Indian Unit Study

♥Resources:
-America's Faascinating Indian Heritage
-American Girl Books: Kaya
-Welcome to Kaya's World
-Two Little Savages
-Ernest Thompson Seton's Big Book of Country Living (BBCL)
-Lewis and Clark Activity book

♥Library Books:
-Focus on aztecs and Incas-Chloe Sayer
-DK: Aztecs the fll of the Aztec Capital- Richard Platt
-Native Anericans(Peoples under threat)- Helen Edmunds
-Life in the time of Moctezuma and he Aztecs- Roy Burrell
-Find out about Plains Peoples- Hamish Hamilton




♥Novels:
-Saint Issac and the Indians
-Father Marquette and the Great Rivers
-Katiri Tekakwitha
-Calico Captive
-Brave Buffalo Fighter
-Standing in the light
-The Journal of Jessie Smoke
-Nacar the White Deer
-Brothers of the Heart
-The Matchlock Gun
-The Courage of Sarah Noble
-Island of the Blue Dolphins
-Day Crockett
-The Education of Little Tree
-The Last of the Mohicans
-White Calf
-The Indian in the Cupboard Series
-The Sign of the Beaver
-Squanto: Friend of the Indians



♥Picture Books;
-The Huron carol
-A Virgian Indian
-Daily life in a covered Wagon
-Let's look inside a tepee
-The Indian Paintbrush
-The legend of the Pointsetti
-Pocahonta
-Red fox and his Canoe
-Tapenum's Day
-Indian Summer
-The Boy who lived with Seals
-The boy who sailed with Columbus
-Boat Ride with Lilian Two Blossom


♥Videos:-
-Pocahontas
-Davy Crockett
-They died with their boots on
-The Indian in the Cupboard



♥Activities:
-mapping of:
season route of travel
how they Indians migrated throug the year if any
how they were moved along by expansion
individual mapping of indian territories
-make a teepee
-make wigwam
-make mochasins
-make bow and arrows(for dolls)
-make tomahawk
-make a paper doll and clothes for a particular tribe
OR
for various tribes
--make indian head dress
--desigh a shield design
-Research the different tribes and learn about them
-where different tribes lived and how they were affected by the expansion of settlers
-religion of the indians
-how

-Tracking of animals. Identify various tracks
-bird identifacation.
-make a totem pole.
-make a talking stick.
-research buffalo
-research the types of food either caught or foraged
-Is this different dependent on area of living.
-was there harmony or enmity amongst the tribes.
-heirachy of the tribes, was this the same for all.

-keep a nature journal
-What was the influence of the different Europeon peoples on each of the tribes.
-How did the Gold rush affect the tribes
-what effect did the 'reservations' have on the Indian tribes
-How do the modern Indians live now and still remember their history
-Research songs, dances and ceremonies (BBCL)
-Research signaling and Indian Signs (BBCL)
-research the health and woodland medicines used by Indians (BBCL)
-Read "Campfire Stories of Indian Character" (BBCL)

-How did exploration affect the Indian culture
-Colouring pages from various sources
-write and illustrate a picture book
-Learn and play some Indian games (BBCL)
-'wood craft':learn how to survive in the bush:
what to take, what towear, food to take. Basic camping 101 (see Bush boys stuff and Scouting manuals as well as BBCL)
--make a wooden Indian family OR felt OR make from other materials

Blessings,

Pentecost Plans

♥♥ Pentecost(Whitsun) was the name given to a Jewish agricultural festival to indicate that it took place on the fiftieth('pente"-five)day after Passover. It was on this day that the twelve disciples of Jesus(now including Mathias in place of Jesus) met with Mary, the mother of Jesus, and others. While the disciples were "all with one accord in one place...there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing wind."(Acts2:2.) A powerful current gathered up the disciples as if on the in-breath of God, and, taken hold of by this divine inspiration, they became aware of "cloven tongues like as of fire" which "sat upon each of them." The story goes on to recount that the twelve were "filled with the Holy Ghost" and were able to speak on such a way that "every man heard them...in his own language."♥♥♥from All Year Round

Plans for the Day♥♥♥
♥♥Readings for Pentecost Year B


♥Books♥
Tell the story from the Betty Lukins book using the Felt board and characters
-Read the New Catholic Picture Bible
-The Very First Christians
-IBelieve: The Nicene Creed
-The Apostles of Jesus

♥Activities and Crafts♥
-Blow up a heap of Ballons and then release them to fly like the Holy spirit.
-Make a Whitsun couple ♥The Nature Corner
-Make Mary and the Apostles from wooden people or needle felt them or sew felt them
-Make Whitsun dove mobile ♥The Childrens Year
-Flying Rice bags!and Streamers! ♥The Childrens Year
-Butterflies ♥The Childrens Year
-Make some bookmarks:
-dove shape with a red ribbon and put the gift of the spirit on one wing, and fruit of the spirit on the other
-Whitsun dove wings ♥All Year round
-Fairy streamers ♥All Year Round

-Do some of the activities and colouring in from the list below.

