clothes and make a list of any future needed purchases
- make a list of books needed for Christmas studies and other Lesson studies
- make the little girls Mob Caps
- make Arwen a Sunbonnet

♥ CRAFTS:
-Continue to make silk puppets for story telling(Me)
-Make some wooden painted or felt saints
-Make Shadow puppets
-Make silhouettes
-Build a bird house for birds to nest in for spring
-Make some new items for Month of Immaculate Heart of Mary.
-Make some 'mantel letters' for Bookcase display.
-Freshen up the notice board as it looks tired.
-Make the Seasons Round Exchange Projects for sending off
-Make Catkin children on branch
- make fences and railings for young ones play
- make plywood doll houses that string together as rooms
- make wooden dolls for Arwen, carved from branches
- make a large horse type animal for outside for playing on
- continue with making of Christmas presents
- start to make crib figures for Christmas and work on thes over the next few months
- make awnings for playstand
- make a folding play house or camp for little ones
- embroidery workshop

♥ NATURE:
- watch for the migrating birds coming and going.
- observe the changing daily patterns of the Wallabies, possums, water birds, ducks, rabbits, and other small birds we see regularly.
-Choose one Small square and see how nature varies within over a period of 3 weeks

♥ GOALS:
- Make sure Breakfast is started on time with everyone together and the Devotional Readings and Saint for the Day.
- To have Lesson time start on time each day.
- Continue early rising for early night routine
- Have Night time routine down pat: Dinner, clean up, teeth , prepare little ones if not done earlier, Bible Story, Rosary, Night Time Read aloud. Then off to bed for Eden down for Private reading time. Prayers individually and My Good night Prayers with them.
Older children free time (or help get 3 youngest to sleep, not Arwen, if needed) and work on Assignments or free time for personal activities or Reading.
- keep my desk tidy
- have all my lesson plans completed and computer areas tidy
- plan an exercise programme that actually is achievable for all(me included)
- set up an obsticle course for children to navigate when ever they want

♥ RITUALS:
- have as many read alouds by the fire as possible
- change the liturgical bookcase to the Immaculate Heart theme.
- change the seasons table and areas to reflect a new look for this last month of winter.
- check liturgical colours for Mr Pine and Altar daily and change them -- rotate whose 'job' this can be.
- continue with 15 minute cleaning jobs and daily chore list
- keep the 5 min tidy up happening
♥ LEARNING:
-Finish Indian Study as it isn't progressing well
- Plan together and start a Spiderwick Literature Themed Study
- continue with Africa in Geography(from lesson plans that aren't published yet)
- continue reading at Lunch time--current book The Heroic Messenger
- do circle time EVERY day with little ones
- encourage Rogan's reading
- captivate Moran and Myffwyn's interest in learnign to read.
- prepare Rogan for First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion
- have a story telling night with people coming in character, based upon the Medieval ritual of feasting with the bard telling stories.
- adapt Shakespeare Plans to suit our needs
- adapt Liturature for The Young Lady to our needs for the older girls
- especially celebrate St Rose's feast day as this is one of Autumn's confirmation saints.
- also on the 8th as the Cure of Ars is one of our family favourite saints and Saxon is especially looking to him for Confirmation.
- look at the twoPolar regions and compare the two; discover what animals live on each
- make an igloo out of sugar cubles
♥ SPECIAL DAYS:
- 9th Nanny's Birthday
- 13th Stephen's Birthday
- 14th Hans Christian Anderson's Birthday
- 28th Kynan's Birthday

-28th Tasha Tudor Day(we will do this on the 29th)
- More details for this to be sorted out in lesson plans BEFORE the day arrives

Have a most enjoyable and Blessed month ♥
Blessings,

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♥ Autumn's current reading list: Late July

The Young Colonists-G.A.Henty.
The Robe-Lloyd C. Douglas.
The Complete Father Brown-G.K.Chesterton.
Redskin and Cowboy-G.A.Henty.
Pride And Prejudice-Jane Austen.
John of the Sirius-Doris Chadwick.
Johann Gutenberg-Michael Pollard.
God King-Joanne Williamson.
Elsie at the Worlds Fair-Martha Finley
A Television Studio-R.J.Unstead.