♥♥"From the earliest centeries, the dove has been used as a symbol of the Holy Spirit. The symbolism was inspired by the Gospel report of Christ's baptism and is still popular today. From medieval times on, in many parts of central and eastern Europe, the people hung artfully carved and painred wooden doves over the dining table as a constant reminder to the family to venerate the Holy Spirit." ♥Catholic Traditions in the Home and Classroom

♥All Seasons Wreath♥
-add yellow and red streamers to the doves we made for Ascension
-make sure the Family altar cloth is red

♥Cooking♥
-make bread dough and make into a dove shape
-Make a cake and ice with white cream, draw a dove shape and have 7 rays coming out from the dove (representing the 7 gifts of the Holy spirit)
and surround the cake with 12 strawberries (representing the 12 Apostles and the Fruits of the Holy Spirit).

♥Table Decorations♥
-Red table cloth with little cut out doves sprinkled on top
-Large Candle in middle as centre piece with small candles and white flowers around
-In centre of the table have a basket of plastic fruit with a 'fruit of the spirit' tied on it. At the end of the meal have everyone take turns to pick a fruit.
This fruit will be the virtue to work on during the year.
-Dove shape placemats
-At each place have:
-a cookie with a red lifesaver stuck on in the middle and a red candle in the middle ♥The Year and our Children

♥Main Meal♥
Fried Chicken, mashed potatoe, and green veges
-if we can a 12 fruit salad ♥Catholic Cuisine

♥♥"In England, the day of Pentecost is known as Whitsun, or Whitsunday, meaning 'white-Sunday.' It has long been a tradition to wear white on this day, perhaps as an acknowledgement of the purity of the spirit, perhaps as a reminder of the moment of joining in the Church community at Baptism and Confirmation." ♥All Year Round

♥Colouring Pictures♥
--colouring page
--other colouring Pictures from Catholic mom
-ascension colour pic
-stained glass colouring pic
-dove colour pic
-dove flying colouring pic

♥Enjoying Nature♥
-once again kite flying with the kites made on Ascension
-Bubbles
-use the streamers made from Ascension
-put butterflies made above on sticks like streamers and run as well.
-look and identify birds in backyard or area


♥Heap of Pentecost ideas:♥

-Lots of ideas
-Catholic Mom ideas
-Holy Spirit
-Symbols of the Holy Spirit
-More Pentecost ideas
-Gifts of the holy spirit
-Pentecost Puzzles:
-Pentecost song:

♥OTHER IDEAS♥

-Family activites
-Pentecost Play

- Teacher Planet resource page for Pentecost
--Work sheet
--Pentecost spinner

--Pentecost crossword
--Pentecost decoder
--Pentecost word jumble
--Pentecost word search
--twelve disiples word search

--Holy Spirit mobile

--More word searches

Blessings,

Daily Plans Friday

♥♥ List of Days Activities

♥ Breaky stuff

♥ Assigned time with younger children

♥ Math- see attached
♥ English- see attached
♥ Science- read and narrate from assigned book
♥ Italian- listen and use words in daily conversation
♥ Handcraft- RIT or assigned craft
♥ Read Ruth Heller- narrate

♥ Indian Unit Study- work from the list of activites and books
1. Read a chapter from novel
2. Read Information book and report on and/or
3. Read resource book and report on
4. Read a picture book
5. Do and activity

♥♥ Testing:
- Spelling
- Dictation
- Copywork
- Times Tables
- Poetry

♥Journal and Information time
♥ Assigned Reading


♥ Exercise- 1/2 hour walk
- weight routine

♥ Morning devotions and prayer time
♥ 12 noon Angelus
♥ 3pm Divine Mercy

♥ Night routine
-Rosary and bile reading
-Read aloud
-Night prayers

Go Guys! Work Hard ☺ ☺

Maths

♥ Waldorf maths using these resources
--Math Lessons for Elementary Grades
--An easy start in Arithmetic
--Second Grade Curriculum Mathmatics ♥Christoperus Resources
--Figure it out series 1-5
--Simply Numbers
--Lessons in Numbers
--A path of discovery♥ Math sections for 1-4
--Take shapes lines and numbers
--Oak Meadow♥ 1-3 Maths sections
--A little flower Garden ♥ 1&4 grade Math sections
--
--still need to add some titles