♥ Eden's Current Reading List: Late July

Arctos the Grizzly - Rhoda Leonard.
Dear America: The Girl who Chased Away Sorrow - Ann Turner
Escape to Murray River - Robert Elmer
History of Costume - Tim Healey
Saint Francis of the Seven Seas - Albert J. Nevins
The Dash for Kartoum - G.A.Henty
The Little Duke - Charlotte Yonge
The Queen's Cup - G. A .Henty
The Royal Diaries: Cleopatra the 7th Daughter of the Nile - Kristiana Gregory.
The Shadow of the Bear - By Regina Doman

♥ Vellvin's Current Reading List: Late July

Anne of Green Gables-L.M.Montgomery
Catholic tales for Boys and Girls -Caroline Houslander
Children of Summer-Margaret J. Anderson
Eragon-Christopher Paolini
In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce- G.A.Henty
Nzingha Warrior: Queen of Matamba- Patricia Mckissack
Peter Pan- James M.Barrie
Saint Catherine Laboure - Alma Power-Waters
Spain is my country -Bernice and Cliff Moon
The Cat of Bubastes- G.A.Henty
The Reb and the Redcoats - Constance Savery
Two at Sullivan Bay - Nance Donkin

♥ Saxon's Current Reading List: Late July

A first guide to Russia - Kath Davies
Beau Geste - P.C.Wren
Cleared for Action - Stephen W. Meader
Gift and Mystery - Pope John Paul 2nd
Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craighead George
One of the 28th - G.A.Henty
The Bushrangers - William Joy and Tom Prior
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
With Buller in Natal - G.A.Henty

Rogan's Reading List: Late July

Babushka's Mother Goose -Patricia Polacco
Daniels Duck - Clyde Robert Bulla
Kaya and the River Girl - Janet Beeler Shaw
Little Grey Rabbit's Washing Day - Alison Uttley
Peter and Lotta's Adventure - Elsa Beskow
Tales of Trotter Street - Shirley Hughes
The Apple and the Arrow - Conrad Buff
The Courage of Sarah Noble - Alice Dalgliesh
The Festival of Stones: Autumn and Winter Tales - Reg Down
The Littles - John Peterson


Blessings,

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♥In an effort to be more organised with reading to the little ones. I have spoken before about these widgets and how I love the visual effect and the reminder for me. I think having Rogan's list here will be good for him as a 'written' reminder for my reluctant reader.☺
So below is this coming weeks selections.♥





Blessings,

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Faith:
♥Month of the Most Precious Blood
1st Feast of the Precious Blood
2nd Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth
3rd St Thomas
4th Our Lady of Refuge
6th St Maria Goretti
8th St Elizabeth of Portugal
9th St Thomas More
11th St Benedict
14th Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha
16th Our Lady of Mount Carmel
18th St Camillus de Lellis
19th St Vincent de Paul
23rd St Brigid of Sweeden
25th St Christopher & St James the Greater
26th St Anne
29th St Martha
31st St Ignatius of Loyola

♥Homemaking:
Use lots of candles and lanterns
Vary the monthly menu
Make some more vegetarian Meals (where's my list Erin)
A variety of home made bread
Fruit bread
Make some winter deserts
Have cleaning routine working efficiently
Make some salve from natural products
Make a cough mixture using herbs
Make sure all Church clothes, books, Hankies and Envelope are ready on Saturday night
Learn and play together a variety of 'Parlor Games'
Make the Fleece seasonal tree for Winter
Return to the Sunday is Special routine from pre house building
Plan the Garden for Spring: use cataloges and books


♥Crafts:
Start making Christmas presents
Make whipping Snow (A child's Seasonal Treasury)
Potato print paper
Make a Gnomes pouch and gnome for it
Decorate some candles
Roll some bees wax candles
Make some candle holders from clay and wood
Make a winter fairy or Angel
Make some transparencies and put on windows
Make a lantern (glass jar or can with holes or paper star)
Make some little walnut boats, cradles with little babies etc
Carving from drift wood and other finds
Make silk puppets for story telling(Me)
Make some wooden painted or felt saints
Make some more people for the Birthday ring
Make items for seasons table
Make bulletin board items
Use natural materials for weekly craft lesson

♥Nature:
Have a snow day - travel to the mountains and spend the day
Winter beach combing
Winter picnic

♥Goals:
Have everyone familiar with the weights/yoga/exercise programme
Early rising FOR ALL
Have all preparation for lessons done the night before
Concentrate on Routines rather than time frames
Keep Story Sacks going
Continue circle time for little ones
Actually e-mail Erin with the Accountability stuff
Focus on daily rhythm in our family situation
Keep my desk/work area tidy daily
Have all the feast day crafts prepared ahead of time
♥Rituals:
Encourage older children reading to younger children more
Have a story telling night: present own or fairytale either read aloud, with puppets of mimed etc
Sing while we work not 'canned' music
Evening soft music playing
Have "the bookcase" set up with the Winter Theme
Also include the Month of The Precious Blood display
Add more things to Winter bulletin board
Continue with Daily chore routine and 15 min jobs
Daily outside time for all
Daily Rosary
Keep family altar fresh
Keep the Winter Seasons table interesting and tidy
Have sit down together lunch
Read Bible and have read aloud time at night
Friday cooking day of goodies
Have 'older kid with little kid time'
♥Learning:
Learn to sing and say Grace in Latin
Vary the Grace's we say; learn some new ones
Teach some of the old Hymns I taught the older children
Indian Unit study continue on with this
Geography study using Serendipity and Marilyn's resources as well as others, we are loving this
Use nature Journals frequently as part of Indian study
Learn Winter related poems
Paint weekly
Do circle time with the little ones
Have a few Montessori lessons planned for each day for little ones
Story sacks and activities
Lunch time read aloud
Follow new lesson plans
Learn the Rosary parts off by heart;
The Mysteries, the reading and meditation and the fruit of the Mystery
Do as many Liturgical and feast days as we can fit in
Use Catholic Mosaic books for the month
♥Special Days:
6th Autumn's birthday
19th Eden's birthday
30th Mama's Birthday
Enjoy your Month
Blessings

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♥This weeks Set Picture book Story Sack...☺



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I found this really cool way of displaying the books I will use for the week with the little ones.
This Amazon carousel Widget. I LOVE how it displays the books I am going to use.
In case no one has noticed I am a very visual person and I really like seeing what I am doing with planning, which leads to this gadget.
I plan on using this as a reminder each week, displaying different books I will use for the little ones.
These are the books I will be adding to our variation of the talked about Story Sack.
I have often resorted to putting the little ones learning in a bag like our Birthday and Christmas bags.
Sometimes it is just the books, sometimes it has other related ideas as well, or it could be just whole heap of Learning based ideas for the week.
It is a season that comes and goes. I am renewing it though and these will be the first lot of books in the Story Sack

Blessings,

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Rogans Daily Learning Plans
♥MONDAY♥

♥ Circle time...

♥ English...
- Voyages in Language
- write out poem and learn
- write out spelling words and learn
- practise memory verse
- listen to Italian tape
- listen to Lingua Angelica
- read aloud to little one(Golden book or equivelent)
- read aloud to older person

♥ Maths...
- Dorothy Harrer: Maths
- profax
- Saxon maths pages
- times tables practise

♥ Australian History...
- read Australian book
- write paragraph
- draw picture or model or make something

♥ Bible...
-read
-narrate
-draw picture

♥ Practise music...

♥ Handcraft...
- work on current project

♥TUESDAY♥

♥ Circle time...

♥ English...
- Lessons in English..Dorothy Harrer
- practise poem
- practise memory verse
- practise spelling
- listen to Italian
- listen to Lingua Angelica
- read aloud to little ones(A first book)
- read aloud to older person
- copy work: use memory verse

♥ Maths...
- Oak Meadow
- Form drawing
- Saxon maths pages
- times tables practise

♥ Nature and Science...
- do Science experiment

♥ Geography...
- work on the current Geography project

♥ Bible...
- read Bible
- narrate
- draw picture

♥ Practise music...

♥WEDNESDAY♥

♥ Circle time

♥ Unit Study...
- Indians
- Read part of a chapter book
- do an activity
- look at and read part of information book
1. record information
2. draw information

♥ Sunday Reading Preparation...

♥ Acorn Grove submission...

♥ Science Experiment...
- do experiment
1. Copy how to
2. Record results

♥ Catholic Mosaic...
- read and do activity

♥ CGS presentation...