♥ Form Drawing
-- using Christopherus Form drawing book
♥ www.mathematics.com.au
♥ Speed Maths for Kids

♥ Various on line math sheets

♥ Read various Picture books from Math Baskets:
Basket 1♥♥♥♥♥♥♥



























After this lot Math Basket 2 etc

♥ Making Maths more fun book
-- Use the sheets from this
♥ Card games, Board Games etc

Blessings,

Enjoying the Journey through May

Faith:

The Month of Our Lady
St Joseph the Worker (1st)
Finding of the Holy Cross (3rd)
Blessed Damien of Molokai (10th)
Our Lady of Fatima (13th)
Ascension of Our Lord (21st)
Mary Queen of the Apostles (23rd)
Our Lady Help of Christians (24th)
Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (30th)
The Feast of the Visitation (31st)
Pentecost (31st)

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Homemaking:

Create meal plans for the month
Use Autumn themed foods for the month.
Have cleaning routine working efficiently
Clean the kitchen chairs
Have boots cleaned/polished weekly before Church
Keep the car tidy

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Crafts:

Make a crown for Mary and have a May Crowning
Make Whitsunday couple from The nature corner
Make Whitsun doves for Pentecost
Make windmills and kites for Ascension
Make an Autumn Fairy
Make gnomes
Make an apple drying rack
Dry apples on home made rack
Make felted acorns and pumpkins

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Nature:

Harvest fair
Collect Autumn leaves
Do leaf rubbings
Do bark rubbings
Have a bonfire
Observe migrating bird life
Watch for Winter preparations in animals behaviour
Go for an Autumn walk on the beach and collect nature finds

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Goals:
Early rising FOR ALL
Have all preparation for lessons done the night before.
Read to little ones first and get them organised for the day
Re-introduce circle time for little ones
Use Montessori activities daily
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

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Rituals:

Have "the bookcase" set up with theme for the month -- Our Lady
Daily Rosary
Keep family altar fresh
Keep the Autumn Seasons table interesting and tidy
Have sit down together lunch
Read Bible and have read aloud time at night
Weekly cooking day of goodies
Tea time once a month with dressed up clothes and poetry
Monthly "Show time"

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Learning:

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
Read from the Autumn season basket
Finish Pirate study
Confirmation Preparation
Use nature Journals frequently
Learn Autumn poems
Paint weekly
Learning for little ones
Catechism of the Good Shepherd presentations
Research about herbal medicines
Keep up with Math and English lessons

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Special Days:

May Day celebrations; cake and maypole and games (1st)
Our Wedding Anniversary (2nd)
Rogan's Birthday (3rd)
Mothers Day (10th)
Morans's Birthday (22nd)
Arwen's Baptism (24th)
Myffwyn's Baptism anniversary

Visit from Mama and Papa
Visit from Erin for Arwen's Baptism

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Enjoy your Month
Blessings



P.S. I have had my monthly learning agenda in my folder system for some time now.
Now I am blogging I will put them here as well.
I have in the past used Dawn's ideas as a starting point.
As we are in the Southern Hemisphere, often Liturgical and Seasonal cycles don't match as they do in the Northern Hemisphere and I often wanted someone to do a Southern version of Dawn's. This I guess is mine.
Since blogging I also liked the simpler presentation from Emma and have imitated that here.

English

♥ Assigned Reading as well as free reading
-- a record must be kept of each book read

♥ Assigned Reading consists of
-- Saints
-- History
-- Classic
-- Nature or Science
-- Australian History
-- GA Henty
-- Unit Study Rading x2
-- Information type eg, Volcanoes

♥ Rotation of these over 5 weeks:
-- Emma Serle Week 1
-- Fairy Tale Writing Series Week 2
-- Voyage in Language or Literature Week 3
-- Write and Edit own Stories or edit text that has been approved by Mum Week 4
-- Stories of the Saints 1&2 Week 5

♥ Spelling from spelling book or dictionary
--choose at start of week and tested on Friday

♥ Typing
-- Use typing for dummies


♥ Poetry
-- New poem each week
-- Write in poetry book
-- memorise to recite on Friday
-- illustrate poem in book