♥ Nature Journal...
- observe and draw from nature
OR
- draw from nature journal books

♥ Art and Music Appreciation...
- listen to CD about Composer
- observe art work and copy

♥ Music lesson...

♥ Music practise...

♥ Sports Day...
- basket ball/table tennis/ soccer


♥THURSDAY♥

♥ Circle time...

♥ English...
- Emma Serle
- practise poem
- practise spelling
- practise memory verse
- listen to Italian
- listen to Lingua Angelica
- copy work
- read to little ones (picture maths book)
- read to older person

♥ Maths...
- Gnomes and Gnumbers
- form drawing
- first lesson in numbers
- practise times tables

♥ Geography...
- do selected geography plans

♥ Botany...
-read about flower fairies from Mrs Applebee
- Draw a four square and write
1. Botanical information
2. Plant Indications
3. Folklore
4. Draw Plant

♥ First Holy Communion Preparation...
- read St Josph Catechism
- read Father Lovasik book
1. Confession
2. The Mass
3. Saints
4. Others

♥ Music practise...

♥FRIDAY♥

♥ Circle time

♥ English...
- spelling test
- memory verse test
- poem test
- listen to Italian
- listen to Lingua Angelica
- read to little ones (free choice)
- read aloud to older person
- Dictation test


♥ Maths...
- profax
- Saxon maths pages
- times table tests
- other maths books:eg..Pentominoes etc

♥ Unit Study...
Indian study
- Read part of a chapter book
- Read information book
1. record information
2 Draw information
- Make an activity

♥ Craft...
- work on assigned craft

♥ Nature and Science...
- read from Animal book
1. Narrate
2. Draw
- read form basic science book
1. Narrate
2. Draw

♥ Music practise...

Work hard Rogan ☺☺

♥♥♥

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Moran and Myffwyn's Daily Learning Plans:
♥ MONDAY♥

♥ Circle time

♥English...
- Mummy read bible -listen and draw /write sentence
- Christopherous first grade
1. story and work
- sand paper letters
- corn meal writing
- chalkboard writing
- CHC cards
- learn poem
- learn memory verse
- Montessori practical life activity
- matching game
- cutting and gluing
- Mummy read stories aloud

♥Nature and Science...
-mummy read nature book
1. draw picture
2. label picture

♥Maths...
-Christopherus first grade
- do activities
-Mummy read aloud from math picture boooks
- counting with shells
- counting on 100 bead string
- write numbers down
- use cusineer rods
- Montessori math activities

♥Botony...
-Mummy read Flower Fairy story from Serendipity
1. Cut out or draw the plant
2.Label or write sentence.

♥ TUESDAY♥

♥ Circle time

♥English...
- Mummy read bible -listen and draw /write sentence
Oak Meadow
1. story and work
- sand paper letters
- corn meal writing
- chalkboard writing
- CHC cards
- learn poem
- learn memory verse
- Montessori practical life activity
- matching game
- cutting and gluing
- practise writing with Jan Brett letters
- Mummy read stories aloud

♥ Geography...
- listen to any stories
- colour in maps
- do passport
- listen to online stories
- do any craft

♥ Maths...
-Oak Meadow first grade
- counting with counters
- counting into groups with counters
- match number with , counters and cards
- form drawing
- do measuring with steps etc
- Montessori math activities

♥ Science and Nature...
-do simple science experiment

♥ WEDNESDAY♥

♥ Circle time

♥English...
- Mummy read bible -listen and draw /write sentence
- Serendipity -Mrs Applebee
1. story and work
- sand paper letters
- corn meal writing
- practise writing - Jan Brett
- CHC cards
- word families
- finding colour or letter things, eg 7 blue things or 4 things that start with c
- learn memory verse
- Montessori practical life activity
- cutting and gluing
- Mummy read stories aloud

♥ Indian Unit Study...
- do any colouring
- listen to stories
- do any crafts
- look at books
-

♥Maths...
- Gnomes and Gnumbers
- counting with jewels
- first lesson in numbers
- write numbers down
- match number cards
- card games ie, concentration
- Montessori math activities

♥ Science and Nature...
- Mummy read Science book
1. draw picture
- nature walk
1. collect items to bring back and draw

♥ Cathecism...
-CGS presentation
-mummy read various catechism books
-learn set prayers
-
♥ Art and Music...
- listen to the Music appreciation CD
- look at Art work and memorise