♥ Copy work
--from selected pieces of literature

♥ Cursive
-- Various sections of set work will be done in cursive


♥ Ruth Heller
-- Read through books and make main lesson books from the reading

Blessings,

Bible History

♥ Our Young Folks Josephs (Monday and Tuesday)
--read 2 chapters per time

♥ Schuster bible History (Monday and Tuesday)
--read 1 chapter at a time
--answer questions


♥ Covenant Theology based on Wildflowers and Marbles ideas
-make bible story characters and present 'play'
♥ Betty Lukins felt Board stories
-do these each week for Sunday Mass
♥ Read Catholic childrens Bible for little ones
--draw and or narrate the story into Bible notebooks
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Blessings,

Australian History

♥ Australian Knowledge series of books-- Read and Narrate
--written and drawing
--one book per week
♥ The book of Australian towns
-- choice one town and research over 2 weeks
--use on line information for up to date statistics as well

♥ Read Alouds
--Worlds End was Home
--Escape from Murray River
♥ Read a selection of chapter books of own choice
--record summary after completed

♥ Read and do mini research unit studies on the Australina picture books we own
--list ot follow
--progamme time to follow as well


Blessings,

Plans for Ascension Day

Ascension Day:
"Easter week and the days thereafter are ones of happiness and Christian Joy in the life of the risen Lord. Although the Church includes the Feast of Pentecost int the Liturgical season of Easter, Ascension Day is actually the feast that terminates the events of the Saviours life on earth.
This feast has been celebrated since the earliest Christian times, and by the fourth century had spread to throughout the entire Christian world of that time.
It was an old European custom to eat a bird on that day because Christ had 'flown' to Heaven. In Western Germany, bakers gave their customers pieces of patry made in the shapes o fvarious birds. In England, the day was celebrated with games, dancing and horse races. In Central Europe, families went hiking and on picnics."--Catholic Traditions in the Home and Classroom.♥

Plans for the day ♥♥♥

♥ Books:
Read from the bible about Ascension and to the little ones from The Catholic Picture Bible.

♥ Take down the Large crosses from the hill.

♥ Activities and Crafts:
--Make a kite from various materials- cross frame with paper or plastic cover.
--Make a flying Streamer bag-- All Year round.
--Home made wind mills with coloured paper on stick.
--Make a parachute out of hanky or small piece of fabric , tie to the parachute a small figure, ie a small gnome or other wooden figure and drop over balcony.
--Make a butterfly mobile from tissue paper and pipe cleaners-- The Children's Year.
--Wrap streamers of ribbon around a piece of dowel, glue well, and let children run with them-- The Children's Year
--Dove Mobile Spiral -- The Children's Year.
--Blow bubbles with bubble wands with home made bubble mix and wands.
-- Blow up ballons and have ballon races or just batting them around.

--Colour in Ascension day picture and dove colouring picture.
--Or fill in dove shape with scrunched up tissue/crepe paper.
--Felted picture using fleece and either place on as in Magic wool or dry felt a picture.

♥All Seasons Wreath:
--Fluffy clouds and doves floating around using some of the activities crafts.

♥ Enjoying Nature:
--Have a kite flying contest with the kites made and an outdoor picnic/afternoon tea.
--Run around with steamers made from above.
--Lay down and just watch the cloud movement.

♥ Cooking:
--Make a dove cake: cut out dove shape using a picture of a dove from a slab cake or make slab cake and put dove shape on top with white cream on chocolate background.
--Dove cookies from cutouts again. Ice with white icing or trace like gingerbread cookies at Christmas.
--Cook meringue's as they are really light and could represent air or clouds.

♥ Main meal:
--Chicken probably Apricot with white rice and ice cream for sweets.


♥ Table decorations:
--Green tablecloth with glitter and stars on the cloth.
"The stars on the green cloth show the connection we now have between heaven and earth because of Jesus' ascension. The flowers show that Jesus' words and works are flowering even now on earth."-- The big book of Catholic Customs and traditions. ♥
--Place mats of cloud formations, printed out and laminated.
--Place cards of cotton wool with each persons name on it.
--Laminated book mark of the Ascension.
--Statue of Divine Mercy, Sacred Heart, and Good Shepherd, Circle this with flowers.

Blessings,

Liturgical year

♥ Catholic Mosaic
♥ Daily saints book
♥ Moira's Manuals
♥ CGS resource books
♥ Carol Roth information
♥ The Mass explained to children
♥ Resources from my own folder system

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This is still in progress



Blessings,