♥THURSDAY♥

♥ Circle time

♥English...
- Mummy read bible -listen and draw /write sentence
- Waldorf Homeschooling Series-Melissa Nielson
1. story and work
- Waldorf letters form books: photocopied
- sand paper letters
- corn meal writing
- chalkboard writing
- CHC cards
- learn poem
- learn memory verse
- Montessori practical life activity
- matching game
- cutting and gluing
- Mummy read stories aloud

♥ Handcrafts...
- learn to finger knit
- do basic button hole stitch around doll etc
- needle felting

♥Maths...
- Dorothy Harrer
- Saxon maths pages
- threading
1. matching patterns
2. random
-sorting into
1. colours
2.types etc
- finding amount counting game eg; 4 spoons,
- Montessori math activities

♥Botony...
-Mummy read Flower Fairy story from Serendipity
1. Cut out or draw the plant
2.Label or write sentence.

♥FRIDAY

♥ Circle time

♥English...
- Mummy read bible -listen and draw /write sentence
- Ruth Beechick three books series
1. story and work
- sand paper letters
- corn meal writing
- chalkboard writing
- CHC cards
- learn poem
- learn memory verse
- Montessori practical life activity
- Candy land game
- Guess Who game
- Mummy read stories aloud

♥ Art and Craft...
- do waldorf painting
- free style painting
- look at Artist paintings and memorise.

♥Maths...
-Melissa Nielson maths stuff
- other books on amthsie, The Maths tool box etc.
- mummy read maths picture book
- counting with shells
- counting on 100 bead string
- make specific groups
- do basic word problems
- write numbers down
- use cusineer rods
- Montessori math activities

♥ Nature...
-read books on birds etc
- go for nature walk

♥ Handcraft...
- embroidery
- paper craft

♥ Cathecism...
- listen to readings for Sunday
- Mummy reads Maria Montessori Mass book
Work Hard Girls ☺☺
♥♥♥

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♥Moran and Myffwyn's Daily Plans and Activities:

♥PRAYER LIFE...
- learn to say morning and evening prayers
- Angelus
- Divine Mercy Chaplet
- Rosary

♥ CATECHISM..
- learn the basic prayers of by heart
- Maria Montessori's Mass book
- CGS presentation
- Bible: Mummy read and you draw
♥ MATHS...
- circle time...singing, finger plays, memory work
- Christopherus First Grade ....work through
- Dorrothy Harrer.....work through
- Oak Meadow....work through
- Saxon Maths... work through
- Gnomes and Gnumbers....work through
- First Lesson in Numbers
- other books such as...Cuisinaire rods ABC, pentomioes, etc
- Montessori maths activities
- Form drawing
-counting : using various mediums
shells, stones, jewels, sticks etc
♥ ENGLISH....
- Original Farm ABC stories and letters made up by Mummy and Autumn
- Christopherus first grade
- Lessons in English ...Dorothy Harrer
- Waldorf alphabet books and cards
- sand paper letters
- drawing letters in corn meal
- chalkboard letters
- tracing Jan Brett letters
- CHC learning to read
- matching games
- any other Montessori activities
- cutting, matching glueing etc
- card games
- practical life activities
- puzzles
- the Ruth Beechick little three books
- Waldorf homeschooling Grade 1... Melissa Nielson
- learn poem (test on Friday)
- learn memory verse (test on Friday)
- Copy work
- Voyages in in Language
- listen to stories being read aloud approx 30 mins each day

♥ NATURE AND SCIENCE....
- Mummy Read Nature book
- Mummy Read Animal book
1. Draw picture of animal or from nature book
2. Label picture and/or write a short sentence
- Science experiment from book 1x week

♥ BOTANY...
-Mummy Read about the flower fairies from Mrs Applebee
1. Draw the plant
2. Label plant
3. Copy short sentence
♥ UNIT STUDY...
- do assigned parts of Unit study as directed by Mummy

♥ GEOGRAPHY...
Listen to any reading
1. Draw or colour

♥ CRAFT...
- any craft we choose.
- embroidery sewing
- finger knitting

♥ ART AND MUSIC...
- Acorn Grove submission
- Listen to weekly Music Appreciation CD
- Do the weekly Art lesson
- Colouring in
- Drawing pictures

♥♥♥

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